QUOTE: Salon gets the Rolling Stones wrong:
""Let It Bleed" is soaked in addiction ("All my friends are junkies")..."
This would be a valid analysis, were the next line of the song not "that's not really true." Thus:
"I'm a flea-bit peanut monkey
all my friends are junkies
that's not really true...
...well I hope we're not too messianic
or a trifle too satanic
we love to play the blues"
It's pretty much a song deflating the myths people tried to build up around them. Score one for listening to the whole song.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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