ELECTRIC LADYLAND
Have You Ever Been Crosstown Traffic Voodoo Chile
Long Hot Summer Night Gipsys Eyes House Burning Down
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp Rainy Day Dream Away
1983...(A merman I Should To Be) Still Raining Still Dreaming
Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
Have you ever been, Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland? The magic carpet waits for you so don’t you be late. Oh I want, I want to show you different emotions, I want to ride through the sounds and motions, Electric woman waits for you and me.
So it’s time we take a ride, You can cast all your hang-ups over the side-side While we fly right over the love-filled sea, Look, up ahead I see the love land, Soon you will understand. Yeah. Make love, make love, make love, make love. I wanna show you. (The angels will spread their wings, Spread their wings) I wanna show you. Good and evil lay side by side While electric love penetrates the sky I wanna show you...
You jump in front of my car when you know All the time ninety miles an hour, girl, Is the speed I drive. You tell me is alright, you don’t mind a little pain, You say you just want me to take you for a ride. (You’re just like) Crosstown traffic (So hard to get through to you) Crosstown traffic (I don’t need to run over you) Crosstown traffic (All you do is slow me down) And I’m tryin’ to get on the other side of town.
I’m not the only soul who’s accused of hit and run Tire-tracks all across your back, Aha, I can see you had your fun! But-a darling can’t you see my signals Turn from green to red and with you I can see A traffic jam straight up ahead. (You’re just like) Crosstown traffic (So hard to get through to you) Crosstown traffic (I don’t need to run over you) Crosstown traffic (All you do is slow me down) And I got better things on the other side of town Yeah Yeah (Crosstown traffic)
Well, I’m a voodoo chile, Lord I’m a voodoo chile. Yeah.
Well, the night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire-red. The night I was born, I swear, The moon turned a fire-red. Well, my poor mother cried out "Lord, the gypsy was right." And I see her fell down right dead (have mercy).
Well, mountain lions found me there waitin’ And set me on an eagle’s back. Well, mountain lions found me there And set me on an eagle’s wing (Eagle’s wing, baby). He took me past the outskirts of infinity; And when he brought me back, He gave me Venus witch’s ring. Hey! And he said "Fly on, fly on!" Because I’m a voodoo chile baby, Voodoo chile. Hey!
Yeah, Well I make love to you And Lord knows, you feel no pain. Yeah. Say I make love to you in your sleep And Lord knows, you felt no pain (have mercy) ’Cause I’m a million miles away And at the same time, I’m right here what I say now!) ’( Cause I’m a voodoo chile, yeah... Yeah. well my arrows are made of desires From far away as Jupiter sulphur mines. Say my arrows are made of desires Desires from far away As Jupiter sulphur mines (Way down by the methane sea). I have a humming bird that hums so loud You think you were losing your mind...
Well I float in liquid gardens And Arizona’s new red sands. Yeah. I float in liquid gardens Way down in Arizona’s red sands (have mercy). Well, I taste the honey from a flower name Blue Way down in California And New York drowns as we held hands. Hey. ’Cause I’m a voodoo chile, Lord knows I’m a voodoo chile, yeah...
It sure was a long, long, long Hot summer night as far as My eyes could see, (yeah, yeah, yeah) But my heart was way down In a cold, cold winter storm. Oh my darling, where can you be, where can you be, Baby, where can you be?
There were three sugar walls and Two candy cane windows but Sylvia’s mood Melted all those in sight Ev’rybody ’s on fire but I’m snowing In a cold blizzard. Where are you on this-uh hot cold summer? Where are you on this-uh hot cold summer? Where are you on this-uh hot cold summer night? (Night, night) Around about this time the telephone blew Its horn across the room Scared little Annie clean out her mind. (Roman the candle, he peeps out of his peek-a-boo, Hide and seek)
And grab little Annie from the ceiling Just in time. And the telephone keeps on screamin’
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, "Hello", said my shaky voice "Well how you doing?" (I start to stutter, gh, Uh "Can’t you tell I’m doing fine?" It was my baby talking and She’s way down ’cross the border. She says "I’m goin’ to hurry to you, I’ve been a fool and I’m tired of cryin’" (Tired of cryin’)
Yeah. It was a long, long hot summer night As far as my eyes could see But I can feel the heat comin’ on As my baby’s gettin’ closer. I’m so glad that my baby’s comin’ to rescue me. So glad that my baby’s comin’ to rescue me. So glad that my baby’s comin’ to rescue me (Rescue, rescue...)
Well, I realize that I’ve been hypnotized t I love you, gypsy eyes... I love you, gypsy eyes (Alright)
Way up in my tree I’m sitting by my fire Wond’rin’ where in this world might you be.
And knowing all the time l
You still are roamin’ the countryside.
Do you still think about me?
(Oh, my Gypsy)
Well, I walk right on up to your
rebel roadside The one that rambles on for a million miles Yes, I walk down this road Searching for your love and fine soul, too
And when I find you,
I ain’t gonna let go.
I remember the first time I saw you The tears in your eyes look like they was tryin’ to say "Oh little boy, you know I could love you
But first, I must make my getaway,
Two strange men fighting to the death
Over me today... ]
I’ll try to meet you by the old
highway" Hey!
Well, I realize that I’ve been hypnotized, I love you, gypsy eyes alright!
My feet, they painfully leave the battle, Down against the road my weary knees take their place. Off to the side I fall But I hear a sweet call My gypsy eyes has found me and I’ve been saved, yeah! Lord, I’ve been saved That’s why I love you Say I love you, I love you, Lord I love you.
up The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
The morning is dead and the day is too. There’s nothing left here to greet me, But the velvet moon. All my loneliness I have felt today It’s 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 you Is still hanging on my frowning wall, It really doesn’t It really doesn’t bother me too much at all. It’s just the ever falling dust that makes it So hard for me to see That forgotten earring laying on the floor Facing coldly towards the door. And I continue to burn the midnight lamp All alone. (Burn, yeah, yeah, lonely, lonely, lonely...
Loneliness is such a drag!)
So here I sit and face that same old fireplace Keep running through the same old thoughts Going through my mind and soon enough time will tell About the purpose in the wishing well And someone will write a spell for me Someone will tell my spell and I continue to burn the same old lamp, alone. Yeah, loneliness. Can you hear me calling you? So lonely ( gotta prove my mind),
Yeah yeah, lonely, lonely.
Hey man, take a look out the window; And see what’s happening, Hey man it’s raining ! It’s raining outside man, Oh don’t worry about that, Oh that’s gonna be everything, We’ll gettin’ it the same all night (you know) So just lay back and groovy on a rainy day, Oh yeah, yeah I see what you mean, But lay back and groove.
Rainy day, dream away, Let the sun take a holiday. Flowers bathe and see the children play Lay back and groove on a rainy day. Well, I can see a bunch of wet preachers; Look at’em on the run! The carnival traffic noise, It sinks to a splashy hum, Even the ducks can groovy, Rain battering in the parkside pool. And I’m leaning on my window sill Digging ev’rything! (and-uh you too!).
Rainy day, rain all day, Ain’t no use in gettin’ uptight. Just let it groove its own way, Let it drain your worries away, Lay back and groove on a rainy day, hey, Lay back and dream on a rainy day.
up 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
Hooray, 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 lands so battered and torn Forever (forever).
Oh say, can you see it’s really such a mess Ev’ry inch of earth is a fighting nest, Giant pencil and lipstick 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 sands and the sea Is straight ahead, (straight up ahead).
Well, it’s too bad that Our friends can’t be with us today (Well, it’s too bad) "The machine that we built, Would never save us" that’s what they say (That’s why they’ve not come up with us today) They also said
"It’s impossible for a man to live and breathe Under water forever",
that 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." (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, it has done its work, Played its part well Without a scratch on our bodies And we bid it farewell. Starfish and giant forms 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.
Moon, Turn The Tides... Gently Gently Away
go down and down and down and down and down and down we go Hurry my darling, we mustn’t be late For the show Neptune champion games to an aqua world Is so very dear "Right this way." smiles a mermaid I can hear Atlantis full of cheer. Atlantis full of cheer, I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.
Rainy day, rain all day, Ain’t no use in gettin’uptight. Just let it groove its own way, Let it drain your worries away. Lay back and groove on a rainy day, hey! Lay back and dream on a rainy day. Lay back and groove on a rainy day.
Rainy day, rainy day, Lay back and groove on a rainy day, Lay back and dream on a rainy day, Lay back and, lay back and, lay back and, Lay back and groove. (Alright, oh yeah, ooh) Lay back and groove...
It’s still raining, still dreaming!
It’s still raining, still dreaming.
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Look at the sky turn A hell-fire red, Somebody’s house is burning down
Look at the sky turn A hell-fire red, Somebody’house is burning down down down down
(down down down).
Well, I asked my friend, "Where is that black smoke coming from?" He just coughed and changed the subject, And said, "Uh, it might snow some".
So I left him sipping his tea, And I jumped in my chariot And rode to see just why and who Could it be this time. Sisters and brothers, daddies, mothers Standing ’round crying When I reached the scene, the flames Were making a ghostly whine, >o I stood on my horse’s back And I screamed without a crack, I say, "Oh, baby, why did you burn you, your brother’s house down?" Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Look at the sky turn A hell-fire red, Lord somebody’s house is burning down down down down. Look at the sky turn
A hell-fire red, Lord Somebody’s house is burning down down down down.
Well someone stepped from the crowd, He was nineteen miles high. He shouts "We’re tired and disgusted; So we paint red through the sky". I say, "The truth is straight ahead, So don’t burn yourself instead, Try to learn instead of burn, Hear what I say!". So I finally rode away, But I’ll never forget that day, ’Cause when I reached the valley I looked way down ’cross the way, A giant boat from space landed with eerie grace And came and taken all the dead away. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! (What I say!) Look at the sky turn A hell-fire red, Lord Somebody’s house is burning down down down down. Look at the sky turn A hell-fire red, Lord Somebody’s house is burning down down down down, Look at the sky...
up Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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; I chop it down with the edge of my hand.
Well I pick up all the pieces and make an island; Might even raise up in little sand. Yeah! ’Cause I’m a voodoo chile, Lord knows I’m a voodoo chile, Baby.
(Well I say one last thing!) I didn’t mean to take up all your sweet time, I’ll give it right back to you, One of these days (Haha!). I said I didn’t mean to take up All your sweet time, I’ll give it right back one of these days. Yeah! If I don’t meet you no more in this world; Then I’ll meet you in the next one And don’t be late, don’t be late. ’Cause I’m a voodoo chile, Voodoo chile Lord knows I’m a voodoo child. Hey! Hey! Hey! I’m a voodoo chile baby...