Highwire
Rolling Stones

We sell 'em missiles, we sell 'em tanks

We give 'em credit, you can call the bank

It's just a business, you can pay us in crude

You love these toys, just go play out your feuds

Got no pride, don't know whose boots to lick

We act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick

So get up, stand up, out of my way

I want to talk to the boss right away

Get up, stand up, whose gonna pay

I want to talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire

Sending the men up to the front line

Hoping they don't catch the hell fire

With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire

Sending the men up to the front line

And tell 'em to hotbed the sunshine

With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Our lives are threatened, our jobs at risk

Sometimes dictators need a slap on the wrist

Another Munich we just can't afford

We're gonna send in the eighty-second airborne

Get up, stand up, who's gonna pay

I want to talk to the boss right away

Get up, stand up, outta my way

I want to talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire

Putting the world out on a deadline

And hoping they don't catch the shellfire

With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire

Putting the world out on a deadline

Catching the bite on prime time

With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Get up! Stand up!

Dealer! Stealer!

We walk the highwire

We send all our men into the front lines

We're hoping that we backed the right side

With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire

We send all the men up to the front lines

And hoping they don't catch the hellfire

With hot guns and cold cold, cold, cold,

Cold nights

We walk the highwire

We walk the highwire

With hot guns and cold, cold, cold nights

With hot guns and cold, cold nights


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  Outta Space   That's Life   (i Can't Get No) Satisfaction   (Walkin' Thru The) Sleepy City   (Walking Thru The) Sleepy City   100 Years Ago   19th Nervous Breakdown   2000 Light Years From Home   2000 Man   A Quick One While He's Away (The Who)   Ain't That A Lot Of Love   Ain't That Loving You Baby   AIN'T TO PROUD TO BEG   Ain't Too Proud To Beg   Ain't That A Lot Of Love   Ain't Too Proud To Beg   Ain’t That Loving You Baby   All About You   All Down The Line   All I Want Is My Baby   All Mixed Up   All Of Your Love   All Sold Out   All The Way Down   Almost Hear You Sigh   Already Over Me   Always Suffering   Andrew's Blues   Andrew's Blues   Angie   Anybody Seen My Baby   Anybody Seen My Baby?   Anyway You Look At It   Around And Around   Around And Around (EP)   As Tears Go By   Baby Break It Down   Baby, What's Wrong   Baby, What’s Wrong   Back Of My Hand   Back Street Girl*   Back To Zero   Backstreet Girl   Beast Of Burden   Beautiful Delilah   Before They Make Me   Before They Make Me Run   Biggest Mistake   Bitch   Black Angel   Black Limousine   Blinded By Love   Blinded By Rainbows   Blood Red Wine   Blue And Lonesome   Blue Turns To Grey   Boggie Chillun   Boogie Chillun   Brand New Car   Break The Spell   Bright Lights Big City   Brown eyed girl   Brown Sugar   Brown Sugar [Top of the Pops Performance 1971]   Bye Bye Johnny   C'mon Everybody   Can I Get A Witness   Can You Hear The Music   Can't Always Get What You Want   Can't Be Seen   Can't Get Next To You   Can't You Hear Me Knockin'   Can't You Hear Me Knocking   Can't Be Seen   Can’t Get Next To You   Carol   Casino Boogie   Champagne & Reefer   Chantilly Lace   Cherry Oh Baby   Child Of The Moon   Child Of The Moon (rmk)   Citadel   Claudine   Cocksucker Blues   Coll, Calm & Collected   Come On   Come Together   Coming Down Again   Commit A Crime   Complicated   Con Le Mie Lacrime   Confessin' The Blues   Confessin' The Blues   Congratulations   Connection   Continental Drift   Cook Cook Blues   Cool Calm And Collected   Cool, Calmed & Collected   Cops And Robbers   Cops And Robbers BBC Session   Corinna   Country Honk   Crackin' Up   Crackin' Up (Live)   Crackin’ Up   Crazy Mama   Criss Cross Man   Cry To Me   Da Doo Ron Ron   Dance (part I)   Dance (Pt 1)   Dance (Pt. 1)   Dance Little Sister   Dancing With Mister D.   Dancing With Mr. D   Dandelion   Dangerous Beauty   Dead Flowers   Dear Doctor   Diddley Daddy   Dirty Work   Do You Really Think I Care?   Do You Think I Really Care?   Don't Lie To Me   Don't Look Back   Don't Stop   Don\u2019t Be a Stranger   Don't Stop   Don’t Lie To Me   Don’t Look Back   Doncha Bother Me   Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)   Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (heartbreaker)   Doom and Gloom   Down Home Girl   Down In The Bottom   Down In The Hole   Down The Road Apiece   Downtown Suzie   Drift Away   Driving Too Fast   Each & Every Day Of The Year   Each And Every Day Of The Year   Emotional Rescue   Empty Heart   Everybody Knows About My Good Thing   Everybody Needs Somebody To Love   Everybody Needs Someone To Love   Everyday I Have The Blues   Everything Is Turning To Gold   Exile On Mainstreet Blues   Factory Girl   Family   Fancy Man Blues   Fancyman Blues   Fanny Mae   Far Away Eyes   Faraway Eyes   Feel On Baby   Fight   Fiji Gin   Fingerprint File   Flight 505   Flip The Switch   Fool To Cry   Fortune Teller   Gangster's Maul   Gangster’s Maul   Get Off My Cloud   Get Off Of My Cloud   Gimme Shelter   Gimme Shelter (Live)   Gimme Some Loving   Gimmie Shelter   Girl From The North Country   Give Me Your Hand (and I'll Hold It Tight)   Gloom And Doom   Going Home   Going To A Go Go   Going To A Go-Go   Gomper   Good Time Women   Good Times   Good Times, Bad Times   Goodbye Girl   Gotta Get Away   Grown Up Wrong   Gunface   Had It With You   Hand Of Fate   Hang Fire   Happy   Harlem Shuffle   Hate to See You Go   Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Sh...   Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Sh...   Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (standing In The S...   Heart Of Stone   Heartbreaker   Hearts For Sale   Heaven   Hey Crawdaddy   Hey Negrita   Hey, Negrita   Hide Your Love   High And Dry   High-heel Sneakers   Highway 49   Hip Shake   Hitch Hike   Hold Back   Hold On To Your Hat   Honest I Do   Honest Man   Honky Tonk Woman   Honky Tonk Woman (Live)   Honky Tonk Women   Hoo Doo Blues   Hot Stuff   Hound Dog   House Of The Rising Sun   How Can I Stop   I Ain't Superstitious   I Ain’t Superstitious   I Am Waiting   I Can't Be Satisfied   I Can't Help It   I Can't Quit You Baby   I Can't Be Satisfied   I Can’t Help It   I Don't Know Why   I Don't Know Why (Don't Know Why I Love You)   I Get A Kick Out Of You   I Get Around   I Go Wild   I Got The Blues   I Gotta Go   I Just Wanna Make Love To You [live]   I Just Want To Make Love To You   I Just Want To See His Face   I Love Rock N' Roll   I Love Rock N' Roll   I Love You Too Much   I Wanna Be Your Man   I Want To Be Loved   I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys   I'm A Country Boy   I'm A King Bee   I'm All Right   I'm Alright   I'm Free   I'm Going Down   I'm Gonna Drive   I'm Moving On   I'm Not Signifying   I'm Yours, I'm Hers   I've Been Loving You Too Long   I'm A King Bee   I'm Free   I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys   I’m Going Down   I’m Gonna Drive   If I Was A Dancer   If I Was A Dancer (dance Part 2)   If I Was A Dancer (Dance Pt 2)   If I Was A Dancer, Pt2   If you can t rock meget off of my cloud   If You Can't Rock Me   If You Can't Rock Me \/ Get Off My Cloud   If You Can’t Rock Me   If You Let Me   If You Need Me   If You Really Want To Be My Friend   Imagination   In Another Land   Indian Girl   Infamy   Intro Excerpt From Fanfare For The Common Man   Intro: Excerpt From 'Fanfare For The Common Man'   Intro: Take the 'A' Train   Invitation   It Hurts Me Too   It Must Be Hell   It Should Be You   It Takes A Lot To Laugh   It Won't Take Long   It Won\u00c2\u00b4t Take Long   It's All Over Now   It's Not Easy   It's Only Rock 'n Roll (but I Like It)   It's Only Rock 'N' Roll   It's Only Rock N Roll   It's All Over Now   Ivy League   Jig-Saw Puzzle   Jiving Sister Fanny   John Wesley Harding   Jump On Top Of Me   Jumpin' Jack Flash   Jumping Jack Flash   Jumpinu2019 Jack Flash   Just Like I Treat You   Just My Imagination   Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)   Just Want To See His Face   Just Your Fool   Keys To Your Love   Lady Jane   Land Of 1000 Dances   Laugh, I Nearly Died   Let It Bleed   Let It Loose   Let It Rock   Let Me Down Slow   Let Me Go   Let's Spend The Night Together   Let's Spend The Night Together   Lies   Like A Rolling Stone   Linda Lu   Little Baby   Little By Little   Little Queenie   Little Rain   Little Red Rooster   Little T & A   Little T & A   Live With Me   Live With Me (Live)   Long Long While   Long, Long While   Look What The Cat Dragged In   Look What You've Done   Look What You've Done   Looking Tired   Losing My Touch   Love In Vain   Love Is Strong   Loving Cup   Low Down   Luxury   Mannish Boy   Mean Disposition   Melody   Memo From Turner   Memory Motel   Memphis Tennessee   Mercy Mercy   Midnight Rambler   Midnight Rambler (Live)   Might As Well Get Juiced   Miss Amanda Jones   Miss You   Miss You (dr. Dre Remix 2002)   Miss You [dance Version]   Mixed Emotions   Mixed Emotions Iv   Mona (i Need You Baby)   Money   Monkey Man   Monkey Man (Live)   Moon Is Up   Moonlight Mile   Mother's Little Helper   Mother's Little Helper   My Girl   My Obsession   Nearness Of You   Neighbors   Neighbours   New Faces   No Expectations   No Spare Parts   No Use In Crying   Not Fade Away   Nothing From Nothing   Off The Hook   Oh Baby (we Got A Good Thing Goin')   Oh No, Not You Again   On With The Show   One Hit (to The Body)   One Last Shot   One More Shot   One More Try   Out Of Control   Out Of Tears   Out Of Time   Pain In My Heart   Paint It Black   Parachute Woman   Pay Your Dues   Petrol Gang   Play With Fire   Please Accept My Love   Please Go Home   Please Please Me   Plundered My Soul   Poison Ivy   Pretty Beat Up   Prodigal Son   Proud Mary   Rain Fall Down   Rain Fell Down   Respectable   Ride 'Em On Down   Ride On, Baby   Rip This Joint   Road Runner   Rock And A Hard Place   Rock Me, Baby   Rocks Off   Roll Over Beethoven   Rough Justice   Route 66   Route 66 BBC Session   Ruby Tuesday   Sad Day   Sad Sad Sad   Saint Of Me   Salt Of The Earth   Satisfaction   Satisfaction (i Can't Get No)   Send It To Me   Sex Drive   Shake Your Hips   Shang A Doo Lang   Shattered   She Said Yeah   She Saw Me Coming   She Smile Sweetly   She Smiled Sweetly   She Was Hot   She's A Rainbow   She's So Cold   She's A Rainbow   She's So Cold   Shine A Light   Short And Curlies   Silver Train   Sing This All Together   Sing This All Together (See What Happens)   Sister Morphine   Sittin' On A Fence   Sitting On A Fence   Slave   Sleep Tonight   Sleepy City (walkin' Thru The)   Slipping Away   So Much In Love   So Young   Some Girls   Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind   Something Better (Marianne Faithfull)   Something Happened To Me Yesterday   Somethings Just Stick In Your Mind   Song For Jeffrey (Jethro Tull)   Soul Survivor   Sparks Will Fly   Star Star   Starfucker   Start Me Up   Stealing My Heart   Still A Fool   Stoned   Stop Breaking Down   Stray Cat Blues   Street Fighting Man   Streets Of Love   Strictly Memphis   Stuck Out All Alone   Stupid Girl   Suck On The Jugular   Summer Romance   Summertime Blues   Surprise, Surprise   Susie Q   Susie Q*   Sway   Sweet Black Angel   Sweet Little Sixteen   Sweet Neo Con   Sweet Soul Music   Sweet Virginia   Sweethearts Together   Sympathy For The Devil   Take It Or Leave It   Talkin' About You   Tell Me   Tell Me (you're Coming Back)   Terrifying   That Girl Belongs To Yesterday   That s Wrong Little Mama   That's How Strong My Love Is   That's How Strong My Love Is   The Harder They Come   The Lantern   The Last Time   The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin'   The Singer Not The Song   The Spider And The Fly   The Storm   The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man   The Worst   Thief In The Night   Think   This Place Is Empty   Through The Lonely Nights   Thru And Thru   Tie You Up (the Pain Of Love)   Till The Next Goodbye   Time Is On My Side   Time Waits For No One   Too Much Blood   Too Rude   Too Tight   Too Tough   Tops   Torn And Frayed   Tried To Talk Her Into It   Try A Little Harder   Tumbleing Dice   Tumbling Dice   Turd On The Run   Twenty Flight Rock   Under My Thumb   Under The Boardwalk   Undercover Of The Night   Uptight   Ventilator Blues   Waiting On A Friend   Wake Up In The Morning   Walking The Dog   Wanna Hold You   We Had It All   We Love You   We Want the Stones   We're Wastin' Time   We're Wasting Time   What A Shame   What To Do   When The Whip Comes Down   When The Whip Comes Down (Live Version)   Where The Boys Go   Who Do You Love?   Who's Been Sleeping Here   Who's Driving Your Plane?   Who's Been Sleeping Here?   Who's Driving Your Plane?   Why I Sing The Blues   Wild Horses   Wild Horses [stripped Version]   Will You Be My Lover Tonight?   Winning Ugly   Winter   Wish I Never Met You   Wish I'd Never Met You   Worried About You   Yer Blues (The Dirty Mac)   Yesterday's Papers   Yesterday's Papers   You Better Move On   You Better Move On BBC Session   You Can Make It If You Try   You Can't Always Get What You Want   You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling S...   You Can't Always Get What You Want (Live)   You Can't Catch Me   You Can't Always Get What You Want   You Can't Catch Me   You Don't Have To Mean It   You Got Me Rocking   You Got The Silver   You Gotta Move   You Gotta Move (Live)   You Must Be The One   Zip Mouth Angel

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