Everyone is going to hear what they hear, but IMO it is plainly obvious that it's 'plug in, flush out, fight, fukc and feed".

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Palace Revolution 2000
Everyone is going to hear what they hear, but IMO it is plainly obvious that it's 'plug in, flush out, fight, fukc and feed".

"To flush out means to force someone or something out of hiding or to clean something (usually by forcing water through a container).

flush switch
noun
: an electrical switch mounted with only its face exposed and with its sides surrounded by a box or case that is not a part of the switch.

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Everyone is going to hear what they hear, but IMO it is plainly obvious that it's 'plug in, flush out, fight, fukc and feed".

Totally agree.

Mathijs

For years I thought it was "find your fukcing feet."

Still think its about shooting H but also about the experience of stealing the power plugging into the mobile to record the songs. A double meaning sort of like Brown Sugar.

But if you listen to the lyrics the whole somg alludes to being high, what if feels like, how you perceive things-the numbness, disconnection, nodding off...

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Everyone is going to hear what they hear, but IMO it is plainly obvious that it's 'plug in, flush out, fight, fukc and feed".

Totally agree.

Mathijs

Me too. I can't tell from the studio version, but it's clear in the live ones Mathijs shared.

I was wondering how to get the various lyric sites corrected, until I read on Keno's site that "lyrics are usually publish as they were copyrighted, not necessarily the way Mick Jagger sings" [www.keno.org]

That's unfortunate, would be nice to have a literal site, but cool to see that someone (not me) has updated Wikipedia: [en.wikipedia.org] ... Based on the date, the update must have been inspired by this discussion but cites this book: [www.amazon.com] ... Does anyone have that to check the reference?

The archetypal "non-single" Rolling Stones song.

It has everything, emotion, energy, horns ablaze is vocally and lyrically on fire.

The studio performance can never be captured live.

Feel so mesmerized. Unparalleled.

At least we can all agree that “Star Star” is saying “Starbucker” (as it’s printed in my Rolling Stones music/lyrics book which I’m sure is 100% correct)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2023-09-24 08:27 by snoopy2.

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At least we can all agree that “Star Star” is saying “Starbucker” (as it’s printed in my two volume Rolling Stones music/lyrics book which I’m sure is 100% correct)

Of course. It's Mick singing about a groupie who's a coffee aficionado.

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I checked some live versions, and to my ears he always sings 'fight and fukc and feed', most of the times slurring it to 'fight and fukc'n feed'

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Mathijs

Mick clearly, well maybe not all that clearly but a "the" after fire (the) is discernible to my ears in all of those.

Amyl Nitrate
Based on the date, the update must have been inspired by this discussion but cites this book: [www.amazon.com] ... Does anyone have that to check the reference?


Here ya go Amyl .....





ROCKMAN

Ha, so not an attribution for the information in Wikipedia, just another (funny) variant.

Thanks for finding and sharing, Rockman.