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The Rolling Stones – Ventilator Blues (1972) | Track profile | Dork

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Exile on Main St.
Ventilator Blues

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The Rolling Stones

Ventilator Blues

Release date: 12th May 1972

From Exile on Main St.

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"Ventilator Blues" is a track by The Rolling Stones, from the album Exile on Main St., released 12th May 1972. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about The Rolling Stones.

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Lyrics

Ventilator Blues

[Verse 1]

When your spine is cracking and your hands, they shake

Heart is bursting and your butt's going to break

Your woman's cussing, you can hear her scream

Feel like murder in the first degree

Ain't nobody slowing down no way

Everybody’s stepping on their accelerator

Don't matter where you are

Everybody’s going to need a ventilator

[Verse 2]

When you're trapped and circled with no second chances

Your code of living is your gun in hand

We can't be browed by beating, we can't be cowed by words

Messed by cheating, ain't gonna ever learn

Everybody walking around

Everybody trying to step on their Creator

Don't matter where you are

Everybody, everybody going to need some kind of ventilator

Some kind of ventilator

Come down and get it

[Outro]

What you going to do about it?

What you going to do?

What you going to do about it?

What you going to do?

Gonna fight it? Gonna fight it?

Gonna fight it? Gonna fight it?

Gonna fight it? Gonna fight it?

Gonna fight it? Gonna fight it?

Gonna fight it? Gonna fight it?

Gonna fight it? Gonna fight it?

Gonna fight it? Gonna fight it?

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Track details

From Exile on Main St.

1972

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1972

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor
Producer: Jimmy Miller
Bass: Bill Wyman
Drums: Charlie Watts
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Acoustic Guitar: Keith Richards
Electric Guitar: Keith Richards, Mick Taylor
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Trumpet: Jim Price