The Return Of Jimi Hendrix - Album Version-The Waterboys

[ti:The Return Of Jimi Hendrix - A] [ar:The Waterboys] [al:Karma To Burn] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Return Of Jimi Hendrix - Album Version - The Waterboys (水孩子) [00:32.35]I dreamed about Jimi Hendrix [00:34.35]He came back for one day [00:35.97] [00:36.84]Was born weepin' out of an egg the mid-wife said [00:40.02]And straight away began to pray with lifted head [00:44.08] [00:47.20]He spent the early hours [00:48.88]Communing with the morning stars [00:50.51] [00:51.63]And then he came over to my house [00:53.38]Where he tried out my guitar [00:54.82] [01:02.49]He was young and black and beautiful [01:04.49]Big eyed perfect skinned [01:07.17] [01:07.73]And he played my guitar like a lightning storm [01:10.10] [01:10.98]Like twirlin' feathers in the wind [01:13.16] [01:17.22]He could make it sound like the end of the world [01:19.96]A fire the flick of a knife [01:21.77]He could squeeze it slow and masterful [01:25.57] [01:26.32]Like the hand that brought the world to life [01:28.75] [01:32.87]Together we strolled in sculptured gardens [01:34.93] [01:35.87]Passed the sleepy afternoon [01:37.18] [01:37.99]Maids were dartin' back and forth [01:39.74] [01:40.61]From a window came a violin tune [01:42.42] [01:43.10]Angels dressed as nurses toyed with playin' cards [01:47.23]Looters sprung from prisons filled the yard [01:49.97] [01:50.91]A yellow sun hung low and yawned [01:53.34] [01:54.21]And as it dipped [01:55.46] [01:56.28]Jimi stood up straight [01:57.40] [01:57.96]Grinned and shook his velvet hips [01:59.90] [02:03.52]Callin' himself King Electric [02:04.95] [02:05.51]In the evening he went wild [02:07.32]Played on a dozen stages [02:08.27]In the clubs of New York [02:10.08]Lit the city end to end [02:11.64]Wired it up fired it up [02:13.51]Scarved bejeweled [02:15.01]Long-legged snake-limbed [02:15.51]Athletic driven dangerous [02:18.75]He made all Manhattan shake [02:20.12] [02:20.69]And every street and sidewalk quake [02:22.75]His Stratocaster caused the mighty Empire State to vibrate [02:25.71] [02:26.52]His whammy bar caused shock-eyed punks from [02:29.25]Hackensack and Yonkers [02:30.06]Raised on speed metal and rap [02:31.37]To enter trance and levitate [02:32.37]He played Purple Haze and Pyramid [02:35.99]Voodoo child and Sin-E [02:37.23] [02:37.74]Up from the skies and storm free [02:39.73]In King Tut's Wah Wah Hut [02:41.04]He did a forty-two minute [02:42.60]Cosmic rise in future shocks [02:43.85]Star Spangled Banner [02:44.73]In the back of CBGBs [02:47.59] [02:48.59]He stopped every clock in New York state [02:51.22] [02:52.03]And every heart that heard him [02:54.27]And time itself was beaten and confused [02:57.30] [02:58.05]And fell lamblike under the spell of his fabulous flashing fingers [03:02.85] [03:04.79]He played an encore at the Bitter End [03:07.53]A heart burst Little Wing [03:09.09]Even the waiters cried and then we fell outside [03:11.59] [03:13.08]And in the dusty dawn of Bleecker Street [03:15.45]A sweet rain fell and Jimi died [03:19.13] [03:27.73]Jimi died