Kow Tow

Composers: Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart
Recording date: January-May 1987
Recording locations: Blue Wave Studios, Barbados & Right Track Studios, New York City, USA
Producers: Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart       Chief engineers: Ed Stasium, Manu Guiot & Jon Bavin


Probable line-up:

Drums: Simon Phillips
Bass: Dean Garcia
Rhythm electric guitars: Mick Jagger & G. E. Smith
Lead electric guitar: Jeff Beck
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Backing vocals: Mick Jagger, Cindy Mizelle, Craig Derry, Jocelyn Brown & Brenda King
Keyboards/synthesizers: Patrick Seymour, Phil Ashley & Richard Cottle
Autoharp: Mick Jagger
Saxophone: David Sanborn
Gamelans: Ernst Hanes
 

And I just don't do things by halves
So come now please don't make me laugh
The wicked lay stones in my path
And friends who are snakes in the grass

I feel the warmth of you
In summer days gone by
The waves they rock the boat
You smiled at me and closed your eyes

I won't bow down
I won't kow tow
Won't be seen to
Won't be lied to

I won't turn tail
Won't be blackmailed
By you

And I can see through you like glass
So come now please don't make me laugh

I hear the country church bells
Ring for you
I see the church choir rise
And sing for you

But I'll be leaving soon
I'm off at high noon
I've got a heavy heart
We touch a long past

Cause
I won't bow down
I won't kow tow
Won't be seen to
Won't be lied to


I won't turn tail
Won't be blackmailed

But if you think of me
Think something sweet of me

(La-la, la-la-la, la-la)

(La-la, la-la-la, la-la)

So listen

I look around in rage
There's nothing left, there's nothing saved
Some memories, a photograph
The future looms, so damn the past

I don't want you
I don't need you
I won't bow down
I won't kow tow

I won't turn tail
Won't be blackmailed
Won't be seen to
I won't be lied to

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