Let It Bleed
Composers: Mick Jagger &
Keith Richards
Recording
date: March-July
1969
Recording location: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
Producer:
Jimmy Miller
Chief engineer: Glyn
Johns
Performed onstage: 1981-82,
1995,
1997-98, 2002-03, 2006-07, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2021,
2024
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Slide electric guitar: Keith Richards
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Piano: Ian Stewart
Autoharp: Bill Wyman
Well we
all need someone we can lean on
And if
you want it, well you can lean on me
Yeah we all need someone we can lean on
And if
you want it, well you can lean on me
She
said My breasts, they will
always be open, baby
You can rest your weary head right on me
And there will always be a space in my
parking lot
When you need a little coke and sympathy
Yeah
we all need someone we can dream on
And if
you want it, baby, well you can dream on me
Yeah we
all need someone we can cream on
Yeah, and
if you want to, well you can cream on me
I
was dreaming of a steel guitar engagement
When you
drank my health in scented jasmine tea
She
knifed me in my dirty, filthy basement
With that
jaded, faded, junky nurse - oh, what pleasant company, ha
Come
on, we all need someone we can feed on
Yeah, and
if you want it, well you can feed on me
Hey,
take my arm, take my leg
Oh baby,
don't you take my head
Yeah we
all need someone we can bleed on
Yeah, and
if you want it, baby, well you can bleed on me
Yeah we
all need someone we can bleed on
Yeah,
yeah, and if you want it, baby, why don't you bleed on me all
over?
Yeah
Come on, get it
Ah
ah, get it on, rider
Get it
on, rider
Get it
on, rider
You can
bleed all over me
Yeah,
get it on, rider
Get it
on, rider
Yeah, you
can be my rider
You can
come all over me
Ah
get it on, rider, baby
Get it
on, rider
Get it
on, rider
You can
come all over me
Yeah...
Come
on, get it on, rider, let it come all over me
Yeah,
yeah...
Get it on, rider
Get it on, rider
TrackTalk
Let it bleed was just one line in that song
Mick wrote. It became the title (of the album) ... we just
kicked a line out. We didn't know what to call that song. We'd
gone through Take my arm, take my leg and we'd done the
track. We dug that song...
- Keith Richards, 1971
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