Gimme Shelter

[wr: Rolling Stones.
Mighty Diamonds also credited - for the "I need a roof" sample?
Gary Clail of the On-U Sound System and Rankin' Roger take additional vocal credits.]

Walking past the repossessed houses....
Finding no comfort in the city (x2)
No comfort in the city

Oh a storm is threatening my very life today
If I don't get some shelter, yeah, I'm gonna fade away

[CHORUS]
War, children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away (x2)

See the fire sweeping our very streets today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

[CHORUS]

"I need a roof over my head (x3)
And bread on my table"

We see homeless people there on the street
Can't find a bite or nothing to eat
Shelter they want and shelter they need
While everybody's living in a world of greed

In-a Birmingham or in-a London
If they be American or they come from Japan
In the whole wide world there's tribulation
Everybody happy-feely to the foundation - tell them!

The blood is threatening my very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter or I'm gonna fade away

[CHORUS]

Out there, out there in the cold
They thought that the streets were paved with gold
Breathing in the cardboard in this land of hope and glory
Their stark faces tell another story
Finding no comfort in the city (x2)

War, children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away (x3)