Released on May 5, 2026. Then release on the album, Foreign Tongues, on July 10, 2026.

Mick Jagger – Lead and Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Harmonica; Keith Richards – Electric Guitar; Ronnie Wood – Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar; With: Matt Clifford – Piano, Organ; Steve Jordan – Drums; Andrew Watt – Backing Vocal, Electric Guitar; Ben Waters - Piano; James King - Tenor Saxophone.

ROUGH AND TWISTED
(Jagger/Richards)

Yeah, why don't you drive me
Down that rough and twisted road?
Why don't you guide me?
'Cause I don't know which way to go
Promise to take me
Yeah, to where the water glows
Somewhere, somewhere down to Puerto Rico
Where the tide just ebbs and flows

Flash me all your jewelry, poetry and friends
Promise me a dance like Nijinsky
Nothing, nothing, nothing but a false pretense

Yeah, all you feed me
Was just rancid ricе and bones
All I drank was Muddy Waters
As lonely as a saxophonе
Why don't you take me
To where I wanna go?
To Natchez, Mississippi Sicily and Rome

You just took me to a flyblown town
In the back of nowhere
Smell was acrid, toxic
Couldn't breathe the air
The only club was called Conspiracy
They didn't like me much
What they wanted was tyranny
And all that crazy, crazy, fucked up stuff

Why don't you drive me
Take me where you wanna go
Yeah, why don't you take me
Down those rough and twisted roads, yes!
Why don't you teach me
Teach me all those foreign tongues... Yeah!
Why don't you take me
'Cause I'm deaf and blind and dumb

Yeah, drive me
Yeah, drive me
Where I wanna go
Drive me
Take me where I wanna
Take me where I wanna
Take me where I wanna go

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