He hadn't really laid the tracks down for how it was going to sound." He'd write down the lyrics, and in a lot of them he'd put in notes of how he wanted the song to go. Now we have 110 songs."įrom what you've been told, were there ever any instances where the lyrics came before the music? That was really life-changing for Jimi - and the world.
He really encouraged Jimi to write and not just play cover tunes. He hung out with Chas Chandler a lot - Chas was his manager at one time. Dylan, sure, you can hear the inspiration in his lyrics. You've got Bob Dylan, he loved Muddy Waters, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke - he loved all the old greats. I think he was an admirer of people who could write. "There's a picture he drew as a kid of Elvis Presley, and he drew all the song titles around him. Did he ever talk about any other songwriters as influences? There's some really incredible intuitive insights into his handwriting and who he was."Īs a lyricist, Jimi was very inspired by Bob Dylan. It pretty much describes who he is - that he's creative, he works both sides of his brain, he's extremely intelligent. I know we have that analysis somewhere in our archives. Has Jimi's handwriting ever been analyzed by experts? As you can see in the book, a lot of his lyrics are written on hotel stationary or napkins or anything he could get his hands on. I used to have very vivid dreams, and he'd say, 'Write them down.' That's what he did, as well. Jimi would tell me to keep a pad and pen next to my bed. "It's when that muse lands or that inspiration comes. It's always interesting to me to see how songwriters would pen lyrics on things like hotel stationary and pieces of paper bags backstage. Published by Backbeat Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard Corporation. He's saying that he tried cutting but it didn't turn out that well so he chose writing and it was a good choice so he can stop debating the two choices.Īnd I can't go on without your love, you lost, you never held on.From Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Lyric Book (c) 2012 by Experience Hendrix, LLC. He's saying he can't go on without his concienes help with it because it's the only thing that cares for him and that now it's deserting him because he' ignoring it. "And I can't go on without your love, you lost, you never held on. He's going to debate choosing cutting or writing again. He's saying that everyday he'd cut himself with the same knife and it's getting dull now, and that he's telling himself that he should keep cutting himself to make his pride feel better about its self. "Everyday it's still the same dull knife, He's saying that he chose to cut himself and that if continues doing it it might kill him and the second line basically says everything on it's own, that you're concience nows that writing would be the better thing to do and that it's safe too. It's saying that even though that everyday he possible debated cutting himself or writing about it that he wants to do it one last time and that with his choices he made his two paths he can go on.Ĭonscience begs for you to do what's right." With knives and pens we made our plight." He's telling his mind to stop leaning towards cutting yourself and that he can change the path they where going to go on, and that he's going to debate this topic even though he already knows what the right path to go on is. We're storming through this despite what's right." "But stay right here we can change our plight. The Second line I think is referancing to the main character loosing what was left with his faith in god because of what's happening to him. This is basically saying that the main character in this song ((let's say it's a guy.)) is alone with his thoughts and mind, and how he' debating over his choice of writing down his expressions or cutting himself. It's also narrated by the main character.Īnd I've lost all faith in this blurring light," This song has to do with the choice of cutting yourself (which can/will kill you) or writing your expressions through Poetry, stories, Songs, Ect.
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