Parachute woman
Land on me tonight
“Subtle” is not the first word that comes to mind when you’re trying to describe Rolling Stones song lyrics. Their lyrics are more typically blunt and explicit.
That’s true of songs like “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Brown Sugar,” and “Some Girls,” and it’s certainly true of “Parachute Woman,” a lesser-known Stones song that was released in 1968 on the Beggars Banquet album. Its lyrics are about as subtle as a captive bolt pistol – that’s the slaughterhouse tool that Javier Bardem uses as a murder weapon in No Country for Old Men:
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Did I phone this one in?
Yes, I did. But gimme a break – I’ve been busier than a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest trying to finish up two very special upcoming posts that I hope to finalize and post on 2 or 3 lines very soon.
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