Lyrics for Gimme Shelter as interpreted by spliphstar

Gimme Shelter Lyrics
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today.
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, 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.

Ooh, see the fire sweepin'
Our very street today.
Burns 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.

The floods is threat'ning
My very life today.
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away.

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you 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

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me no nout
06-07-2008

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this song is highly influenced by the most notorious p3dow that have existed. Adam get over it , your dad is a p3edo. End of. Cya fatty !!
xxx

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KingoftheEyesores09
07-10-2008

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The intro is AMAZING! And I LOVE when the girl sings! Awesome song!

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bryan_b
08-26-2008

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this song is awesome! i listen to it everyday after work. Keith's solos in this song are amazing! this song is dark, but it was written during the darkest of times. i seen The Stones play in Toronto, during the benefit concert and they played this song amazingly! This song is awesome, but live is god like. Rock on Keith and Mick!

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SympathyForTheDevil_
02-25-2009

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GREAT SONG

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danv1962
04-14-2009

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Where are the rest of the words? Rape, Murder? Hard to listen to I guess but works for the song.


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zeitkreig
05-23-2009

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1969 Let It Bleed. Obviously about war. Tones of civil unrest may be seen in Fire sweeping the streets Today. And in Mad Bull losts its way may be ref to Bull Connor of 63 King protest in Birmingham infamy. there is a call to peace with Love Sister Its just a kiss away. One year after this song was released Kent State was the site of another watershed event. Neil Young "Four Dead in Oh Hi OH.

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zeitkreig
05-23-2009

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Rape Murder Its just a shot away. Rape and murder are constant by-products of war.

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Trailmaster
09-28-2009

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Sorry to crush some bubbles here, but Keith Richards has stated that he never wrote lyrics about recreational drug use. People seem to want to interpret all their songs as something about heroin. In fact the only times they did sing about drugs were about abuse (ref: Sister Morphine, Mother's Little Helper).

It was largely Vietnam that inspired this song according to interviews with Richards and Jagger, but also took into account some natural disasters happening worldwide at the time.

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Trailmaster
09-28-2009

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Sorry to crush some bubbles here, but Keith Richards has stated that he never wrote lyrics about recreational drug use. People seem to want to interpret all their songs as something about heroin. In fact the only times they did sing about drugs were about abuse (ref: Sister Morphine, Mother's Little Helper).

It was largely Vietnam that inspired this song according to interviews with Richards and Jagger, but also took into account some natural disasters happening worldwide at the time.

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