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Sweet Soubrette wrote and performed this song for the September 2011 Bushwick Book Club performance inspired by Keith Richards' "Life." Sweet Soubrette's intro. -- "he's so charming and irresponsile and doesn't seem to worry or feel sorry except for that one part where he's like 'Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have introduced John Phillips from The Mamas and The Papas to heroin... sigh." For more Sweet Soubrette, please visit sweetsoubrette.com

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Keith Says

Keith says let’s jump in the Bentley
And go to Morocco
Where they cover the children in honey
And run them through fields of herb naked
To harvest the powder

Keith says he thinks about the women
How maybe he opened their hearts
Just a little to realize
Their lust and desire unleashed
Was incredible power

The girls close in like maenads
Or a river of piranhas
Their bouffant hairdos
Coming undone in the rain
Their teeth and claws
Gleaming like the frets of his guitar
They know what they want
Give them what they want

Keith says they were a pirate nation
With lawyers and clowns
And attendants to pick up the pieces
When he would get busted
All traveling under one banner

Keith says he gave away his daughter
To live with his mother
Since he was too wasted to be a good father
And he knew he’d prob’ly
End up in the slammer

The girls don’t seem to mind the way
The guy needs saving from the world
They kiss and bless and bathe him
They’d keep him if they could
A brigade of Red Cross nurses
Whose feelings don’t get hurt
They know what they want
Give them what they want

Keith says the room just caught on fire
While the babies were sleeping
A mouse it came creeping and chewed on the wire
The house and hotel
Where they stayed for the trial

Keith says let’s jump in the Bentley
And go to Morocco
Don’t you worry 'bout getting
Your fix cause the stash in the secret
Compartment will last us a while.

credits

from The Bushwick Book Club presents Keith Richards' "Life", released September 15, 2011
Recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Sweet Soubrette was wearing jeans.

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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