19th Nervous Breakdown


You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal, dull affairs.
Center of a crowd, talking much too loud
running up and down the stairs.
Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years.
And though you've tried you just can't hide your eyes are edged with tears.

You better stop, look around
here it comes, here it comes, here it comes,
Here it comes. Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.

When you were a child you were treated kind
But you were never brought up right.
You were always spoiled with a thousand toys
but still you cried all night.
Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax.
And your father's still perfecting ways of making ceiling wax.

You better stop, look around
here it comes, here it comes, here it comes,
Here it comes. Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.

Oh, who's to blame, that girl's just insane.
Well nothing I do don't seem to work,
It only seems to make matters worse. Oh please.

You were still in school when you had that
fool who really messed your mind.
And after that you turned your back on treating people kind.
On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind.
But after while I realized you were disarranging mine.

You better stop, look around
here it comes, here it comes, here it comes,
Here it comes. Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.

Legend has it that the title of this song comes from a comment by Mick Jagger about being on his "19th nervous breakdown" after all the excitement of the last couple of years. Some have said that the comment was about Brian Jones who, never being very stable, was already showing a little wear and tear. Whatever the origin, the song was recorded in December 1965 in Hollywood and released in the UK on February 4, 1966.

To me, this song features the perfect 60s sound it could not have been recorded at any other time. Great guitars and an interesting bass line. 19th Nervous Breakdown is a condemnation of neurotic upper class girls, some of whom flocked to the Stones in petty rebellion. These girls "have seen to much in too few years." They have the

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