we wanted this cover to sound like us yet still capture the true essence of the song, which is impending doom...the Stones always had attitude unlike any other...
some people get by with a little understanding, some people get by with a whole lot more..
think back to when Gary Numan wrote and recorded 'Cars' in 1979 and if we don't think we've lost something we're crazy...but if we think it's coming back anytime soon then we are complete fools...
can you still recall in the juke box hall when the music played
and the world spun round to a brand new sound in those far off days..
in their blue suede shoes they would scream and shout
as they sang the blues, let it all hang out..
rock and roll..
Story behind the song
Apt in 1969, maybe more so in 2025..we feel this song is timeless as every generation grapples with problems that threaten their very existence...if the Ukraine's not Poland or the Gaza isn't Rwanda then we never learn and never will and if we don't call out what's wrong or continue to sugar coat our ideology because we think there is only 'us and them' then we're consigned to making the same mistakes over and over again...and in reality that's what we've done for the past two millennia.
Lyrics
Ooh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Ooh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder yeah
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away, yeah
The floods is threatening
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
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