What in the heck is this song about?

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The Rolling Stones-"Please Go Home"
Recorded 11/12 1966 during the Between the Buttons sessions
(released in U.S. on the Flowers album)

Please go home
Please go home

Well maybe I'm talkin' too fast
But I won't be the first or the last
In the sea of the thousand you cast
C'mon, please go home

I don't have to ask what you do
I just have to look to get you
Means nothing to me to get through
Please go home

I don't want to be on my own
'Cause I can't talk much better alone
But I don't have to ring like a phone
Won't you please go home

In some early part of your days
You were told of the devious ways
That you thought you could get without pay
Won't you please go home

You reach a state of your mind
Where it's madness to look and to find
Your false affections so kind
Please go home

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

something about being Mick Jagger and being bored by your ability to pull chicks without much effort.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm. So, in the fifth verse, he's singing about himself?

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

vampires

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

mick addressing a groupie?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 9 April 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It means "I'm tired/so tired/ of haaaaaving sex"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 9 April 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It reminds me of Lenny Kravitz.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 9 April 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

3 minutes and 18 seconds

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 9 April 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mick addressing a groupie?/It means 'I'm tired/so tired/ of haaaaaving sex'"

First verse-OK, but why is he saying, "Maybe I'm talkin' too fast?"

Second verse-"Get through" would be an odd euphemism for sex (though it does rhyme).

Third verse-In the first line, he's now saying that he DOESN'T want to be alone (nothing else about these apparent mixed feelings). I don't understand the second and third lines at all.

Fourth verse-The sentence "In some early part of your days, you were told of the devious ways that you thought you could get without pay" doesn't make any sense to me.

Fifth verse-Again, I can see how it fits your suggestions if he is suddenly talking about himself here--a sort of philosophical aside.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 9 April 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like, yes, it's a meditation on the experience of shagging different groupies every night, and wishing they'd just piss off afterwards instead of trying to hang on. This verse is the odd one:

In some early part of your days
You were told of the devious ways
That you thought you could get without pay
Won't you please go home

I'm wondering if this is a complaint about ligging.

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Friday, 9 April 2004 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

prostitution

― ___ (___), Friday, 9 April 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"First verse-OK, but why is he saying, "Maybe I'm talkin' too fast?""

"Are you stupid?" or "Fek, those drugs are speeding me up."

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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