The Rolling Stones

Released: November 7, 1983

Songwriter: Mick Jagger Keith Richards

Producer: Keith Richards Mick Jagger Chris Kimsey

[Verse 1]
If you want to wreck my life
Go ahead my love
Tried it once with poison
Tried it once with drugs
My circulation's running dry
It's you that drank me up
Screwed me down with kindness
Suffocating love
When it comes to fighting

[Chorus]
Trying to play it rough
I will take you twenty rounds
I'm just too tough, too tough
Too tough, too tough

[Verse 2]
Saw you on TV last night
In a rerun soap
You were young and beautiful
Already without hope
But I don't think you ever knew
What you've bitten off
But in the end, you spat me out
You could not chew me up

[Bridge]
I'm too tough, too tough
Too tough, too tough

[Chorus]
When it comes to fighting
Trying to play it rough
I will take you twenty rounds
I'm just too tough, too tough

[Verse 3]
I married yesterday
To a teenage bride
You said it's only physical
But I love her deep inside
I still see you in my dreams
With a kitchen knife
With it poised above your head
Now who you going to slice?

[Chorus]
When it comes to fighting
Trying to play it rough
I will take you twenty rounds
I'm just too tough, too tough

[Verse 4]
I don't think you'll ever know
What you've bitten off
But in the end, you spat me out
You could not chew me up

[Outro]
I was too tough, too tough
Too tough, too tough
Too tough, too tough
Too tough
Too tough, too tough
Too tough, too tough

Formed in London in 1962, The Rolling Stones led the “British Invasion” along with The Beatles and were so successful their influence can be seen in arguably every rock ‘n’ roll band that followed.

Three of the current members have been there since the band’s singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, who write the majority of the band’s catalogue and also produced some albums as The Glimmer Twins; and drummer Charlie Watts. The fourth official member is guitarist Ronnie Wood, who has been there since 1975 (the keyboardist and bassist who play in studio and live are usually not listed). The Stones have released more than 20 studio albums, and even as age caught up on them, continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with big stadium tours continuing through the 1990s, 2000s and into the 2010s.

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