a storm is threat'ning My very life today If I don't get some shelter
Oh 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
see the fire is sweepin' My very street today Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its 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
The floods is threat'ning 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 It's just a shot away It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away Kiss away, kiss away (sing365)
This is about the political and social unrest at the time. There was the war in Vietnam, race riots, and Charles Manson. Mick Jagger sings of needing shelter from this "Storm." (songfacts)
Charles Milles Manson is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBiancamurders carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's object.
Manson believed in what he called "Helter Skelter," a term he took from the song of the same name by The Beatles. Manson believed Helter Skelter to be an impending apocalyptic race war, which he described in his own version of the lyrics to the Beatles' song. He believed his murders would help precipitate that war. From the beginning of his notoriety, a pop culture arose around him in which he ultimately became an emblem of insanity, violence and the macabre. The term was later used by Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi as the title of a book he wrote about the Manson murders.
At the time the Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict, who had spent half of his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. Before the murders, he was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, founding member and drummer of The Beach Boys. After Manson was charged with the crimes he was later convicted of, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially. Artists, including Guns N' Roses, White Zombieand Marilyn Manson, have covered his songs.
Manson's death sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment when a 1972 decision by the Supreme Court of Californiatemporarily eliminated the state's death penalty. California's eventual reinstatement of capital punishment did not affect Manson, who is currently incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison. (wikipedia)
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