It
Means a Lot
Composers: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Recording date: August 1987-May 1988
Recording locations: Le
Studio, Montreal, Canada; various studios, New York City, USA; Bermuda Sound
Recording Studios, Bermuda;
Air Studios, Montserrat; Atlantic
Studios & The Hit Factory, New York City, USA
Producers: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Chief engineer: Don
Smith
Line-up:
Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: Charley
Drayton
Acoustic guitars: Waddy
Wachtel
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards
Slide electric guitar: Waddy
Wachtel
Lead vocal: Keith
Richards
Background vocals: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Keyboards: Ivan
Neville
Tell by her movements
A flick of the hand
You know where you stand
What does it mean?
It means a lot
Uh-huh
Oh yeah, ah-heh
What does it mean?
Tell me
Tell from a distance
Tell from a glance
(It means a lot)
Tell by the way she dance (It means a lot)
Leave me be (It means a lot)
Call it love
Takes two (It means a lot)
What does it...? (It means a lot)
It takes two
Uh-huh
If she is shy
If she should blush
(It means a lot)
That should tell you enough
(It means a lot)
We'll call it love (It means a lot)
Takes two, baby (It means a lot)
Oh, what does it do for you?
Does the same thing for me
Trial by jury, trial by judge
Get this thing out of court, let's call it love
What does it mean? (It means a lot)
Ah yeah
Hey - yeah
Call it affection
We call it love
(It means a lot)
Heaven's above (It means a lot)
Ooh (...) (It means a lot)
Takes two (It means a lot)
Yeah (It means a lot)
Ooh!
Ain't no illusion, baby
Can you get a little lie
That means (...)
(It means a lot)
(It means a lot)
(It means a lot)
(It means a lot)
That means a lot
Don't get too excited, baby
Before the facts
Shucks
TrackTalk
(T)he song's got a weird structure to it. Everyone
was getting off on that. That was all me on that. Waddy's on acoustic.
But that effect is all deliberate. The only way to make that song work
was to shift it all around and... the more I did, the more confident I
felt about doing things like that.
-
Keith Richards, 1988
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