Lyrics Language: Scots Song writer/composer(s): Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
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The Rolling StonesStart Me Up Lyrics:
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
I've been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
Never stop, never stop, never stop
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
Spread out the oil, the gasoline
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If you start it up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got
I can't compete with the riders in the other heats
If you rough it up
If you like it you can slide it up
Slide it up, slide it up, slide it up
Don't make a grown man cry
Don't make a grown man cry
Don't make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy, she's a mean, mean machine
Start it up
Start me up
Give it all you got
You got to never, never, never stop
Slide it up, baby just slide it up
Slide it up, slide it up, never, never, never
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
Ride like the wind at double speed
I'll take you places that you've never, never seen
Start it up
Love the day when we'll never stop, never stop
Never, never, never stop
Tough me up
Never stop, never stop
You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man come
You, you make a dead man come
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"START ME UP" 1
Written by: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Produced by: The Glimmer Twins 2
Performed by: The Rolling Stones 34
First released: 5
Single: August 14, 1981
Album: August 24, 1981
1 "Start Me Up" was first recorded in Munich during the 1975, Black and Blue sessions, and later in the 1978,
Some Girls sessions, under the working titles "Never Stop" and "Start It Up." Originally recorded as a
reggae-rock track, but after dozens of takes the band stopped recording it, as it reminded them of something
currently on the radio. In 1981, with the band looking to tour, Jagger decided to break out the archived song.
Overdubs were done on the track in early 1981. The infectious "thump" to the song was achieved using mixer,
Bob Clearmountain's, famed "bathroom reverb," a process involving the recording of some of the song's vocal
and drum tracks with a miked speaker in the bathroom of the Power Station recording studio in New York City.
It was there where final touches were added to the song, including Jagger's switch of the main lyrics from
"start it up" to "start me up." The song reached #7 in the U.K. and #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The
lyrics to the song might be read as referring to motorcycle racing, but clearly they are double-entendres
that are overtly sexual.
2 In addition to Jagger and Richards' songwriting partnership, they also produced or co-produced numerous
Rolling Stones' albums under the pseudonym The Glimmer Twins.
3 Personnel May 1975-1993, and performing on this recording:
1. Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica, keyboards, guitar)
2. Keith Richards (guitars, vocals, bass, keyboards, percussion)
3. Charlie Watts (drums, percussion)
4. Ronnie Wood (guitars, backing vocals, bass, drums, percussion)
5. Bill Wyman (bass, synthesizer)
4 Covered by:
Blondie
Deuce & His Dancin' Crew
The Folksmen
The Homewreckers
The Innovations
David Ari Leon
Bob Rivers (parodied as "Bought It Up") 6
The Rockin' Wildcats
The Rolling Clones
Edinho SantaCruz Y Banda
Henry Lee Summer
Toots & the Maytals
et al.
5 Appears on: *
SINGLE(S):
(1)The Rolling Stones:
A-side: "Start Me Up"
B-side: "No Use in Crying"
(a) Rolling Stones (Label), 7-Inch, Vinyl, 45rpm Single, #RS-21003, US-1981.
ALBUM(S):
(a)The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You
(1) Rolling Stones (Label), 11-Track, Stereo LP, #COC-16052, US-1981.
(2) Rolling Stones (Label), 11-Track, Stereo Cassette, #CS-16052, US-1981.
(3) Rolling Stones (Label), 11-Track, Stereo CD, #CK-40502, US-1990 7 .
et al.
* The album(s) and record(s) listed here may have different versions of the song than the one that was
transcribed. Also, this list is not intended to be the complete discography on which this song appears.
