mocachapeau
Dagobah Resident
I was 15 years old the first time I heard something by Jimi, other than the popular Purple Haze/Foxy Lady stuff, and it really blew me away. It was a tune called Who Knows from the live album, A Band of Gypsies. So I decided I had to get a Hendrix album, something I had never heard before. A friend recommended Axis: Bold as Love so I went out and bought it, on vinyl.
The album starts out with this really wild minute-and-a-half feedback routine, and then surprises you with the grooviest Hendrix tune I've ever heard. It's a very subtle, laid back shuffle with a tasteful wah wah guitar rhythm, with him singing in a smooth, quiet voice. I would have to describe the feel as being too cool for words. It is nothing at all like the kind of thing that comes to mind when you think of Jimi - it almost sounds like jazz! I loved it so much that I learned all the lyrics and listened to it all the time. I never thought too much about what the lyrics meant because, at the time, they just sounded like some far-out hippie acid trip thing. Well that was twenty-five years ago.
This morning I woke up and for some reason that song popped into my head. I was singing it at breakfast time and became aware of what I was actually saying:
Jimi Hendrix Up From The Skies Lyrics
I just want to talk to you
I won't uh, do you no harm
I just want to know about your diff'rent 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.
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you.
I just wanna know about
The rooms behind your minds
Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind ?
Or is it just uh, remains of vibrations
And echoes long ago ?
Uh things like "Love the world" and uh
Uh "Let your fancy flow"
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you
Let me talk to you.
I have lived here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I'm so concerned
And I come back to find
The stars misplaced
And the smell of a world
That is burned
A smell of a world
That is burned.
Yeah well, maybe, hmm...
Maybe it's just a... change of climate
Hmm, hmm...
Well I can dig it
I can dig it baby
I just want to see.
So where do I purchase my ticket ?
I'd just like to have a ringside seat
I want to know about the new Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
Yeah...
Aww, shucks
If my daddy could see me now
Everything, everything, everything, oh everything.
I always find it interesting when I remember something that points out to me that the sort of influences that brings one to The Work, have been all around me, all the time. And also, that this particular tune I loved immediately, moved me, and have never forgotten the lyrics, is saying what it's saying. Of course, I don't think anyone could listen to this song and not like it. It's just too cool.
The album starts out with this really wild minute-and-a-half feedback routine, and then surprises you with the grooviest Hendrix tune I've ever heard. It's a very subtle, laid back shuffle with a tasteful wah wah guitar rhythm, with him singing in a smooth, quiet voice. I would have to describe the feel as being too cool for words. It is nothing at all like the kind of thing that comes to mind when you think of Jimi - it almost sounds like jazz! I loved it so much that I learned all the lyrics and listened to it all the time. I never thought too much about what the lyrics meant because, at the time, they just sounded like some far-out hippie acid trip thing. Well that was twenty-five years ago.
This morning I woke up and for some reason that song popped into my head. I was singing it at breakfast time and became aware of what I was actually saying:
Jimi Hendrix Up From The Skies Lyrics
I just want to talk to you
I won't uh, do you no harm
I just want to know about your diff'rent 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.
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you.
I just wanna know about
The rooms behind your minds
Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind ?
Or is it just uh, remains of vibrations
And echoes long ago ?
Uh things like "Love the world" and uh
Uh "Let your fancy flow"
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you
Let me talk to you.
I have lived here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I'm so concerned
And I come back to find
The stars misplaced
And the smell of a world
That is burned
A smell of a world
That is burned.
Yeah well, maybe, hmm...
Maybe it's just a... change of climate
Hmm, hmm...
Well I can dig it
I can dig it baby
I just want to see.
So where do I purchase my ticket ?
I'd just like to have a ringside seat
I want to know about the new Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
Yeah...
Aww, shucks
If my daddy could see me now
Everything, everything, everything, oh everything.
I always find it interesting when I remember something that points out to me that the sort of influences that brings one to The Work, have been all around me, all the time. And also, that this particular tune I loved immediately, moved me, and have never forgotten the lyrics, is saying what it's saying. Of course, I don't think anyone could listen to this song and not like it. It's just too cool.
