Gimme Shelter - The Damn Truth

Oh, a storm is threat'ning My very life today If I don't get some shelter Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away Ooh, see the fire is sweeping Our very street today Burns like a red coal carpet Mad bull lost its way War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder It's just a shot away It's just a shot away The floods is threat'ning My very life today Gimme, gimme shelter Or I'm gonna fade away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away Kiss away, kiss away

Oh, a storm is threatening My very life today If I don't get no shelter I'm gonna fade away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away Ooh, see the fire is sweepin' Through our very street today Burns like a red coal carpet Mad bull lost its way War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Ooh, the flood is threatening Our very life today Gimme (gimme) Gimme shelter Or I'm gonna fade away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away (It's just a shot away) Ooh, I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away Kiss away, kiss away Love your brother Love your sister Love your neighbour God is love, oh yea, oh yea

They used to put flowers in gun barrels I tried it once and got my face maced And I feel just like a little girl facing a mountain of trolls Armed with only my clothes and my words Voluntary slavery to the debt machine Pirates and politicians are the same thing "Give me your money and you will be saved" You bought your place in heaven don't you wish you were dead? Mama What have you left behind for me? Mama What have you left behind for me? Mama What did you leave behind? I don't want it No There is no point in going back to the sea All the fish are dead we've got a hit on radioactivity Pollution everywhere I can't breathe the goddam air What have you left behind for me? Mama

Alex was my first best friend "Gonna see the world," is what he always said And I begged him, "Take me with you" Alex played guitar and I sang We were gonna be in a rock 'n roll band Dreaming was the only way out Small town and alcohol Our parents sold their goddam souls And we were so angry A single tear from his blue eye As he looked at me and he said goodbye I promised I would never forget Alex said to his dad, "If you ever lay your hands on my mom again, I swear I will kill you, man" Alex came home through the kitchen door Found his mom lying on the floor Then he grabbed that knife His lawyer claimed self-defense But Alex never showed any signs of regret So the judge he said "life" A single tear from his blue eye As he looked at me and he said goodbye I promised I would never forget How we used to ride our bikes down to the lake Write songs about the love we'd make Watch the fire burn deep against the cold We promised right then to never grow old The way the starlight how it hit the waves Just like diamonds shining in a miner's cave We danced naked with no regrets I promised I would never forget

She came in from the desert on a sunny afternoon The devil was among us she was right here in this room And you could cut the air with a knife Drive a stake through her heart But no one is getting out of here Not alive My revolution is in disconclusion Allegations of hope There's no room for people like you and me here We're devilish folk He came in from the ocean with his big green eyes He couldn't stop pretending that he had seen the light But the truth is as bright as the moon You could feel the tension in this room And I would be the first to admit That a broken soul cannot be fixed My revolution is in disconclusion Allegations of hope There's no room for people like you and me here We're devilish folk

Once I was broken You didn't know what to say But just by being there You made it somehow ok I used to turn off the lights And listen to you pray As you begged for peace of mind I just hoped you would stay But forever is coming It's coming to its end Forever is just a dream I had Forever is coming It's coming to its end Forever is just a dream I had I used to be a victim Of cruel hypocrisy You showed me how wrong This world could be And as I stood there staring Straight into the fire My heart was melting In a cool desire Before you judge another Take a look at you're soul Have you yourself become Another brick in the wall Forever is coming It's coming to its end Forever is just a dream I had Peace ain't coming It ain't coming to our beds Peace is just a dream I had Some dream I had

Love is blindness, I don't wanna see Won't you wrap the night Around me Oh, my heart Love is blindness. I'm in a parked car On a crowded street, And I see my love Made complete. The thread is ripping The knot is slipping. Love is blindness. Love is clockworks, And it's cold steel Fingers too numb to feel Squeeze the handle Blow out the candle Blindness Love is blindness I don't wanna see Won't you wrap the night Around me Oh my love Blindness A little death Without mourning No call No Warning Baby, a dangerous idea... Almost makes... sense Love is drowning In a deep well All the secrets And no body else to tell Take the money Why don't you honey Blindness Love is blindness, I'm so sick of it, I don't wanna see Why don't you just take the night And wrap it all around me, now Oh my love Blindness Oh, I'm too numb to feel... Blow out the candle. Blindness.