Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards Recording date: March-June
1989 Recording locations: Air
Studios, Montserrat, Virgin Islands & Olympic Studios, London,
England Producers: Chris
Kimsey& The Glimmer
Twins
Chief engineer:
Christopher
Marc Potter
Mixer: Chris Kimsey
Performed onstage: 1989-90, 2016
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts Bass: Bill Wyman Electric guitars:
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
& Ron Wood Lead vocals: Mick
Jagger Background vocals: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards, Sarah
Dash,Lisa Fischer&Bernard Fowler Piano: Chuck
Leavell Organ: Chuck
Leavell Keyboards/synthesizer Matt
Clifford Brass: The
Kick Horns Shakers: Mick
Jagger Percussion: Luis
Jardim
Button your lip,
baby, button your coat Let's go out dancing,
go for the throat
Let's bury the hatchet, wipe out the past
Make love together, stay on the path
You're not the only one with mixed emotions
You're not the only ship adrift on this ocean
This coming and going is driving me nuts
This to-ing and fro-ing is hurting my guts
So get off the fence now, you're creasing your butt
Life is a party, let's get out and strut, yes
You're not the only one with mixed emotions
You're not the only ship adrift on this ocean
You're not the only one that's feeling lonesome
You're not the only one with mixed emotions
You're not the only one
You're not the only one
Let's grab the world by the scruff of the neck
And drink it down deeply and love it to death
So button your lip, baby, button your coat
Let's go out and dancing, let's rock and roll, yes
You're not the only one with mixed emotions
You're not the only ship adrift on this ocean
You're not the only one that's feeling lonesome
You're not the only one with mixed emotions
Mixed emotions - mixed emotions, yeah
You're not the only one
You're not the only one - you better stick, stick it together, yeah
You're not the only one - you better stick, stick, stick it together
You're not the only one
- I want to paddle, yeah, paddle (...) with my feet You're not the only one - yeah, fooling around, kicking and dancing
You're not the only one - you, you, you, the only one... (...)
Whoo!
TrackTalk
I wrote this very early on in the
session with
Mick in Barbados. People always accuse me of intending some sort of pun
here, you know "Mick's demotion", but it isn't true.
-
Keith Richards, 1993
I thought about
(the lyrics' meaning) afterwards.
I was coming back from a session, my old lady, Patti, had just arrived,
and I drove over to see her. And I told her how strange it felt,
because
it suddenly occurred to me that there was infinite room there for
subliminal
subjection. I realized what we'd laid down there had all the
ingredients
of an interesting autobiography.
-
Keith Richards, 1989
A good song
this, but it's very hard to do
onstage. You go from the really hard verse to the very melodic chorus,
which I like, but you always feel like you're not going to pull it off,
like it's speeding up.