This was a busy week. Tickets for BIFF are now available for purchase online, and the first selected movie for the festival has been announced. Learn about that and more at Are You Ready for Doomsday 2012? And here is this week's installment for the musical countdown to BIFF!
Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones:
Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones:
Written mainly by Keith Richards but also credited to Mick Jagger, Gimme Shelter is a churning, mid-tempo rock song about apocalypse. During a climate of social and political unrest - the late sixties amidst the violent Vietnam War, Gimme Shelter first appeared on the Stones' 1969 album, Let It Bleed. Richards strummed the opening on an electric-acoustic guitar modeled after a favorite of Chuck Berry's. In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine, Jagger confirmed "That's a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It's apocalypse: the whole records like that."
Gimme Shelter (1969) by The Rolling Stones
Umh, the storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Yea, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away, yeah.
Umn, see the fire is sweepin'
My very street today
Looks like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away, yeah.
I tell you rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
whoooa
Um, see the floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Yeah I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
I tell you war, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away, yeah . . .
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