The Rolling Stones : Their Satanic Majesties Request

Rock / United-Kingdom
(1967 - Decca)
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1. SING THIS ALL TOGETHER




Why don't we sing this song all together

Open our heads let the pictures come

And if we close all our eyes together

Then we will see where we all come from


Pictures of us through the steamy haze

Picture of us painted in our place


Why don't we sing this song all together

Open our heads let the pictures come

And if we close all our eyes together

Then we will see where we all come from


Why don't we sing this song all together

Open our heads let the pictures come

And if we close all our eyes together

Then we will see where we all come from


Pictures of us beating on our drum

Never stopping til the rain has come


Why don't we sing this song all together

Open our heads let the pictures come

And if we close all our eyes together

Then we will see where we all come from



2. CITADEL





Men are armed shout who goes there

We have journeyed far from here

Armed with bibles make us swear


Candy and Taffy, hope we both are well

Please come see me in the citadel


Flags are flying, dollar bills

Round the heights of concrete hills

You can see the pinnacles


Candy and taffy, hope we both are well

Please come see me in the citadel


In the streets are many walls

Hear the peasants come and crawl

You can hear their lovers call


Candy and Taffy, hope we both are well

Please come see me in the citadel


Screaming people fly so fast

In their shiny metal cars

Throug the woods of steel and glass


Candy and Taffy, hope we both are well

Please come see me in the citadel




3. IN ANOTHER LAND





In another land where the breeze and the

Trees and flowers were blue

I stood and held your hand.

And the grass grew high and the feathers floated by

I stood and held your hand.

And nobody else's hand will ever do

Nobody else will do

Then I awoke

Was this some kind of joke

Much to my surprise

I opened my eyes.



We walked across the sand and the sea and

The sky and the castles were blue.

I stood and held your hand.

And the spray flew high and the feathers floated by

I stood and held your hand.

And nobody else's hand will ever do

Nobody else will do

Then I awoke

Was this some kind of joke

Much to my surprise

When I opened my eyes.



We heard the trumpets blow and the sky

Turned red when I accidently said

That I didn't know how I came to be here

Not fast asleep in bed.

I stood and held your hand.

And nobody else's hand will ever do

Nobody else's hand

Then I awoke

Was this some kind of joke

I opened my eyes.

Much to my surprise.



4. 2000 MAN



Well, my name is a number

A piece of plastic film

And I'm growin' funny flowers

In my little window sill


Dont you know I'm a 2000 man

And my kids, they just don't understand me at all


Well my wife still respects me

I really misused her

I am having an affair

With the random computer


Don't you know I'm a 2000 man

And my kids, they just don't understand me at all


Oh daddy, proud of your planet

Oh mummy, proud of your sun

Oh daddy, proud of your planet

Oh mummy. proud of your sun

Oh daddy, your brain's still flashin'

Like it did when you were young

Or do you come down crashin'

Seeing all the things you'd done

All was a big put on


Oh daddy, proud of your planet

Oh mummy. proud of your son

Oh daddy, proud of your planet

Oh mummy. proud of your sun


Oh daddy, proud of your planet

Oh mummy. proud of your sun

Oh daddy, proud of your planet

Oh mummy. proud of your sun


And you know who's the 2000 man

And your kids they just won't understand you at all



5. SING THIS ALL TOGETHER (See What Happens)



Where's that joint?
All right, thank you.

Why don't we sing this song all together?
Open our minds let the pictures come
And if we close all our eyes together
Then we will see where we all come from

Pictures of us spin the circling sun
Pictures of us show that we're all one




6. SHE'S A RAINBOW



Shattered, shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams
Are still surviving on the street
Look at me, I'm in tatters!
I'm a shattered
Shattered

Friends are so alarming
And my lover's never charming
Life's just a cocktail party on the street
Big Apple
People dressed in plastic bags
Directing traffic
Some kind of fashion
Shattered

Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, I'm in tatters
I'm a shattered
Shattered

All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th Avenue
This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)
Work and work for love and sex
Ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success
Does it matter? (Shattered) Does it matter?
I'm shattered.
Shattered

Ahhh, look at me, I'm a shattered
I'm a shattered
Look at me- I'm a shattered, yeah

Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street
And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah
I've been battered, what does it matter
Does it matter, uh-huh
Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm a shattered

Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered
My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan

Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots, huh
Shadoobie, my brain's been battered
My friends they come around they
Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter




7. THE LANTERN


We, on our present life,

Knew that the stars were right.

That if you are the first to go,

You'll leave a sign to let me know,

Tell me so.

Please, carry the Lantern lights.


You crossed the sea of night,

Free from the spell of fright

Your cloak it is a spirit shroud.

You'll wake me in my sleeping hours,

Like a cloud.

So, please, carry the Lantern high.


Me, in my sorry plight,

You waiting ev'ry night.

My face it turns a deathly pale,

You're talking to me, through your veil,

I hear you wail.

So, please carry the Lantern light.


The servants sleep,

The door's are barred.

You hear the stopping of my heart-we never part.

So, please carry the Lantern high



8. GOMPER



By the lake with lilly flowers

Wallow away the evening hours

To and fro she's gently gliding

On the glassy lake she's riding


She swims to the side

The sun sees her dried

The birds hover high

I'd stifle a cry


The birds hover high

She moans with a sigh



9. 2000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME



Sun turning 'round with graceful motion
We're setting off with soft explosion
Bound for a star with fiery oceans

It's so very lonely, you're a hundred light years from home

Freezing red deserts turn to dark
Energy here in every part

It's so very lonely, you're six hundred light years from home

It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home
It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home

Bell flight fourteen you now can land
Seen you on Aldebaran, safe on the green desert sand
It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home

It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home



10. ON WITH THE SHOW



Good evening one and all we're all so glad to see you here

We'll play your favorite songs while you're all soak up the atmosphere

We'll start with old man river, then maybe stormy weather, too

I'm sure you know just what to do

On with the show good health to you


Please pour another glass, it's time to watch the cabaret

Your wife will never know that you're not really working late

Your hostess here is Wendy, you'll find her very friendly, too

And we don't care just what you do

On with the show good health to you


Petina, start the show at 2 o'clock


And if by chance you find that you can't make it anymore

We'll put you in a cab and get you safely to the door

But we've got all the answers, and we've got lovely dancers, too

There's nothing else you have to do

On with the show good health to you


You're all such lovely people dancing gaily round the floor

But if you have to fight, please take your trouble out the door

For now I say with sorrow, until this time tomorrow

We'll bid you all a fond adieu

On with the show good health to you



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