"butt's gonna break" just doesn't sound like a great line which makes me think that's not it. Every reference in the internet says the same thing - "butt's gonna break". I don't know if Mick Jagger or Keith Richards have weighed in on this anywhere. What if (just a wild guess), it's ...
"When your spine is cracking and your hands they shake; Heart is bursting and your butts DON'T break..." as in cigarette butts. I know that's a long shot and now that I've written it out it looks stupid. But I guess my thinking is that since you're hands are "shaking", you can't put your cigarettes out or something. OK. so maybe that's lame but "butts gonna break"?!? Why wouldn't he have used the word 'ass' and somehow rearranged the line. One more thing: Why would your "butt" be "breaking" just because there's no "ventilation" in the basement? I'm wanting to cover this song and so I'm trying to crack this code.
"butt's gonna break" just doesn't sound like a great line which makes me think that's not it. Every reference in the internet says the same thing - "butt's gonna break". I don't know if Mick Jagger or Keith Richards have weighed in on this anywhere. What if (just a wild guess), it's ... "When your spine is cracking and your hands they shake; Heart is bursting and your butts DON'T break..." as in cigarette butts. I know that's a long shot and now that I've written it out it looks stupid. But I guess my thinking is that since you're hands are "shaking", you can't put your cigarettes out or something. OK. so maybe that's lame but "butts gonna break"?!? Why wouldn't he have used the word 'ass' and somehow rearranged the line. One more thing: Why would your "butt" be "breaking" just because there's no "ventilation" in the basement? I'm wanting to cover this song and so I'm trying to crack this code.
Whadda y'all think?