Too Much Blood

About Too Much Blood

"Too Much Blood" is a song by The Rolling Stones featured on their 1983 album Undercover. Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Too Much Blood" is largely a Jagger composition. The song is a reflection of the many influences the Stones would have during their career in the mid-1980s. Jagger said at the time of its release, "I had made out a very honest burden of mind before everyone had arrived one night. It was just Charlie [Watts] and Bill [Wyman]. And one of our roadies called Jim Barber, he was playing guitar on it too. And I just started playing this riff I had, with this middle part, I didn't have any words to it and then I just suddenly started rapping out these words which are the ones you hear." ("Mick asked me if I could do an 'Andy Summers' on the track" - Jim Barber)The song itself deals with the growing depictions of violence in the media at the time and the case of Issei Sagawa, with Jagger saying, "Well there was this scandalous, murderous story in France - it was a true story - about this Japanese guy who murdered this girl and it sort of captured the imagination of the French public, and the Japanese. The Russians wanted to make a movie out of it. So that was the first bit and then I started becoming more light-hearted about it, movies and all. ...it came out as a sort of anti-gratuitous cinema of violence. And it's a kind of anti-violent thing." more »

Year:

1983

6:14

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I want to dance, I want to sing 
I want to bust up everything 
To make some love 
I want to dance, I want to sing 
I want to bust up everything 
And make some love 

I can feel it in the air 
Feel it up above 
Feel the tension everywhere 
There is too much blood 
Too much blood, well alright 

Everything you see 
On the movie screen is tame 
Everything's gonna be arranged 

A friend of mine was this Japanese. He had a girlfriend in 
Paris. He tried to date her in six months and eventually she 
Said yes. You know he took her to his apartment, cut off her 
Head. Put the rest of her body in the refrigerator, ate her 
Piece by piece. Put her in the refrigerator, put her in the 
Freezer. And when he ate her and took her bones to the Bois de 
Boulogne, by chance a taxi driver noticed him burying the 
Bones. You don't believe me? Truth is stranger than fiction. 
We drive through there every day. 

I want to dance, I want to sing 
I want to bust up everything 
Be number one, yeah 
I want to dance, I want to sing 
I want to bust up everything 
And have some fun 

I can feel it everywhere 
Feel it up above 
Feel the tension in the air 
There is too much blood, too much blood 
Too much, yeah too much blood, alright 

Did you ever see 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre'? Horrible, wasn't 
It? You know people ask me: it is really true where you live 
In Texas, it is really true what they do around there, people? 
I say, "yeah every time I drive through the crossroads I get 
Scared there's a bloke running around with a fucking chain 
Saw. Oh oh no, gonna, oh no. Don't saw off me leg, don't saw 
Off me arm." When I get to the movies, you know I'd like to 
See something more romantic, you know. Like 'An Officer and a 
Gentleman' or something. Something you can take the wife to, 
You know what I mean? 

Yeah! 

I want to dance, I want to sing 
I want to bust up everything 
And have some fun 
I want to dance, I want to sing 
I want to bust up everything 
And make some love 

I can feel it everywhere 
Feel it up above 
Feel the tension in the air 
There is too much blood, too much blood 
Oh yeah 

Pretty ladies, don't be scared 
Pretty ladies, don't be scared 
Pretty ladies, don't be scared 
Pretty ladies, don't be scared 

Pretty ladies, don't despair 
There's still so much love 
Pretty ladies, don't despair 
Too much, too much, yeah 
Too much blood, too much blood 
Too much too much blood, too much blood 
Too much blood, too much blood

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in Dartford in 1962. The earliest settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (keyboards, piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watts (drums). Since Wyman's retirement in 1993, the band's full members have been Jagger, Richards, Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood who joined in 1975. Darryl Jones (bassist) and Chuck Leavell (keyboardist) are regular contributors but not full band members. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stones in 1989, noting that "critical acclaim and popular consensus has accorded them the title of the “World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.”Rolling Stone magazine ranked them 4… more »

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