Rod Thomas wrote > There's one song on the CD however that has me and my wife scratching >our respective heads. It's entitled "You got my nose open". That line is >repeated often in the song, and it's an expression I've never heard before. >He seems to be admonishing his woman with the phrase. Before I can sing >the song in public I better find out what it means. Any takers?
I can't answer your question but I can give it an historical dimension. I haven't listened to either of these songs for a long time but memory tells me that in the translation from the Valentinos' 'It's all over now' to the Rolling Stones version of the song the lyric 'You got my nose open' got cleaned up into something suitably comprehensible for a British audience, eyes open perhaps (presumably Jagger didn't know what it meant either). If you get no joy here, try Blues-L, they love their idiom over there. Good luck, Tony May
