#especially bc i am simp myself (like mick) so it speaks to me on a personal level BUT

[keithsguitar]

mick and keith have been made aware that apparently it was/is a thing for people to get laid to beast of burden (there’s a video but idk where it is) [EDIT: HERES THE VIDEO!!!/ warning: this is a cursed video pls proceed with caution] ... my question is why is the getting laid to song not coming down again......... hold your questions until the end.

beast of burden

1) beast of burden literally means carrying another person’s load or insecurities. this song is not making bedroom eyes at me.

2) keith said in an interview that a lot of people think it’s about anita or marianne but he dismissed it saying “we were trying to write for a slightly broader audience than just anita pallenberg or marianne faithfull.” keep in mind, mick and marianne split in 1970, mick had married since, and keith and anita were “together” but separate, nearing the end of their relationship.

3) keith also said “some of the theories surrounding it are very intriguing, but they’re about as divorced from reality as can be.” aka this is just a really fucking good song but no real concrete meaning. (but to be fair, some people think it alludes to keith’s drug problem being a burden on mick.. but keith has insisted it’s about no one in particular)

4) the chorus is the speaker asking if he’s tough enough, rough enough, rich enough, in love enough as rhetorical questions, various body parts aching, and being thrown on the street. a very good soul song, bluesy lyrics but we will not discard the meaning of the song for the second verse.. sorry. i don’t want to get laid to that...

coming down again.... this song. THIS SONG.

1) mick taylor plays on this track (reason enough to want to get laid, it calls for celebration)

2) keith is not only playing both guitar parts, but he is lead vocals. even though bill and mick may be infamous for sleeping around, it is, after all, common knowledge that keith was the best at screwing. not one person has come up with any contradictions. so ofc the king of screwing should be the lead in the getting laid song.

also keith is hot. his voice is hot, his hair is hot, he is hot. he it a hot man. who also has a hot voice and added with the inflictions on this song, is extra hot.

also think about this. these shoulders are the ones singing to you:

................................... yes.

3) what is this song about? in his autobiography, keith said some people think it’s about him stealing anita then he said something about shit hitting a fan and he didn’t do a good job dismissing the theory. see for yourself: read these lyrics to the two verses:

“share your thoughts, there's nothing you can hide

she was dying to survive (anita in an abusive relationship with brian, getting increasingly physical)

i was caught, oh, taken for a ride (ride like the one brian, anita, and keith took to morocco? why would keith go with a couple on vacation? ride?? like his car they took after dropping brian off at a hospital bc he was feeling ill and they wanted to continue the trip and he got a bj in the backseat??)

she was showing no surprise (he has said the attraction to each other was so obvious and something about tension needing to be broken...)

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slipped my tongue in someone else's pie (groupie asked on keith richards and i quote: “that tongue!”; anita was someone else’s pie or something....)

tasting better every time (reference above and really think about it...vibe on it for a second)

he turned green and tried to make me cry (ig brian being super jealous; he literally spiraled)

being hungry, it ain't no crime” (...... keith stay hungry please i beg.. he couldn’t help himself from stealing the ladies (..that’s hot))

4) therefore, this song is about inevitable and irresistible attraction. it uses innuendos such as ride and pie. it has a whole fucking plot in two verses; it reads like fucking shakespearean literature with the jealousy and similes. this is a better song to get laid to. no other opinions are valid and thus not up for consideration.

thank you for coming down again to my ted talk. tune in next week for another irrelevant opinion.