"19th Nervous Breakdown"

Songwriters: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

The Rolling Stones with Ian Stewart (piano)

Production: Andrew Oldham and Jack Nitzsche with Dave Hassinger (engineer).

Recorded: RCA Studios, Hollywood, 3-8 December 1965

UK release: Decca F 12331, 4 February 1966; charts 10 February 1966: RR #2 (16 February 1966). US release: London 45-9823, 12 February 1966: BB #2 (March 1966).

Notes & Quotes

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You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs. Center of a crowd, talking much too loud running up and down the stairs. Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years. And though you've tried you just can't hide your eyes are edged with tears.	a
You better stop, look around, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes. Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.	b
When you were a child you were treated kind, but you were never brought up right. You were always spoiled with a thousand toys but still you cried all night. Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax. And your father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax.	c
Oh, who's to blame, that girl's just insane. Well nothing I do don't seem to work, it only seems to make matters worse. Oh please.	d
You were still in school when you had that fool who really messed your mind. And after that you turned your back on treating people kind. On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind. But after a while I realized you were disarranging mine.	e

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	15-May-2018