The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The morning is dead And the day is, too There’s nothing left here to meet me But the velvet moon All my loneliness i have felt today It’s like a little more than enough To make a man throw himself away And i continue To burn the midnight lamp Alone Now the smiling portrait of…

There must be some kind of way out of here Said the joker to the thief There’s too much confusion I can’t get no relief Business men, they, they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth None will level on the line Nobody offered his word, hey No reason to get excited The thief, he…

After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footsteps dressed in red And the wind whispers mary A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has…

You jump in front of my car When you, you know all the time That ninety miles an hour, girl Is the speed i drive You tell me it’s alright You don’t mind a little pain You say you just want me to Take you for a drive You’re just like (crosstown traffic) so hard…

Everyday in the week, i’m in a different city If i stay too long, the people try to pull me down They talk about me like a dog, talk about the clothes i wear But they don’t realize they’re the ones who’s square Hey, and that’s why you can’t hold me down I don’t want…

I just want to talk to you I won’t uh, do you no harm I just want to know about your different lives On this here people farm I heard some of you got your families Living in cages, tall and cold And some just stay there and, dust away Past the age of old…

Down the street you can hear her scream “you’re a disgrace” As she slams the door in his drunken face And now he stands outside and all the neighbors start to gossip and drool He cries “oh girl, you must be mad What happened to the sweet love you and me had?” Against the door…

Anger, he smiles Towering in shiny metallic purple armor Queen jealousy, envy waits behind him Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted They quietly understand Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready But wonder why the fight is on But they’re all bold as love…

Well, i stand up next to a mountain And i chop it down with the edge of my hand Yeah Well, i stand up next to a mountain And i chop it down with the edge of my hand Well, i pick up all the pieces and make an island Might even raise a little…

Hey joe, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand? Hey joe, i said, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand? I’m goin’ down to shoot my old lady You know i caught her messin’ ’round with another man Yeah, i’m goin’ down to shoot my old lady You know i caught…