Lyrics for Torn and Frayed as interpreted by deathwish

Torn and Frayed Lyrics
Hey let him follow you down,
Way underground wind and he's bound.
Bound to follow you down,
Just a dead beat right off the street.
Bound to follow you down.
Well the ballrooms and smelly bordellos
And dressing rooms filled with parasites.
On stage the band has got problems,
They're a bag of nerves on first nights.
He ain't tied down to no home town,
Yeah, and he thought he was wreckless.
You think he's bad, he thinks you're mad,
Yeah, and the guitar player gets restless.

And his coat is torn and frayed,
It's seen much better days.
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away,
Let it steal your heart away.

Joe's got a cough, sounds kind a rough,
Yeah, and the codeine to fix it.
Doctor prescribes, drug store supplies,
Who's gonna help him to kick it

Well his coat is torn and frayed,
It`s seen much better days.
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away,
Let it steal your heart away.

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kingmikeking
07-03-2003

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i think mick wrote this about keith. i think he is basically saying: 'things are going to get worse, but until they do, just enjoy things.'

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JumpyJack
01-10-2005

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That sounds pretty accurate, especially since Keith was known for wearing his favorite jackets and shirts until they literally fell off his body. I love the verse about Joe. How very true those words are.

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tovangar
01-18-2005

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mick wrote this about keith and heroin. mick saved keith's life. keith would be dead now if mick hadn't set aside everything to pull his friend out of his addiction, even though keith fought him every step of the way. Mick & keith are my favorite love story.

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JumpyJack
07-24-2005

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That's not right. Mick and Bianca have tried to take credit for helping Keith kick heroin but in truth they did very little. In fact, after Keith got his act together, he says that Mick privately wished he was a junkie again because Mick had gotten used to being the sole leader of the band and resented Keith's new input. And why wouldn't he resent it? After all he knows deep down that Keith is a much better pure musician than himself. Keith has more emotion and "realness" in his pinky toe than Mick has in his entire body.

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willia05
09-14-2005

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Definitely about Keef.

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pt
01-13-2006

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Keith Vs. Mick is all opinion.

Mick held the band together for a good part of the 70's and always wrote a bulk of the lyrics.....the best musician was Mick Taylor (check out the up grade on Ya-ya's on the old material)

Boot leg stuff from 73 shows even more so how Taylor was By FAR the best musican.....and that's why the stones will never release cock sucker blues and other live material from 70-73.

O the song?
I though it said his "arm" is torn and Frayed. i.e. junkie's shot up arm.....if in fact that is the line, it's pretty sick.

either way a hell of a song on the greatest album ever.

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hipshot
01-20-2006

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pt? are you Mick Taylor in disguise?? If you are youre an ace guitarist. Maybe its just a bluesy made up lyric?

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just12
11-30-2007

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How can there be no comment on this? A beautiful song, down-home, bar-room give-me-the-beat-boy type stuff talking about a torn and frayed musician. The stones don't have any of those, do they?

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jackerscrackers
04-11-2008

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beautiful song, definately my favorite on the album, it sounds so holy and graceful.

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pacman_133
07-26-2008

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yeah a very nice song.love jaggers wierd accent.this album is their best for sure!as for song meaning...uh, i think its maybe how the stones saw themselves at the time - sort of outlaws or whatever

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pthalomarie
08-05-2008

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this song makes a lot of sense if you watch the movie Cocksucker Blues. You see them dealing with lots of drugs and dressing rooms filles with parasites.

i think most of the takes on it are spot-on. i always too the line "Just as long as the guitar plays" to mean that Mick was hoping that Keith wouldn't die or eel over in the middle of a performance.

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HubbityBubba
09-19-2009

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If this song is about Keith, who is Joe with the cough?

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