>Gimme Shelter
Interesting subject the connection between the Dark Side & music. The Stones sure were into something. Heres a bit of interdasting
hmmm?… about Gimme Shelter and some
sacrificial deaths
Gimme Shelter is the opening tune on the album Let It Bleed released in Dec 1969.
It is the last album to include
27yr old Brian Jones
who died during its recording
The day after Let It Bleed the Stones played a free concert at Altamont Speedway. The event was a satanic response to Woodstock and was captured on film in a documentary called Gimme Shelter. During the performance of Sympathy for the Devil the Hell's Angels murdered
18yr old Meredith Hunter
This was the end of the Peace, Love & Understanding Era
The heart wrenching female lyrics on the song Gimme Shelter are from 20yr old pregnant soul singer Merry Clayton. Within hours of leaving the studio she lost her
baby in a miscarriage.
btw- There is a pizza hidden on the album cover for Let It Bleed
Some lyrics to Gimme Shelter
A STORM is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
I'm gonna fade away
War children It's just a shot away
See the fire is sweeping
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
(Merry Clayton Solo)
Rape, murder! It's just a shot away
The floods is threatening
My very life today
Gimme shelter
Or I'm going to fade away
I tell you love sister, It's just a kiss away
Gimme Shelter is really one of the tamer Stones songs lyrically, check out Star Fucker if you want your jaw to drop.
For those not familiar with the Stones history, lifestyle & lyrics the make a great dig. But take it from us who grew up with them that their satanic rabbit hole runs very,very deep