Wired All Night

Composer: Mick Jagger
Recording date: December 1991-September 1992
Recording locations: Olympic Studios, London, England; S.I.R. Studios & Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Rick Rubin & Mick Jagger      Chief engineer: David Bianco


Probable line-up:

Drums: Curt Bisquera
Bass: John Pierce
Rhythm electric guitars: Jimmy Rip, Frank Simes, Brendan O'Brian & Mick Jagger
Lead electric guitar: Jimmy Rip
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Lynn Davis, Jean McClain & Jeff Pescetto
 

One, two - one, two...

You go squeeze in your dress and go and strap on your boots
I'm going to sharpen my nails and primp up real cute
I'm going to smoke up a storm and step into the night
I'm getting ready to burn, I'm getting ready to fly

I said, hey, are you shooting to kill?
Hey, would I tell you a lie?
We'll be slamming tequilas, popping hydrogen
And lose the coils and the kinks that are wrecking my life

Give me a drink, don't be talking so much
You're a pain in the butt
How can I think when you puke up your guts?
I'll be juiced in this stuff

We'll be wired all night
We hit the high life
Yeah, we'll be wired all night
We hit the high life

Watch me now

You blew Jellyface Joe and Pedro the pimp
I'm as hard as a brick, I hope I never go limp
Is the earthquake shaking? Is there going to be war?
Tell the National Guard to mind the grocery store

I said, hey, and I don't give a hoot
Hey, I need some earthly delights
I'll be drowning my sorrows, banging my box
Till the sirens start singing and I'm ready to fly

Give me a drink, don't be talking so much
You're a pain in the butt - all right
How can I think when you puke up your guts?
I'll be juiced in this stuff

We'll be wired all night
We hit the high, high, high, high life
Yeah, we'll be wired all night - (...)
Yeah, we hit the high life

Yeah

Hey

Give me a drink, don't be talking so much
You're a pain in the butt
How can I think when you puke up your guts?
I'll be juiced in this stuff - (...)
I, I, I
I'll be kicked in the nuts

We'll be wired all night
Yeah, we hit the high, high, high, high life
Mercy, wired all night
Yeah, we hit the high, high, high, high life

Yeah

Yeah, we hit the high, high, high, high, high life - now I've got you
Wild, wild, wild nights - what's that? Yeah
High, high, high, high, high life

Yeah

 
 

TrackTalk

That was my idea (to start the record with more familiar-sounding songs). I supposed you could start it with something more unusual. But sometimes it's good to start with things that are more familiar and go off slightly, rather than starting off weird and going straight later.

- Mick Jagger, December 1992

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