Lyrics: Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
Music: Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
Why don't you drive me?
Down that rough and twisted road
Why don't you guide me?
'Cause I don't know which way to go
Promise to take me
Yeah, to where the water glows
Somewhere, somewhere down in Puerto Rico
Where the tide just ebbs and flows
You flash me all your jewellery
Your poetry, and friends
Promised me I'd dance like Nijinsky
Nothing, nothing, nothing but a false pretense
All you feed me
Was just rancid rice and bones
All I drank was muddy waters
As lonely as a saxophone
Why don't you take me?
To where I wanna go
To Natchez, Mississippi, Sicily, and Rome
You just took me to a fly-blow town
In the back of nowhere
The smell was acrid and toxic
Couldn't breathe the air
The only club was called Conspiracy
They didn't like me much
What they wanted was tyranny
And all that crazy, crazy, ****ed-up stuff
Why don't you drive me?
Take me where you wanna go
Why don't you take me?
Down those rough and twisted roads
Why don't you teach me?
Teach me all those foreign tongues
Why don't you teach me?
'Cause I'm deaf, and blind, and dumb
Drive me
Drive me
Where I wanna go
Drive me
Take me where I wanna
Take me where I wanna
Take me where I wanna go