I Feel This Way Sometimes...

09.14.06 (8:39 pm)   [edit]
Jimi Hendrix
1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)


Hurrah i awake from yesterday
alive but the war is here to stay
so my love Catherina and me
decide to take our last walk
through the noise to the sea
not to die but to be re-born
away from a life so battered and torn...
forever...

oh say can you see its really such a mess
every inch of earth is a fighting nest
giant pencil and lip-stick tube shaped things
continue to rain and cause screaming pain
and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
as our feet find the sand
and the sea is straight ahead...
straight ahead.....

well it's too bad
that our friends
can't be with us today
well that's too bad
the machine that we built would never save us
thats what they say
(thats why they ain't coming with us today)
and they also said
its impossible for man
to live and breath underwater... forever
was their main complaint

and they also threw this in my face:
they said
anyway
you know good and well
it would be beyond the will of God
and the grace of the King

so my darling and I
make love in the sand
to salute the last moment ever on dry land
our machine has done its work
played its part well
without a scratch on our bodies
and we bid it farewell

starfish and giant foams
greet us with a smile
before our heads go under
we take a last look
at the killing noise
of the out of style...
the out of style, out of style



posted by: thecyberwriter (reply)
post date: 09.14.06 (6:26 pm)

You gotta love Hendrix! I never heard this song before, but I'll certainly have to look for it :-)



posted by: eraserhead667 (reply)
post date: 09.15.06 (3:50 am)

It's on Electric Ladyland and is part of a long sequence of songs that is some of the best shit he ever did.

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