善人顔のミックテイラーが脱退し、ストーンズにぴったりの顔のロンウッドが加入した最初のアルバム。なかでも秀逸なのがこのMemory Motelだ。ストーンズが唄うバラードもいいですね。
Hannah baby was a peachy kind of girl
Her eyes were hazel and her teech was slightly curved
We spent a lonely night at the Memory Motel
It's on the ocean I guess you know it well
It took a starry night to steal my breath away
Down on the waterfront her hair all drenched in spray
Hannah baby was a honey of a girl
Her eyes were hazel her teeth were slightly curved
She took my guitar and she began to play
She sang a song to me, stuck right in my brain
You're just a memory of a love that used to be
You're just a memory of a love that used to mean so much to me
She got a mind of her own and she use it well, yeah
Well she's one of a kind got a mind
She got a mind of her own, yeah, and she use it mighty fine (*)
She drove a pick-up truck painted green and blue
The tires were wearing thin she done a mile or two
And when I asked her where she headed for
(Back up to Boston I'm singing in a bar)
I got to fly today on down to Baton Rouge
My nerves are shot already the road ain't all that smooth
Across in Texas is the rose of San Antone
I keep on a feeling that gnawing in my bones
(* repeat)
She got a mind of her own
And she use it well
Mighty fine, she's one of a kind
On the seventh day my eyes were all a glaze
We've been ten thousand miles been in fifteen states
Every woman seemed to fade out of my mind
I hit the bottle and hit the sack and cried
What's all this laughter on the 22nd floor
It's just some friends of mine
And they're busting down the door
Been a lonely night at the Memory Motel
(* repeat )
hit the bottle and hit the sack = 酒をあおってベッドに倒れこむ
busting down the door = ドアを蹴破る
アメリカツアー中の一夜を唄ったものだろうか。海辺のそそり立つ崖に１軒ぽつんとあるモーテルの情景が目に浮かぶ。アメリカ人ならもっとその情景が浮かぶだろう。
これしかない後年のライブ映像を見てみよう。歌詞がところどころ違うのはご愛嬌か。
誰にでもマイ・メモリー・モーテルがある。。。
