Rough and Twisted

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards (& possibly Andrew Watt)
First release: limited edition single, April 2026
Recording date: April-May 2025
Recording location: Metropolis Studios, London, England
Producer: Andrew Watt               Never performed onstage






Probable line-up:

Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: Darryl Jones
Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Mick Jagger
Slide electric guitar: Ron Wood 
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
Piano: Ben Waters


 
Yeah, why don't you drive me
Down that rough and twisted road?
Why don't you guide me
'Cause I don't know which way to go?

Promise to take me
Yeah, to where the water glows
Somewhere, somewhere down in Puerto Rico
Where the tide just ebbs and flows

Flash me all your jewelry
Poetry and friends
Promise me a dance like Nijinsky
Nothing, nothing, nothing but a false pretense

Yes, all you feed me
is just rancid rice and bones
All I drank was muddy water
As lonely as a saxophone

Why don't you take me
To where I want to to go?
To Natchez, Mississippi
Sicily and Rome

You just took me to a flyblown town
In the back of nowhere
Smell was acrid and toxic
Couldn't breathe the air

The only club was called Conspiracy
They didn't like me much
What they wanted was tyranny
And all that crazy, crazy, fucked up stuff

Why don't you drive me
Take me where you want to go?
Yeah, why don't you take me
Down that rotten, twisted road?
Why don't you teach me
Teach me all those foreign tongues?
Yeah, why don't you teach me
'Cause I'm deaf and blind and dumb?

Yeah, drive me
Yeah, drive me
Where I want to go - drive me
Take me where I want to, take me where I want to
Take me where I want to go

 

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It's one of those that can creep up on you, and you get so excited doing it.

- Mick Jagger, 2026
 
 
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