He feels that her leaving is her way of hurting him back ("I've watched you suffer a dull aching pain, now you've decided to show me the same") however he loves her and doesn't want hostility or hurtful words. For me it's about a man and woman who have been together and loved each other a long time but he has broken her trust ("Faith has been broken") and now the relationship is ending because she chooses not to continue suffering (emotionally) which is causing him emotional pain. But I think everyone can interpret this song differently based on their own life experiences. I know the story behind the Stones' relationship and have read what is considered the "real" interpretation of this song.heroine and addiction and commitment and love. Let's do some living after we die- they can't be together in this life, but hopefully will be able to be together in death- sort of like a Romeo and Juliet thing.įinally, wild horses couldn't drag me away- away from the memory of their love. I have my freedom but I don't have much time- the relationship as it is is over, and he must stop hurting or he will drown in it.įaith has been broken tears must be cried- there is no going back because the have destroyed each other and the relationship, and they must mourn the end of the relationship, and of what they did have together, this great love. No sweeping exits, or offstage line could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind- no matter what hurt they have caused eachother, there is still a great deal of love between them. It could be affairs, it could be despair, it could be the self-destructiveness, or all three. Suffered a dull aching pain- now you decided to show me the same- meaning they had hurt each other through destructive behavior towards eachother, she felt the pain first, from drug use and from his destructive pattern, now she has done the same to him by her self-destructive behavior and her destructive behavior towards him. "I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie"- The destruction and what she had become disillusioned him. But even though she wasn't the girl he first fell in love with, "you know who I am"- meaning, that whatever she has become, she should know he still loves her. She fell from grace in his eyes, because she became jaded by drug use. Mick kept them in, and as someone suggested, it was about an innocent, naive girl he first met and fell in love with.
So, the first 4 lines were written by Keith Richards. Upon waking, she said wild horses couldn't drag me away, meaning nothing could drag her away from this life. She tried to kill herself by overdosing, and Mick was at her bedside until she came out of a coma. It was written in 1969, but wasn't realeased until 1971 on Sticky Fingers.Īt the time, their relationship was falling apart because of her drug addictions. It was taken over by Jagger, who wrote it for Marianne Faithful. This song was started by Keith Richards who wrote the first few lines for his son Marlon, about the pain of leaving him as he was about to leave on a tour.
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