Oh, a storm is threatning
My very life today
If I dont get some shelter
Oh yeah, Im gonna fade away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Rape, murder!
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Rape, murder!
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Rape, murder!
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
The floods is threatning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or Im gonna fade away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, its just a kiss away
Its just a kiss away
Its just a kiss away
Its just a kiss away
Its just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
I 1969 udkom Rolling Stones’ Let it Bleed, som Mick Jagger har omtalt som et apokalyptisk album. Tanken om verdens undergang, apokalypsen, knyttede an til den periode blandt andet på grund af Vietnam-krigen – og hele det atomare perspektiv, som koldkrigsperioden var svanger med. Og i sangen Gimme Shelter sætter Vietnam-krigen sig sine tydelige spor. Krigen er kun et skud borte. Og kærligheden – et kys… En af Rolling Stones’ bedste sange.