When Bill Wyman began fooling around on the organ during the session doing a takeoff of their original as a spoof of music played at Jewish weddings. The Rolling Stones wrote this as a much slower, conventional soul song. “If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes” – This refers to her in Heaven. “I could not foresee this thing happening to you” – It was an unexpected and sudden death. He talks about his heart being black because of his loss. “With flowers and my love both never to come back” – The flowers from the funeral and her in the hearse. “I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black” – The hearse and limos. The song seems to be about a lover who died: It’s not an original thought by any means. When asked at the time why he wrote a song about death, Mick Jagger replied: “I don’t know. There was no specific inspiration for the lyrics. This is written from the viewpoint of a person who is depressed he wants everything to turn black to match his mood.
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