The Rolling Stones: Ruby Tuesday Meaning

Song Released: 1966

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Ruby Tuesday Lyrics

She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don’t matter if it’s gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows
She comes and goes

Goodbye, ruby tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every...

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   anonymous

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   Nov 26th 2007, 17:16 report

   
   

   It's about Keith Richard's first girlfriend Linda Keith. who was a model, and was addicted to drugs, and the song is about how she never knew what she wanted...
   
   Keith Richards wrote it.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Oct 3rd 2011, 00:52 report

   
   

   
   Its a love song about a man who suspects that his girlfriend is a prostitute who is hooked on drugs (no one knows, she comes and goes) she never tells him that she is a hooker who uses dope everyday and has slept with hundreds of jons. So he is deeply head over heels in love with her.

   
   
   
   

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   CPR

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   Dec 25th 2009, 21:26 report

   
   

   This song is about how unconditionally he loved a woman
   (probably a groupie).
   
   This woman (he probably didn't know her name>> Who could hang name on you?) was constantly moving and changing her mind but he would always love her.
   
   It's also about not wasting time, and not giving up dreams.

   
   
   
   

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   CPR

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   Dec 4th 2009, 21:25 report

   
   

   "Ruby Tuesday" was a groupie

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Apr 20th 2008, 22:49 report

   
   

   Actually Mick Jagger and Brian Jones wrote it but it was credited Jagger/Richards

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   anonymous

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   Apr 2nd 2008, 15:27 report

   
   

   This song's about regretting losing someone you loved but could never keep because they were constantly seeking some new thing to fill their lives, a new experience, place, feeling or love. It's basically about accepting that you were in love but it could never last.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Sep 5th 2007, 22:52 report

   
   

   The song reminds me of the positive human experience of feeling the renewed hope or promise that each new day brings and perhaps at the end of the day a momentary sense of loss. She is both beginning and the end.
   
   So why Tuesday & why ruby? Etymolically Middle English Tuesdai, from Old English Twesdæg, Tiu's day : Twes, genitive of Tw, Tiu; see Tiu + dæg, day (translation of Latin dis Mrtis, Mars' day). The ruby red planet. Astrologically Mars represents spontaneous action, desire, ones personal identity and creativity & Mars represents the beginning and the end.
   
   Juxtaposition parallels in the song both by the sexual significance of Mars the male sign planet and by the use of she in the song and by the harsh reality of that time day of mediocrity and by ones own dreams and desires of perfection.

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   Jan 22nd 2007, 23:32 report

   
   

   Psh, I seriously just think it's about drugs. I'm probably not wrong, either.

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   anonymous

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   Apr 18th 2006, 20:46 report

   
   

   This song is about a girl, and she had a dream where she slept with Jagger. Then she ends up meeting him, and they sleep together, and she realizes that he's not all she wants in life." don't catch your dreams before they drift away" and Jagger ended up liking this girl, but she ended up leaving because she wanted more in life. So Jagger is singing this song because she's gone, and he'll never see her again because he barely knew her. " she would never say were she came from" and yet he felt as if there could have been more than just sex between them

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