The narrator is infatuated with a rich girl and is tirelessly attempting to get her attention. Maybe the girl lives with her parents, who don't approve of the relationship, and the guy has to sneak in (perhaps he knocks on the window so the girl can open it and toss down the keys so he can get in the house). The verses give the impression that the girl generally has it better than he does ("satin shoes", "fancy boots", "when you're safe asleep"). "Hear me ringing, big bells toll" could allude to wedding bells, but that's just speculation.
To me, the drug references just symbolize the narrator's "addiction" to the object of his affections more than an underlying drug-related theme in the song.
One last thing--the lyrics of this song make me think of the poem "The Highwayman." The Stones probably weren't inspired by it, but it has the same theme--the highwayman rides down to the house where his girlfriend lives, and (if I recall) they have to meet stealthily and in secret because the girl's father doesn't approve. (One of the few "classic poems" that I wasn't force-fed in Language Arts class...XD)
I like this Romeo and Juliet interpretation but also agree with many of the drug-laced meanings woven into lyrics as noted above by aphasia. The hero Romeo, is a bad boy of the streets, of the night life, cute and druggy and bad and working his pleading charms on this girl with the satin shoes and plastic boots. I guess he 's seen her enough to know about her footwear. He wants in ! He needs shelter. There's a cozy paradise for him if she'll just throw down the keys... the tasty jam that follows is this her...
I like this Romeo and Juliet interpretation but also agree with many of the drug-laced meanings woven into lyrics as noted above by aphasia. The hero Romeo, is a bad boy of the streets, of the night life, cute and druggy and bad and working his pleading charms on this girl with the satin shoes and plastic boots. I guess he 's seen her enough to know about her footwear. He wants in ! He needs shelter. There's a cozy paradise for him if she'll just throw down the keys... the tasty jam that follows is this her answer to him? with Mick Taylor's modal guitar riffs druggy sounding against the intense background of Rock and Roll night, building till it dominates the track and everything follows his riffs-- I guess she let him in.
The narrator is infatuated with a rich girl and is tirelessly attempting to get her attention. Maybe the girl lives with her parents, who don't approve of the relationship, and the guy has to sneak in (perhaps he knocks on the window so the girl can open it and toss down the keys so he can get in the house). The verses give the impression that the girl generally has it better than he does ("satin shoes", "fancy boots", "when you're safe asleep"). "Hear me ringing, big bells toll" could allude to wedding bells, but that's just speculation.
To me, the drug references just symbolize the narrator's "addiction" to the object of his affections more than an underlying drug-related theme in the song.
One last thing--the lyrics of this song make me think of the poem "The Highwayman." The Stones probably weren't inspired by it, but it has the same theme--the highwayman rides down to the house where his girlfriend lives, and (if I recall) they have to meet stealthily and in secret because the girl's father doesn't approve. (One of the few "classic poems" that I wasn't force-fed in Language Arts class...XD)
I like this Romeo and Juliet interpretation but also agree with many of the drug-laced meanings woven into lyrics as noted above by aphasia. The hero Romeo, is a bad boy of the streets, of the night life, cute and druggy and bad and working his pleading charms on this girl with the satin shoes and plastic boots. I guess he 's seen her enough to know about her footwear. He wants in ! He needs shelter. There's a cozy paradise for him if she'll just throw down the keys... the tasty jam that follows is this her...
I like this Romeo and Juliet interpretation but also agree with many of the drug-laced meanings woven into lyrics as noted above by aphasia. The hero Romeo, is a bad boy of the streets, of the night life, cute and druggy and bad and working his pleading charms on this girl with the satin shoes and plastic boots. I guess he 's seen her enough to know about her footwear. He wants in ! He needs shelter. There's a cozy paradise for him if she'll just throw down the keys... the tasty jam that follows is this her answer to him? with Mick Taylor's modal guitar riffs druggy sounding against the intense background of Rock and Roll night, building till it dominates the track and everything follows his riffs-- I guess she let him in.
@Sandwich-Masta WRONG! It's about heroin. There is no reference to any girl.
@Sandwich-Masta WRONG! It's about heroin. There is no reference to any girl.