Get Off of My Cloud ~ The Rolling Stones ~ Cover w/ Harley Benton Delta Blues MJCE & BT
(c)1965 Words & Music by Mick Jagger - Keith Richards
Track 3/ Side 2 on album "Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) 1966
Guitar Arr. by stagwolf [Played in A, Capo 3rd fret, sounds in the key of C
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I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window imaginin´ the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack
And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack.
#Hey! You! Get off of my cloud! Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud! Don't hang around 'cos two's a crowd on my cloud, baby.. [2.+ 3.# 4. End cold
The telephone is ringing I say, "Hi, it's me. Who is there on the line?"
A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you ?" Well, I guess I'm doin' fine..
He says, "It's three a.m., there's too much noise, don't u people ever wanna go to bed?
Just 'cos you feel so good, do you have to drive me out of my head?" #
+I was sick & tired, fed up with this and decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful there was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like a flag stuck on my window screen.. #
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Original key=E (BT=Backingtrack)
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The Stones have said that the song is a reaction to their suddenly greatly enhanced popularity and deals with their aversion to people's expectations of them after the success of "Satisfaction". Richards commented: "'Get off of My Cloud' was basically a response to people knocking on our door asking us for the follow-up to 'Satisfaction' ... We thought 'At last. We can sit back and maybe think about events'. Suddenly there's the knock at the door and of course what came out of that was 'Get off of My Cloud'".
In 1971 he added:
"I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but we rushed it as the follow-up. We were in L.A. [Los Angeles, where "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was recorded], and it was time for another single. But how do you follow-up "Satisfaction"? Actually, what I wanted was to do it slow, like a Lee Dorsey thing. We rocked it up. I thought it was one of Andrew Loog Oldham's worst productions."
In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said, "That was Keith's melody and my lyrics ... It's a stop-bugging-me, post-teenage-alienation song. The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress."
I was sick and tired, fed up with this and decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful, there was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like flags stuck on my windscreen
The song is in E major and is built on variants of the "Louie Louie" riff, a short repeating pattern of the chords I, IV and V, in this case E–A–B–A. It opens with a drum intro by Charlie Watts and twin guitars by Brian Jones and Richards.[wiki