Edit 5 for headphones, June 2023. Lyrics video by AbkcoVevo, a mesmerizing & extremely creatively thought up piece of art.
"We Love You" (official lyric video): https://youtu.be/PEB5P-4V81M
Directed by: Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy at Yes Please Productions.
Executive producer: Julian Klein.
Producer: Dina Kanner.
(C) 2020 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Source of the edit is the compilation album: "Grrr!" (2012 super deluxe edition, label: Universal Music - catalog nr.: 3719577).
Wikipedia says: "We Love You" embraces a strong anti-establishment attitude, proclaiming "we don't care if you hound we and lock the doors around we" and "you will never win we, your uniforms don't fit we." [Well, ruudtes says about the same to the music corporations...]
The song was a message from the band to their fans, expressing appreciation for support in the wake of their recent drug busts, yet it was also a slap in the faces of the police harassing them and the Stones' true feelings about this (as is represented by Jones' surreal Mellotron playing).
Mellotron and brass: Brian Jones. Piano: Nicky Hopkins. Lead vocals: Mick Jagger. Guitars: Keith Richards. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Backing vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Like in so many many songs in the early Stones era (t.e.s.e.) it was Brian Jones' who did the trick of making this stand out: studio engineer George Chkiantz said that even though there was a delay between hitting the note and the sound coming out of the Mellotron, Brian Jones managed to get "a tight rhythmic punch" for the track.
WE LOVE YOU
(Jagger/Richards)
we don't care if you'd only love we
we don't care if you'd only love we
we love you, we love you
and we hope that you will love we too
we love they, we love they
and we want you to love they too
aaa h...
we don't care if you hound we
and lock the doors around we
locked it in our minds 'caus we love you
we love you
you will never win we
your uniforms don't fit we
we forget the place we're in 'cause we love you
we love you, of course, we do
I love you
I love you
and I hope that you are groovin' too
we love you, we do
we love you, we do
aaah... aaah... aaah... aaah...
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