The song was written about the end of Mick Jagger's long relationship with Marianne Faithful. She was in the hospital in Australia while he was filming the movie Ned Kelly when the idea of wild horses not being able to drag him away came to him as he stayed by her bedside. Then, after she fully recovered, the relationship eventually came to an end. And, Jagger wrote the song. It is a sad love song.
In the liner notes to the 1993 Rolling Stones compilation album Jump Back, Jagger states, "I remember we sat around originally doing this with Gram Parsons, and I think his version came out slightly before ours. Everyone always says this was written about Marianne but I don't think it was; that was all well over by then. But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally."
@@John_Chu I thought it was Keith's reply to his (then) little boy, when asked if Dad was going away again? That line anyway. Also Gram had way more to do with this song and how it came out. I love the Burrito's version a bit more actually. Gram's voice is so much sweeter.
I was actually singing this song live when this reaction was filmed. I unfortunately can relate to this more than I thought before. Great reaction...great song...great analysis. 👍
This song for me has always been my favorite Stones soft song, bar none. The lyrics are sublime and the simplicity of the music brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.
The song was recorded in the US in Alabama's Muscle Shoals Recording Studio because it was famous for inspiring a southern sound to bands that recorded there. The whole Sticky Fingers LP was recorded there. Wild Horses has a bit of a country sound as was the goal by the Rolling Stones, then. Many bands recorded albums there because of the sound that came from the studio and the studio musicians that played there. Duane Allman played there with the other studio musicians often for the work before the Allman Brothers Band was created. Aretha Franklin was discovered because of the Muscle Shoals Studio. Duane suggested to Wilson Pickett to sing the Beatles song "Let It Be" which was a huge hit for Mr. Pickett. Duane Allman played the guitar for that song for Mr. Pickett.....
Rolling Stones late 60’s to mid 70’s - best rock music ever produced and IMO will never be duplicated. Their 4 albums: Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street are the best consecutive albums ever produced. That’s why they called them the greatest rock n roll band in the land. 💯
@@Gordy63 Led Zeppelin 1, 2 , 3, 4, or Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers, The Beatles white . Of course interrupted by Yellow Submarine and Magical Mystery Tour but they were only half albums with filling. Then Abbey Road............
@@Gordy63 have to agree with big Pete. Those four are outstanding albums. Sticky fingers/exile particularly. Mick Taylor is for me, the most emotive guitarist out there. Gilmour comes close but it’s a different thing. Taylor and keith together was something really special.
It's not really about swooning it's about reaching a point in a relationship where things have to be said. It's really about looking back on a rocky relationship with a few miles on it and telling his lady that despite everything wild horses couldn't drag him away.
It’s not a typical love song . It’s basically what you might call a dysfunctional relationship. They can’t stay away from each other .. but they probably should
The Rolling Stones have so many songs with country undertones. When you put them all together in a playlist you'll be exposed to a side that most fans don't normally consider. Their catalog incorporates more styles than just about any other band I can think of. It's one of the things that makes them very special. 🤠
Shine a Light is an incredible Rolling Stones song that is also worth a listen. Very soulful and a great tribute song for someone that you love who has passed from this life.
This is definitely not some upbeat love song. It is much deeper and resonates deep in ones soul. The times were tumultuous, not only in the world but in the Stones private lives.
This is one of the best collaborations between Mick and Keith. Keith Richards was writing about the good place he was at in the relationship with his girl friend, with whom he just had his first child, but he had to leave to go on tour with the Stones( hence: Wild horses couldn’t drag him away) but Mick rewrote most the lyrics, and he was at a bad place with his girlfriend who had become addicted to heroin, and had almost died of an overdose. The tension between these two different realities makes the song more interesting.
This tune, like most of the Stones' records, is deeply rooted in the blues so, yes, it's sad, I suppose. Bittersweet is probably a better word to describe it.
Songs, like poetry, don't always have to be sunshine and rainbows. This is a melancholy song about a promising relationship that never reached fruition because "faith has been broken". In this life there are some things you can't take back and so the relationship is doomed from that point. The only path to redemption is to start all over from scratch - maybe in another life - "let's do some living - after we die"
One of my favorite Stones songs. Rather than upbeat and rocky I think of this more at the end of the day when everything is quiet and it’s just you two, holding each other and quietly swaying back and forth.
You can’t cover your own song. The Stones recorded it long before The Burrito’s did as well. The Stones cut it at Muscle Shoals in Alabama in Dec 1969 with Brown Sugar and You Got To Move all of which ended up on Sticky Fingers in 1971. The Burritos cut in in April of 1970
@@flyingburritobro68 as I understand it was written while gram was hanging super tight with Keith and his girlfriend in France at the mansion during the Exile sessions. It’s a Stones song for sure but I think Keith would be the first to say Gram has a legit hand to it.
There's a wonderful B+W video of the guys performing this beautiful track in the studio. For me, it's one of their greatest songs, and that's saying something!
Saw the Stones just once, on the Voodoo Lounge Tour in '94, and this ranks as the #1 highlight (along with the moment when a front-row moll in a strapless leather dress flashed her baps over the gigantic video monitor to the accompaniment of the roll of vintage hotties that was playing as they did "Honky Tonk Women"...which earned an admiring acknowledgement of "Nice pair!" from a smiling Keith afterwards) Anyway, human relationships are complex things filled with hard compromises and self-evident contradictions, and they often end when they shouldn't or linger for entirely too long ---and this ditty captures all of that and then some I speak as one who first heard it 42 years ago when I say that this one gets better with repetition, and there's a really good acoustic live cover of it on here by Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart (as The Lovemongers), joined by the late Chris Cornell on lead vocal, that'd be entirely worth checking out
Keith Richards showed this song to Gram Parsons (The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers). TFBB had a hit with it before the Stones could put it on an album. So when the Stone's version came out, people thought it was a cover. Some people still think Gram Parsons wrote this.
The Sundays cover this song and it's a better version of it. It's featured in the movie FEAR , one of the only examples of the cover is better than the original. Thank you guys for everything!
What gets me in this , every time is just how soulful it is . Beautiful song I’ve always loved . Asia’s face as she listened to the first half ; the heaviness .
Interestingly, there's a country-ish, twangy, southern quality to this song. Just goes to show how deeply embedded American music was for the early British bands. I mean, we know that the early pioneers of r&b and blues influenced them, but this one shows the country influences as well.
@Penderyn I'm not hearing English folk in Wild Horses but perhaps you have some examples you can suggest I check out. As for "American" music, this term generally refers to the modern era of the mid-19th to 21st centuries, most of which has as its foundation, either African or European music. So, no, American music isn't technically "native American", although indigenous cultures in the Americas have a varied and rich musical legacy which may have also been a contributing factor in the music tapestry.
It was said to be written by Gram Parsons and many believe it was because of his friendship with Keith Richards and Gram recorded it first ,his is the original but it is credited to Jagger Richards ..It could have been a Parsons- Richards composition .
Keith Richards wrote this to his daughter, who he missed greatly while constantly being Keef in the '70's...... It's about the guilt he felt being estranged from her while being a rockstar
a little surprised by your reaction - this is from the Sticky Fingers album which i believe to be one of the top 10 best of all time and this is a gutsy heart wrenching ballad - i don't think it's meant to make you feel happy.
More Rolling Stones: Out of Time, Get Off Of My Cloud, Dandelion, Mothers Little Helper, Time Is On My Side, Beast Of Burden. And for something different from the Stomes - Groove to Harlem Shuffle and Emotional Rescue 👍
Well if you grew up in a rural environment like I have you understand wild horses and this song is basically saying he loves the woman so much that wild horses couldn’t drag him away because it’s a very powerful force
This is one of my favorite Rolling Stones song, definitely in my top 3 from them, Asia I agree it does sound depressing, one thing I’m learning from your reactions is that when I was younger we never paid attention to the words and now I’m having more appreciation of these old songs
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I think that the kinda "down vibe" that Asia is referring to is a combination of the minor chords in the song and the slow tempo. Different lyrics could have easily turned this into a depressing song. As it is, it's just a slow, mellow, snuggle song.
My favorite version of this song is Leon Russell's. You all should do some Leon Russell songs, stupid talented. "Tightrope" , "A Song for You" , "Masquerade" , all genius stuff.
My favorite Stones song. He did something to his girl, she is paying him back. He said no matter what she does he's not leaving. Sticky Fingers is the album. Can't You Hear Me Knocking is also on this album. My other favorite Stones song for the music. Kinda funky
The song is about being there for her when she was going through some kind of heartache but, after she got through it, she was showing him the same heartache that he help get her though, but he loved her regardless, telling her the same words, wild horses couldn't drag him away but, she was telling him their relationship was over, he can't accept it, go back and really listen, ASIA has got it, she's listening to the Lyrics ane she can sense something isn't right!
Murder/SUICIDE AT THE END, Telling her that he has his Freedom but, don't have much time, Faith has been Broken, Lets do some living after we Die and, then the lyrics go on to say, Wild Horses couldn't drag him away!
At the beginning, he called her GRACELESS lady, meaning she wasn't appreciating the things he had gotten or, gave to her but, he still loved her and, could not accept that, she was treating him the same way she was being treated, he was wild and grazy over her still but, she no longer felt the same but, he would never treat her unkind etc. The way she was being treated when he came into her life, now she's given him his freedom but, he can not accept it, Wild horses still couldn't couldn't drag him away!!!!
Relationships do have the ups and downs, this song touches a bit on both Asia seems puzzled ,however that may be the beauty of a great song - there is no right or wrong answer ! gotta love it !
Your picture of you stating your going to listen to The Rolling Stones and the song Wild Horses has a picture of Led Zeppelin , oops , oh well , it's definitely one of The Stones mellower songs , yet still a good one . The Stones have a bunch of cool tunes , keep checking them out , and keep on jammin !!!!
For me, this song was also always about the subtext of heroin use - "horse" was slang for heroin back in the day. Yes, its the end of a love affair, but he's saying that he'd even give up this other thing that he loves so much, just for her. This is when Keith Richards had a heroin habit and Mick Jagger was using it "recreationally".
Check out Leon Russell live playing "Jumpin Jack Flash" with George Harrison, Clapton, Ringo Starr!!!. Dripping with pure soul - This is the kind of music you both LOVE!!! It's from the concert for Bangladesh - first major rock benefit in 1971. The entire video is on the other site that posts videos. Leon at 55:30 minutes in
I think this is a song that has to grow on you, it's a slow burn. First the music gets to you, then you can think about the lyrics (tho I never used to, haha!).
To me this song is about love, after the honeymoon period, when there can be issues or problems. No matter what happens I will always love you. Were it not for Marianne’s weakness for drugs they may have stood the test of time. Mick, however, knew the “scene” surrounding the Stones at that time was not a healthy environment for her.
If you get a chance you should check "Con Funk Shun" Love's train. It was remade by Bruno Mars and Silk Sonic Con function was the original version. They didn't change it very much. Bruno and silk
The song was written about the end of Mick Jagger's long relationship with Marianne Faithful. She was in the hospital in Australia while he was filming the movie Ned Kelly when the idea of wild horses not being able to drag him away came to him as he stayed by her bedside. Then, after she fully recovered, the relationship eventually came to an end. And, Jagger wrote the song. It is a sad love song.
In the liner notes to the 1993 Rolling Stones compilation album Jump Back, Jagger states, "I remember we sat around originally doing this with Gram Parsons, and I think his version came out slightly before ours. Everyone always says this was written about Marianne but I don't think it was; that was all well over by then. But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally."
@@John_Chu I thought it was Keith's reply to his (then) little boy, when asked if Dad was going away again? That line anyway. Also Gram had way more to do with this song and how it came out. I love the Burrito's version a bit more actually. Gram's voice is so much sweeter.
I was actually singing this song live when this reaction was filmed.
I unfortunately can relate to this more than I thought before.
Great reaction...great song...great analysis.
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@@briangbv1 Which version is it for you Brian? Stones or Burrito Bros?
@@DawnSuttonfabfour The original version. I am 41...and I appreciate music that I grew up too thanks to my father. Great song.
This song for me has always been my favorite Stones soft song, bar none. The lyrics are sublime and the simplicity of the music brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.
Same here. I went to mussel shoals last year and took a leak in the bathroom Keith wrote the song :)
The song was recorded in the US in Alabama's Muscle Shoals Recording Studio because it was famous for inspiring a southern sound to bands that recorded there. The whole Sticky Fingers LP was recorded there. Wild Horses has a bit of a country sound as was the goal by the Rolling Stones, then. Many bands recorded albums there because of the sound that came from the studio and the studio musicians that played there. Duane Allman played there with the other studio musicians often for the work before the Allman Brothers Band was created. Aretha Franklin was discovered because of the Muscle Shoals Studio. Duane suggested to Wilson Pickett to sing the Beatles song "Let It Be" which was a huge hit for Mr. Pickett. Duane Allman played the guitar for that song for Mr. Pickett.....
Only three songs were recorded at Muscle Shoals: this one, Brown Sugar and You Gotta Move. The rest were recorded in London
The Stones during this era 69-73ish were just so damn good. The Mick Taylor guitar era.
Totally agree! Hot Rocks was one of my favorite albums (triple album that is)❤️✌️🎼🌼
Rolling Stones late 60’s to mid 70’s - best rock music ever produced and IMO will never be duplicated. Their 4 albums: Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street are the best consecutive albums ever produced. That’s why they called them the greatest rock n roll band in the land. 💯
@@Gordy63There's competition:
Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall.
@@Gordy63 Led Zeppelin 1, 2 , 3, 4, or Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers, The Beatles white . Of course interrupted by Yellow Submarine and Magical Mystery Tour but they were only half albums with filling. Then Abbey Road............
@@Gordy63 have to agree with big Pete. Those four are outstanding albums. Sticky fingers/exile particularly. Mick Taylor is for me, the most emotive guitarist out there. Gilmour comes close but it’s a different thing. Taylor and keith together was something really special.
It's not really about swooning it's about reaching a point in a relationship where things have to be said. It's really about looking back on a rocky relationship with a few miles on it and telling his lady that despite everything wild horses couldn't drag him away.
Well said
Agreed, we'll said!
Good call Key Master!
It’s not a typical love song . It’s basically what you might call a dysfunctional relationship. They can’t stay away from each other .. but they probably should
To me, it’s the acoustic guitar and the chorus that sticks with me even today.
Maybe “melancholy” is a good word to describe this song.
Definitely. Melancholy and deep.
My sister, a huge Stones fan, requested this be played at her funeral...a request our family honored. Still brings tears to my eyes to hear this song.
Asia: "This sounds like a depressing love song!" - that is the correct answer.
.....But sometimes that song just needs to be written and played!
The Rolling Stones have so many songs with country undertones. When you put them all together in a playlist you'll be exposed to a side that most fans don't normally consider. Their catalog incorporates more styles than just about any other band I can think of. It's one of the things that makes them very special. 🤠
One of their classics 🤗😎 on par with Angie ❤️
So much better than Angie.
Shine a Light is an incredible Rolling Stones song that is also worth a listen. Very soulful and a great tribute song for someone that you love who has passed from this life.
This is definitely not some upbeat love song. It is much deeper and resonates deep in ones soul. The times were tumultuous, not only in the world but in the Stones private lives.
This is one of the best collaborations between Mick and Keith. Keith Richards was writing about the good place he was at in the relationship with his girl friend, with whom he just had his first child, but he had to leave to go on tour with the Stones( hence: Wild horses couldn’t drag him away) but Mick rewrote most the lyrics, and he was at a bad place with his girlfriend who had become addicted to heroin, and had almost died of an overdose. The tension between these two different realities makes the song more interesting.
The thumbnail cracks me up.
That's led zeppelin in the background. Lol
Love this channel btw
One of my all-time favourites. I've only sung and played this song a million times since it came out. Lovely guitar work, don't you think?
This is a song about everything going bad, facing the worst, and telling your love that you're down all the way and will never quit her. Ride or die.
This song has been covered by so many other artists. It’s so intensely personal in its emotional depth.
This tune, like most of the Stones' records, is deeply rooted in the blues so, yes, it's sad, I suppose. Bittersweet is probably a better word to describe it.
This along with Girl With The Faraway Eyes gives the Stones 2 of the best country songs ever.
The Stones took American county and stripped it down to its shit kickin, crying in your beer basics
Songs, like poetry, don't always have to be sunshine and rainbows. This is a melancholy song about a promising relationship that never reached fruition because "faith has been broken". In this life there are some things you can't take back and so the relationship is doomed from that point. The only path to redemption is to start all over from scratch - maybe in another life - "let's do some living - after we die"
One of my favorite Stones songs. Rather than upbeat and rocky I think of this more at the end of the day when everything is quiet and it’s just you two, holding each other and quietly swaying back and forth.
The only Jagger/Richards song that the Stones covered. The Flying Burrito Brothers released their version first, using a steel guitar.
You can’t cover your own song. The Stones recorded it long before The Burrito’s did as well. The Stones cut it at Muscle Shoals in Alabama in Dec 1969 with Brown Sugar and You Got To Move all of which ended up on Sticky Fingers in 1971. The Burritos cut in in April of 1970
@@flyingburritobro68 as I understand it was written while gram was hanging super tight with Keith and his girlfriend in France at the mansion during the Exile sessions. It’s a Stones song for sure but I think Keith would be the first to say Gram has a legit hand to it.
There's a wonderful B+W video of the guys performing this beautiful track in the studio. For me, it's one of their greatest songs, and that's saying something!
Saw the Stones just once, on the Voodoo Lounge Tour in '94, and this ranks as the #1 highlight (along with the moment when a front-row moll in a strapless leather dress flashed her baps over the gigantic video monitor to the accompaniment of the roll of vintage hotties that was playing as they did "Honky Tonk Women"...which earned an admiring acknowledgement of "Nice pair!" from a smiling Keith afterwards)
Anyway, human relationships are complex things filled with hard compromises and self-evident contradictions, and they often end when they shouldn't or linger for entirely too long ---and this ditty captures all of that and then some
I speak as one who first heard it 42 years ago when I say that this one gets better with repetition, and there's a really good acoustic live cover of it on here by Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart (as The Lovemongers), joined by the late Chris Cornell on lead vocal, that'd be entirely worth checking out
Keith Richards showed this song to Gram Parsons (The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers).
TFBB had a hit with it before the Stones could put it on an album.
So when the Stone's version came out, people thought it was a cover.
Some people still think Gram Parsons wrote this.
The Sundays cover this song and it's a better version of it. It's featured in the movie FEAR , one of the only examples of the cover is better than the original. Thank you guys for everything!
You guys are the first to do this one, that I know of. One of my favorites from them.
this is one of those few emotionally charged "rock' songs that was/is popular with both males ans females.
One of my favorite tunes by The early Stones from the early 1970’s.
Those are brilliant lyrics, and Keith Richards lead guitar work is great on this song.
What gets me in this , every time is just how soulful it is . Beautiful song I’ve always loved . Asia’s face as she listened to the first half ; the heaviness .
Interestingly, there's a country-ish, twangy, southern quality to this song. Just goes to show how deeply embedded American music was for the early British bands. I mean, we know that the early pioneers of r&b and blues influenced them, but this one shows the country influences as well.
@Penderyn I'm not hearing English folk in Wild Horses but perhaps you have some examples you can suggest I check out. As for "American" music, this term generally refers to the modern era of the mid-19th to 21st centuries, most of which has as its foundation, either African or European music. So, no, American music isn't technically "native American", although indigenous cultures in the Americas have a varied and rich musical legacy which may have also been a contributing factor in the music tapestry.
Asia & BJ, their "Honky Tonk Women", "Jumpin Jack Flash" and "Angie" are next for you!!!
One of their best. Raw, garage band flavor.
It’s a real love song , a lot of love stories are painful,it’s reflective and honest
It was said to be written by Gram Parsons and many believe it was because of his friendship with Keith Richards and Gram recorded it first ,his is the original but it is credited to Jagger Richards ..It could have been a Parsons- Richards composition .
Keith Richards wrote this to his daughter, who he missed greatly while constantly being Keef in the '70's...... It's about the guilt he felt being estranged from her while being a rockstar
One of my favorite songs by them. What person wouldn't be touched by those lyrics?
I would love to see Asia so some covers. Her voice is soooo soothing
This is one of the first songs I put on my iPod. I haven’t listened to it since since she got cancer in 2015.
Other than this original, Haley Rhinehart, Myles Kennedy & Slash, do an incredible live version of this @ Mohammed Ali's tribute
a little surprised by your reaction - this is from the Sticky Fingers album which i believe to be one of the top 10 best of all time and this is a gutsy heart wrenching ballad - i don't think it's meant to make you feel happy.
One of their most beautiful songs!!!💜💜🎶🎼🎵🎤🎸🥁🎹🎙
Wife here..Can never go wrong with The Rolling Stones IMO..Yess a sadness to it absolutely 💯...Thank you for such versatile amazing content!!!
More Rolling Stones: Out of Time, Get Off Of My Cloud, Dandelion, Mothers Little Helper, Time Is On My Side, Beast Of Burden.
And for something different from the Stomes - Groove to Harlem Shuffle and Emotional Rescue 👍
Great song never gets old
This entire album is great.
Well if you grew up in a rural environment like I have
you understand wild horses
and this song is basically saying
he loves the woman so much that wild horses couldn’t drag him away because it’s a very powerful force
First time I heard this song I was a young man and its still just as good after all these years
This song always makes me cry .
The Sundays have a great cover of this song! Harriet wheeler’s voice is special. I think you both would like the cover.
One of my favourite Stones songs, but then I am pretty old.
The Sundays (Female fronted UK band from the 90s) did a cover of this song, so beautiful. The original is so RAW and aching... xoxo
You can feel the tug of war inside
You should listen to the whole Sticky Fingers Album it flows so beautifully.
That's my favorite Stones album
@@sfbayareagirl Been mine from the day it was released. Still play it ,never fails to move me.
@@lynette. agree w you.
This is one of my favorite Rolling Stones song, definitely in my top 3 from them, Asia I agree it does sound depressing, one thing I’m learning from your reactions is that when I was younger we never paid attention to the words and now I’m having more appreciation of these old songs
Mick is so amazing on these vocals. I feel the emotions he puts into it.
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One of my favorite Stones tunes. If you like this one, give "Time Is On My Side" another of my favs from the Stones
I think that the kinda "down vibe" that Asia is referring to is a combination of the minor chords in the song and the slow tempo.
Different lyrics could have easily turned this into a depressing song.
As it is, it's just a slow, mellow, snuggle song.
Yes✌ One of my Favs from The Stones😎
Most rock music written in the Minor key , sound sad. Songs in the Major key are usually more upbeat and Happy, sounding
This is one of my favorites
It's a sad love song. Jagger wrote it about his relationship with Maryann Faithful..
Thats a country harmony on the chorus and pedal steel imitation sound.
Arguably my favorite Stones song
You guys owe me a box of Kleenex after this one! 🌹🕊️✌️
My favorite Stones song!
My favorite version of this song is Leon Russell's. You all should do some Leon Russell songs, stupid talented. "Tightrope" , "A Song for You" , "Masquerade" , all genius stuff.
Y'all should hear the Sundays cover of this. Its pretty damn incredible! ✌❤
One of the only times I prefer the cover. That is probably just because I heard the Sundays version first though
Wife here..I think that is steel guitar in there Ms.Asia
Just a great ballad. Unexpected for the Stones.
Shows range.
My favorite Stones song. He did something to his girl, she is paying him back. He said no matter what she does he's not leaving. Sticky Fingers is the album. Can't You Hear Me Knocking is also on this album. My other favorite Stones song for the music. Kinda funky
keith richard guitar in this song a pure gem.
Put on tape at 'Fame Studios" in Muscle Shoals, Alabama back in the day.
The song is about being there for her when she was going through some kind of heartache but, after she got through it, she was showing him the same heartache that he help get her though, but he loved her regardless, telling her the same words, wild horses couldn't drag him away but, she was telling him their relationship was over, he can't accept it, go back and really listen, ASIA has got it, she's listening to the Lyrics ane she can sense something isn't right!
Murder/SUICIDE AT THE END, Telling her that he has his Freedom but, don't have much time, Faith has been Broken, Lets do some living after we Die and, then the lyrics go on to say, Wild Horses couldn't drag him away!
Wild, wild horse's, we'll ride them some day! He's talking about after death, you have to read between the lines to get the meaning of this song!
At the beginning, he called her GRACELESS lady, meaning she wasn't appreciating the things he had gotten or, gave to her but, he still loved her and, could not accept that, she was treating him the same way she was being treated, he was wild and grazy over her still but, she no longer felt the same but, he would never treat her unkind etc. The way she was being treated when he came into her life, now she's given him his freedom but, he can not accept it, Wild horses still couldn't couldn't drag him away!!!!
Remember this is from 1969-1970. The lyrics are for people who have loved somebody through a hard relationship. This is my opinion of course.
... I gave up tryin' ta figga this one out decades ago.
This is by far my favorite Stones song 👏
You've got to check out Alan Jackson's version of this song. It feels like a completely different song.
The Golden Age of The Stones.
This one was more country inspired. Awesome reaction guys.
Agree the Mick Taylor era was the best. The Stones other eras were pretty good too.
Relationships do have the ups and downs, this song touches a bit on both Asia seems puzzled ,however that may be the beauty of a great song - there is no right or wrong answer ! gotta love it !
He loves you so much.
Your picture of you stating your going to listen to The Rolling Stones and the song Wild Horses has a picture of Led Zeppelin , oops , oh well , it's definitely one of The Stones mellower songs , yet still a good one . The Stones have a bunch of cool tunes , keep checking them out , and keep on jammin !!!!
Can’t you hear me knocking - can’t you hear me knocking - next please from the Stones - their best jam!!!
Always loved this song! Kinda has a country sound. Mick's voice was never better!
For me, this song was also always about the subtext of heroin use - "horse" was slang for heroin back in the day. Yes, its the end of a love affair, but he's saying that he'd even give up this other thing that he loves so much, just for her. This is when Keith Richards had a heroin habit and Mick Jagger was using it "recreationally".
I've always thought of it as a break up song. We can't live together, but I will still always love you sums it up for me.
Whoa. Y'all the first to post this one. Thank you, thank you. Now we're ready for Angie.
Check out Leon Russell live playing "Jumpin Jack Flash" with George Harrison, Clapton, Ringo Starr!!!. Dripping with pure soul - This is the kind of music you both LOVE!!! It's from the concert for Bangladesh - first major rock benefit in 1971. The entire video is on the other site that posts videos. Leon at 55:30 minutes in
I think this is a song that has to grow on you, it's a slow burn. First the music gets to you, then you can think about the lyrics (tho I never used to, haha!).
To me this song is about love, after the honeymoon period, when there can be issues or problems. No matter what happens I will always love you. Were it not for Marianne’s weakness for drugs they may have stood the test of time. Mick, however, knew the “scene” surrounding the Stones at that time was not a healthy environment for her.
Rolling Stones - She's So Cold
Oh I always loved this song❤
Gerry Garcia and friends did an amazing bluegrass cover of this.
If you get a chance you should check "Con Funk Shun" Love's train. It was remade by Bruno Mars and Silk Sonic Con function was the original version. They didn't change it very much. Bruno and silk
The Sundays do a beautiful cover to this!
I like this screen setup.