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Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones

Bass Tab

Very nice in accoustic.... ;)

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Have Fun
        Chris.

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture drew Wanna Be	#1 by drew peckover at Feb 2, 1978 at 6:48 PM EST
	This and Wild Horses are my two favorite Stones songs. I think this song is about someone who changed, like now they think they're better than a former lover or someone like that. But the two still kind of have a connection. I don't know, I'm probably wrong.

No Picture Herold Wanna Be	#2 by Herold Beddingfield at Jun 20, 1981 at 9:06 AM EST
	There are many songs credited to "Jagger-Richards" that were in fact written entirely by Keith Richards. I'm not sure if this is one of them but I suspect it is. I do know that the country turn they took in this song and a couple from Exile on Main St. were inspired by Keith's best friend at the time Gram Parsons.

No Picture Michael Rhythm Player	#3 by Michael Roysdon at Jun 4, 1984 at 3:26 AM EST
	I am a city feller transplanted in Arkansas. I always thought it would be hilarious if a DJ would slip this song into the middle of a classic country set. It is so country-western, but with these drug laced sarcastic laconic words and un-middle-american images. It also reminds me of a friend who strangely use(s)(d) needles, loves women, lived some time in Kentucky, and loves horses/gambling. He is smart, funny and "gets it" but is a real puzzle with the Thanatos thing. I always think about John for a minute when I hear this song...It is probably about as good as any great country-western song and that is just a side-line for the Stones!

No Picture jocke Average	#4 by jocke ström at Oct 31, 1988 at 1:00 PM EST
	yeah i love this song. i can play it aswell. i always sing it bitterly, not on purpose. i think its like 'you can have a perfect life and ignore me. your lucky you dont have pain to numb by harming yourself'(heroin and casual sex). favorite part of the song is 'I'll be in my basement room With a needle and a spoon And another girl can take my pain away'.

No Picture Brandon Rhythm Player	#5 by Brandon Winfrey at Feb 11, 1989 at 2:45 AM EST
	Right, wwb. That's the deeper meaning here, I think. Making a few obvious references to drugs doesn't necessarily make the entire song about drugs as sirdon has suggested. Maybe he's right though, it's not nearly as ridiculous a stretch to say this is a drug song as the stretches I've seen on other song explanations.

No Picture william Average	#6 by william at Jan 14, 1990 at 7:41 AM EST
	"Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day" Hearing this at Churchill Downs September 29th of this year was a classic :-)

No Picture Claus Average	#7 by Claus Kronmueller at Nov 5, 1991 at 7:47 AM EST
	This song is Keith Richard's "ode to heroin." "Little Susie" is a reference to the "brown-eyed susan" which is a metaphor for brown heroin, one of the more common forms of the opiate. "Roses" is yet another flower which has been used as a metaphor or "street slang" for many years to allude to heroin. "Dead Flowers" in general means "poppies which have been harvested and from which the opiate has been derived." The power of heroin to kill pain is legendary -including the emotional pain from a broken relationship. In the 1960's and 70's one way to deliver heroin was to place small amounts in a letter and use the US Postal System. Back then, before the days of technology to detect narcotics in the mail, and in the days when the American political system actually observed people's rights to 4th amendment privacy, heroin could be sent through the mail virtually risk-free to either the sender or the receiver.

No Picture Jimmy Wanna Be	#8 by Jimmy Withrow at Sep 18, 1994 at 6:30 PM EST
	this song is saying: it's okay if you've forgotten about me and now you treat me like shit, i still love you.

No Picture Sinan90 Average	#9 by Sinan90 at Jan 10, 2003 at 3:55 AM EST
	OK so I totally think it's funny that some bigger Sotnes fan than me didn't put the meaning behind this song up here. K so Mick was dating royalty in England, and she dumped him and broke his heart. Only because rock artist were looked down upon. This song is about her, like most of the songs are on this album. He was the only guy in the band who didn't get knighted by the queen... Hey I'm 16 and I can play this song, I love this song, I love this band, and no one is better.

No Picture Tyrone Wanna Be	#10 by Tyrone Pinson at Jan 13, 2003 at 10:56 PM EST
	a nice ol' country tune, i like it though

No Picture Adam Average	#11 by Adam Favro at May 28, 2003 at 3:00 AM EST
	i love this song, just smiling in the face of all the people that piss you off.

No Picture Ross Average	#12 by Ross Kennedy at Jul 18, 2006 at 4:36 AM EST
	its true that too many people say every song is about heroin, but this one is pretty obvious - you dont use a needle and a spoon for sewing and eating soup...