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Here. In about two minutes, Jimi Hendrix one day decided to show us his soul and we all realized that his soul was so, so beautiful.
Several years ago, I was listening to the radio at night. It was one of those shows where they talk a lot, but they were true connoisseurs, those whom we call in Rome, with a hint of sarcasm, 'capiscioni'. At some point, the host, talking about "Little Wing", quoted a comment made by a well-known guitarist, I don't remember who, I apologize.
Well, this guitarist said: "Little Wing is a miracle ...it's as if the soul of your dead grandfather came to visit you at night and talked with you for a bit, just the duration of the song, and it all happens so quickly that in the end, you want more but at the same time, you are in awe of what happened."
If I lived a hundred years, I don't think I could, nor would I want to, find a more...perfect definition.
The start is stunning: with the first two distorted notes, he wakes you up, calls you: "hey, I'm talking to you, listen carefully, it won't take long". Then begins a cluster of relaxing notes and unfolds a superb musical carpet composed of a sweet and ineffable melody, evocative yet familiar, universal language things, and I am already floored.
After a handful of seconds, it’s about to 'begin'...just to say it has already begun! He is about to start singing and announces himself with an imposing and solemn drum roll as if he were a king. But he is a king!
He tells us a brief love story, or perhaps it's just a longing for love, with his irregular voice. Jimi Hendrix was even embarrassed to sing, perhaps not so much because of his voice, but because of the enormous gap between his voice and his fingers.
What can I say, he has just started singing, and the song is already almost over, yet it feels like a lot of time has passed, that time he himself stopped, expanded, relativized, with this magnificent song. We are in paradise, we see it from the porthole of a dirigible, the glass is fogged, it doesn’t show clearly, yet we cannot deny it is paradise.
Here, it's already ending, he is bidding us farewell, we hear the echo of his guitar that starts a solo we will never hear because it fades into infinity.
The grandfather has spoken to us, we already don’t remember well what he told us.
We are sure of only one thing: whatever he told us, he was right.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Fire (03:40)
Alright,
Dig this baby
You don't care for me
I don'-a care about that
You gotta new fool, ha!
I like it like that
I have only one burning desire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire (Repeat 4 times)
Listen here, baby
and stop acting so crazy
You say your momma ain't home,
it ain't my concern,
Just play with me and you won't get burned
I have only one itching desire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire (Repeat 4 times)
Oh! Move over, Rover
and let Jimi take over
Yeah, you know what I'm talking 'bout
Yeah, get on with it, baby
That's what I'm talking 'bout
Now dig this!
Ha!
Now listen, baby
You try to gimme your money
you better save it, babe
Save it for your rainy day
I have only one burning desire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
03 Little Wing (03:56)
Well, she's walking through the clouds
With a circus mind,
That's running wild.
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
And fairytales,
That's all she ever thinks about ...
Riding with the wind.
When I'm sad, she comes to me
With a thousand smiles
She gives to me free.
It's alright, she says,
It's alright;
Take anything you want from me,
Anything.
Fly on, little wing.
04 Voodoo Chile (06:28)
Well, I'm a voodoo chile
Lord I'm a voodoo chile
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 seen her fell down right dead
(Have mercy)
Well, mountain lions found me there waitin'
And set me on a eagles back
Well, mountain lions found me there,
And set me on a eagles wing
(It's the eagles wing, baby, what did I say)
He took me past to the outskirts of infinity,
And when he brought me back,
He gave me a Venus witch's ring
Hey!
And he said "Fly on, fly on"
Because I'm a voodoo chile, baby, voodoo chile
Hey!
Well, I make love to you,
And lord knows you'll feel no pain
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 in your picture frame
(Yeah! What did I say now)
'Cause I'm a voodoo chile
Lord knows I'm a voodoo chile Yeah!
(Yeah, but I say now yeah)
Well my arrows are made of desire
From far away as Jupiter's sulphur mines
Say my arrows are made of desire, desire
From far away as Jupiter's sulphur mines
(Way down by the Methabe Sea, yeah)
I have a humming bird and it hums so loud,
You think you were losing your mind, hmmm...
Well I float in liquid gardens
And Arizona new red sand
(Yeah)
I float in liquid gardens
Way down in Arizona red sand
Well, I taste the honey from a flower named Blue,
Way down in California
And the New York drowns as we hold hands
'Cause I'm a voodoo chile
Lord knows I'm a voodoo chile
Yeah!
05 Wild Thing (03:25)
At the Monterey Pop Festival
Come on man sing it with me
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
Oh
You make a everything, groovy
Wild thing
Wild thing I think you move me
But I want a know for sure
Come on and ssssssock it to me one more time
(Click) you move me
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
Oh
You make a everything, groovy
A sing again
Wild thing
Yeah
Wild thing I think you move me
But I want a know for sure
Come on and ssssssock it to me one more time again
Oh shucks I love ya
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make a everything, groovy
Yeah wild thing
Yeah wild thing
Yeah yeah wild thing
Yeah yeah yeah wild thing
Oh sock it to me
Wild thing
Jimi Hendrix!
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