@@jduncanandroidWhat's confusing you is just the nature of my game. I'll tell you one time. You're to blame. Ppl gloss over it so easily but it's quite possibly the most important line of the song.
Dedicated Catholic here. I’ve always read this song as the devil saying essentially: “yeah, I’m around, and I have some influence sometimes, but you guys don’t really need me to help you do evil things-you’re quite good at that on your own.” He seems to stir the pot, and then just become an observer in these horrible historical events. Hence the ironic sympathy part of the title. He doesn’t need it-and wouldn’t value it in any case anyway. 😂
Is the Tooth Fairy and Gandalf the Grey around, too? Shameful for grown-ass adults in the west in the 21st Century to believe such primitive, superstitious bullshit. 🧛♂️
Well said! Exactly so. Also, love for all means all. We take our stink and hide it under our sewers, and then proceed to be so self-righteous as to hate and blame on Lucifer for our misfortunes. Hence, Sympathy for the Devil! A Man of God will forgive All, even the Devil.
Spot on. And it wasn't exactly a new concept when the Stones did this song. It was just presented differently. I was only 15 the first time I heard it. It took me a bit to get it
@davidkirk2639 Ol' scratch has been busy I see. Did he? Or did we? The Devil has no more power than you give him-he is incapable of "making" people do anything. He loves it when we blame our own rottenness on him-and will dive right in to join in the fun. He is "The Great Accuser" after all, he needs to be a witness to it all. Damnation is a choice we make-not God or the Devil.
The Crusades. Allah is one fictional sky-man and the G-JHS threesome is the other. With old Yahweh (the oldest, most primitive superstition) thrown in as well. Great line!
The Hundred Year War was fought between England and France from1337 to 1453. It began when Edward III of England attempted to lay claim to the French throne. It continued intermittently over the next 116 years with truces and cease fires occasionally halting the fighting. France even had to take a break from fighting England to manage an internal revolution in the middle of it.
Back in the day, we listened to the whole album. Don't sleep on Janis Joplin and Big Brother, and Bob Dylan too. Nice to see young people digging the music I grew up with.
Jagger said, "It has a very hypnotic groove, a samba, which has a tremendous hypnotic power, rather like good dance music. It doesn't speed up or slow down. It keeps this constant groove. Plus, the actual samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm (candombe)."
"I'll tell you one time, you're to blame". Genius. Tim Minchin's song "White Wine In The Sun" (which is a moving Christmas song for us Aussies) has lyrics to this point: it's wrong to externalise blame.
As someone well versed in history who grew up Methodist & converted to Catholicism, I always looked at this song as an indictment of humanity for scapegoating the Devil as the cause of humanities dastardly deeds. The Devil may very well have been present & may have even set the table for the atrocities. But WE humans with our own free will chose wickedness over righteousness. Then, WE placed all the blame on the Devil in order to reduce/remove humanity's culpability.
Yes, in each instance, it was man. He's basically telling us, twords the end. Is that the devil is in all of us. As is God. We control which rules us. We have a lot of work to do as a species!
The song has a double entendre, it’s the scope of how politics played its role in times events like Jesus, the Russian Revolution and the Kennedys assassinations.
A history lesson of mans saying the devil made me do it when there is no devil just humans trying to blame their actions on someone else. Who killed the Kennedy's when after all it was you and me and the very last line of the song. "Tell you one time you're to blame says it all. ;
There is an ancient story that goes like this. All humans contain in their souls two tigers that are locked in eternal battle. One tiger represents light and hope; the other darkness and despair. The question is which tiger will win. The answer to that question is simple - the one you feed.
Did I hear you say this dropped in 2018? This song was put out in 1968 right after the assassination of the president, then his brother the presidential candidate and the same year Martin Luther King was murdered. The Vietnam war was at its peak and 2-5 hundred teens were dying in the war weekly, not going willingly most of them but being forced to serve and sent to war if their number was drawn. Rich kids could go to college or pay a doctor to diagnose them with bone spurs on their feet, but the poor and working class had to go. If I misunderstood your statement or mis-heard it, I apologize. (Keith Richard wrote the song, played guitar and bass) Mick Jagger never shook the tag as a devilish figure after this song was released, maybe because he played the role of the devil so well. lol
Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, not the president. JFK was assassinated in 1963😉 I’m pretty sure this song has nothing to do with rich kids getting out of Vietnam war😳
It was after the assassination of Robert Kennedy (1968), his brother President John F Kennedy was assassinated back in 1963. The song has nothing to do with the Vietnam war and the draft.
@@robrobertson4619 Im sure you didnt understand my comment. Every example of the devil used throughout history in the lyrics has to do with assassination and war. The war was raging in Nam when it was written. Riots in the streets and cities being flipped upside down all over the USA because of the draft. To think this song wasnt inspired and meant to vocalize those sentiments misses the point completely. But as with all art its open for interpretation. Maybe its about a biker named lucifer who gets a tattoo so he doesnt forget his name?
As heads is tails. Call me Lucifer. Meaning you've twisted it to not blame yourself. There's no devil. Just people. And people are very very very evil throughout history.
Sorry to say it folkes.... It's an utter mystery to me how people still believe in scribbles written on a stone with a stick 3000 years or more ago. **Every ancient culture had it's own version of a God to explain what they couldn't explain for the lack of Science.** GROW UP and evolve
Try to think this song caters to Those people who believe in god and the devil, calling them out for the hypocrisy in how humans willingness to Not take accountability using these imaginary figures as a scapegoat.
I think I'm right in saying that The Stones are atheists and this song is about the atrocities that humans are capable of inflicting on one another. Setting your world view on the unproven supernatural is nonsensical. All love.
The devil is basically saying of all the sins he has done, man is not that innocent either, man has conspired with me, and has done far worse things, so please have some sympathy on me...
Human culpability. Satan is real but we've got plenty of potential for destruction on our own; "devil made me do it" doesn't cut it. Basically about folks hating accountability. Pretty perceptive for guys that don't seem to be Christian.
If only BeelzaTrump were imaginary! (my apologies to the powers of darkness for that unfair comparison to the severely mentally challenged, clueless president elect!!!)❤
Last verse "Tell you one time, you're to blame". Guess Ol' Son's just calling out mankind.
I always feel like people treat that as a throwaway line, but I feel like it's crucial...
@@jduncanandroidWhat's confusing you is just the nature of my game. I'll tell you one time. You're to blame. Ppl gloss over it so easily but it's quite possibly the most important line of the song.
Actually it's a man calling out other men for creating a scapegoat out of thin air.
Dedicated Catholic here. I’ve always read this song as the devil saying essentially: “yeah, I’m around, and I have some influence sometimes, but you guys don’t really need me to help you do evil things-you’re quite good at that on your own.” He seems to stir the pot, and then just become an observer in these horrible historical events. Hence the ironic sympathy part of the title. He doesn’t need it-and wouldn’t value it in any case anyway. 😂
Is the Tooth Fairy and Gandalf the Grey around, too? Shameful for grown-ass adults in the west in the 21st Century to believe such primitive, superstitious bullshit. 🧛♂️
Well said! Exactly so. Also, love for all means all. We take our stink and hide it under our sewers, and then proceed to be so self-righteous as to hate and blame on Lucifer for our misfortunes. Hence, Sympathy for the Devil! A Man of God will forgive All, even the Devil.
Spot on. And it wasn't exactly a new concept when the Stones did this song. It was just presented differently. I was only 15 the first time I heard it. It took me a bit to get it
Always wondered why god created the devil. Also if god wants us to love him why does he threaten us with eternal damnation if we don't.
@davidkirk2639 Ol' scratch has been busy I see. Did he? Or did we? The Devil has no more power than you give him-he is incapable of "making" people do anything. He loves it when we blame our own rottenness on him-and will dive right in to join in the fun. He is "The Great Accuser" after all, he needs to be a witness to it all. Damnation is a choice we make-not God or the Devil.
i watched for ten decades while you kings and queens fought for the gods they made .......perfect
The Crusades. Allah is one fictional sky-man and the G-JHS threesome is the other. With old Yahweh (the oldest, most primitive superstition) thrown in as well.
Great line!
The Hundred Year War was fought between England and France from1337 to 1453. It began when Edward III of England attempted to lay claim to the French throne. It continued intermittently over the next 116 years with truces and cease fires occasionally halting the fighting. France even had to take a break from fighting England to manage an internal revolution in the middle of it.
Oh yes. This is my favorite Stones song. Thanks and Enjoy.
Listen to the version on Get Yer Ya Yas Out. Charlie's percussions will blow you away. Peace out.
The last line gets missed in all that scat: "I'll tell you one time, you're to blame". The devil never killed anyone; we did.
Correct
Mick Jagger once said in an interview people that recognize him in an airport or on the street typically just go "woo woo" as they're passing.
That guitar! That's something!
Back in the day, we listened to the whole album. Don't sleep on Janis Joplin and Big Brother, and Bob Dylan too. Nice to see young people digging the music I grew up with.
Jagger said, "It has a very hypnotic groove, a samba, which has a tremendous hypnotic power, rather like good dance music. It doesn't speed up or slow down. It keeps this constant groove. Plus, the actual samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm (candombe)."
68 born, my first contact with the stones were the emotional Rescue Album. I loved it
"I'll tell you one time, you're to blame". Genius. Tim Minchin's song "White Wine In The Sun" (which is a moving Christmas song for us Aussies) has lyrics to this point: it's wrong to externalise blame.
I suggest "Paint it Black" next.
As someone well versed in history who grew up Methodist & converted to Catholicism, I always looked at this song as an indictment of humanity for scapegoating the Devil as the cause of humanities dastardly deeds. The Devil may very well have been present & may have even set the table for the atrocities. But WE humans with our own free will chose wickedness over righteousness. Then, WE placed all the blame on the Devil in order to reduce/remove humanity's culpability.
If you know history, you know the Devil is fictional primitive superstition.
Yes, in each instance, it was man. He's basically telling us, twords the end. Is that the devil is in all of us. As is God. We control which rules us. We have a lot of work to do as a species!
Jesus, this should be fun...
This song dropped in 1968, not 2018
The song has a double entendre, it’s the scope of how politics played its role in times events like Jesus, the Russian Revolution and the Kennedys assassinations.
I have a dare for everyone. How many "WOO-WOO's are in this song?
A history lesson of mans saying the devil made me do it when there is no devil just humans trying to blame their actions on someone else. Who killed the Kennedy's when after all it was you and me and the very last line of the song. "Tell you one time you're to blame says it all.
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There is an ancient story that goes like this. All humans contain in their souls two tigers that are locked in eternal battle. One tiger represents light and hope; the other darkness and despair. The question is which tiger will win. The answer to that question is simple - the one you feed.
So sad they missed the meaning of the song :( I do not think you explored every aspect of this masterpiece. Shaking my head.
fire and brimstone by brantley gilbert is the next song you need to react to. it is just beautiful
Did I hear you say this dropped in 2018? This song was put out in 1968 right after the assassination of the president, then his brother the presidential candidate and the same year Martin Luther King was murdered. The Vietnam war was at its peak and 2-5 hundred teens were dying in the war weekly, not going willingly most of them but being forced to serve and sent to war if their number was drawn. Rich kids could go to college or pay a doctor to diagnose them with bone spurs on their feet, but the poor and working class had to go. If I misunderstood your statement or mis-heard it, I apologize. (Keith Richard wrote the song, played guitar and bass) Mick Jagger never shook the tag as a devilish figure after this song was released, maybe because he played the role of the devil so well. lol
Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, not the president. JFK was assassinated in 1963😉 I’m pretty sure this song has nothing to do with rich kids getting out of Vietnam war😳
It was after the assassination of Robert Kennedy (1968), his brother President John F Kennedy was assassinated back in 1963. The song has nothing to do with the Vietnam war and the draft.
@@robrobertson4619 Im sure you didnt understand my comment. Every example of the devil used throughout history in the lyrics has to do with assassination and war. The war was raging in Nam when it was written. Riots in the streets and cities being flipped upside down all over the USA because of the draft. To think this song wasnt inspired and meant to vocalize those sentiments misses the point completely. But as with all art its open for interpretation. Maybe its about a biker named lucifer who gets a tattoo so he doesnt forget his name?
Another train wreck of a reaction i just cant look away
People love to cop out about the nasty things they do, then beg for forgiveness. Just don’t . This is Satan calling us out for blaming him
You believe what you want. But it's Mick Jagger plainly telling you the Devil is phantom of your brainwashing.
I would still eat the smashed candy.
In Lucifer's view or perspective. He caused all the bad in the world but not alone for he had help from us humans.
As heads is tails. Call me Lucifer. Meaning you've twisted it to not blame yourself. There's no devil. Just people. And people are very very very evil throughout history.
yall need to stick with 60s 70s and 80s for awhile....its just so much better
80’s not so much! 🤷🏻♂️
Why those weird video's in between???
Sorry to say it folkes.... It's an utter mystery to me how people still believe in scribbles written on a stone with a stick 3000 years or more ago. **Every ancient culture had it's own version of a God to explain what they couldn't explain for the lack of Science.** GROW UP and evolve
Hear, hear!!
Try to think this song caters to Those people who believe in god and the devil, calling them out for the hypocrisy in how humans willingness to Not take accountability using these imaginary figures as a scapegoat.
Greatest Rock n Roll band ever ✌️
Suffering is caused by our attachment
Not by an imaginary being
Take responsibility……
LIL MAN J PLZ BRO
I think I'm right in saying that The Stones are atheists and this song is about the atrocities that humans are capable of inflicting on one another.
Setting your world view on the unproven supernatural is nonsensical.
All love.
I don't know wtf you're talking about, but I know what Jagger's talking about. Trying to draft off better people is sad.
The devil is basically saying of all the sins he has done, man is not that innocent either, man has conspired with me, and has done far worse things, so please have some sympathy on me...
PLEASE stop showing videos while on pause. So distracting.
WE ARE TO BLAME.......SIMPLE.
Human culpability. Satan is real but we've got plenty of potential for destruction on our own; "devil made me do it" doesn't cut it. Basically about folks hating accountability. Pretty perceptive for guys that don't seem to be Christian.
Ephesians 6:10 (KJV)
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
he is a deceiver, he plays the victim even when the facts are clear he isnt.....sound familiar to something going on today?
It is our attachment not an imaginary being
That causes suffering….
If only BeelzaTrump were imaginary! (my apologies to the powers of darkness for that unfair comparison to the severely mentally challenged, clueless president elect!!!)❤
It's a song about how satan has had his influence over the human race since the beginning of time. Ongoing battle between good and evil 😢
It's really about the evil in men's souls
😂 nope.
Imagine how much greater the Stones could have been if Mick Jagger could freaking sing.
🤣🤣
Imagine how your mom would walk if she didn't have that special night job.
Pretty sure clear and pure vocals is not what Mick Jagger and The Stones have been trying to achieve the last 60 years😳
OL' SCRATCH......HUH, MICK & THE LADS ARE RIGHT.
OUR FAULTS!! DEVIL CANNOT CREATE, CANNOT FORCE. TRICK YA?!! OF COURSE......OUR FAULTS.
REMEMBER, SCRATCH DON'T DO NUTTIN' WITHOUT GODS' OK......