Too Tight

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: March-July 1997
Recording location: Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don Was & The Glimmer Twins       Chief engineers: Rob Fraboni, Dan Bosworth & Jim Scott
Mixer: Tom Lord-Alge           Never performed onstage

Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Acoustic bass: Jeff Sarli
Electric guitars: Keith Richards (incl. solo), Ron Wood & Waddy Wachtel
Pedal steel guitar: Ron Wood
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Keith Richards, Bernard Fowler & Blondie Chaplin
Piano: Blondie Chaplin
Tambourine: Blondie Chaplin
Percussion: Jim Keltner
 

Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

Baby, don't get too tight with me
Yes, you're far too tight for me

I've got your messages
And how can I resist?

But if you come around
Don't slap the cuffs upon my wrist


Baby you're tight for me - I've got to warn you, girl    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
You're far too tight for me - yeah    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)

Untie those sheep shanks, yeah
And all those fancy knots

I'm not Houdini, honey
Come on now and loosen up
    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)

Tight
Too tight

Too tight

Too tight


Yeah, don't try to reel me in
With all those charm school looks
I've seen it all a thousand times
I sung that song, I wrote that fucking book

Do yourself a favor now
Don't drive me around the block
Let's split another bottle, now
Let's take a hit, loosen up

But don't get too tight with me    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Cause I'm bound so tight I can't breathe    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)

We'll watch the sun go down
Upon the swollen sea
    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
If you try to chain me up
I'll vanish like a broken dream
    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)

Don't get so tight with me
(Tight)
(Too, too tight) Don't get so tight with me
    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
(Too tight) Don't get so tight
(Too, too tight)     (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
(Too tight) Far too tight
(Too, too tight)     (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
(Tight) Don't get tight with me
(Too, too tight) Don't get so tight with me    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
(Too tight) Mm yeah
(Too, too tight) Don't get, don't get so tight    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
(Tight) Mm don't get so tight, yeah
Don't get so, dont get so, don't get so tight with me, yeah
    (Ah ah ah ah ah ah)


 

TrackTalk

I wrote Flip the Switch, and (Mick) had a lot of input on that. Same with Lowdown and Too Tight.

- Keith Richards, September 1997



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