@ALBUM: Are You Experinced?
Lyrics to the Jimi Hendrix Experience album 
 

Comment: this is the USA version of the album. The UK version includes
the songs _Remember_, _Can You See Me?_, and _Red House_, which are NOT
transcribed here.

Song : theme
   Purple Haze : Losing your sanity over a woman
   Manic Depression : Depressed because music is rapturous, and life isn't
   Hey Joe : Kill your cheating lover and get out of town...quick!
   Love Or Confusion : Do I really love her? Really?
   May This Be Love : Finding your own island of tranquility.
   I Don't Live Today : Things are bad now, will they get better?
   The Wind Cries Mary : Forgive me (Jimi to Kathy Etchingham).
   Fire : Lets have a purely sexual relationship.
   Third Stone From the Sun : Aliens explore/destroy Earth.
   Foxy Lady : Leering at pretty women.
   Are You Experienced : New perspectives and inner peace.
All songs by Jimi Hendrix, except "Hey Joe" by Billy Roberts.

Sources : CD of the album, and the music books "Jimi Hendrix : Anthology"
   [from Cherry Lane Music Co.] and "Hendrix : Are You Experienced?" [from
   Hal Leonard Publishing Corp.{excellent}]. Also the book  "Jimi Hendrix :
   Electric Gypsy" for the slowwed down talk in "3rd Stone...".

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@SONG: Purple Haze
 
   {cough?}
   Purple haze all in my brain
   Lately things just don't seem the same
   Actin' funny, but I don't know why
   'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

   Purple Haze all around
   Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
   Am I happy or in misery?
   What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me

   Help me
   Help me
   Oh, no, no

   [faint, spoken lyrics...all questionable]
   [1:13] Hammerin'
   [1:15] Talkin' 'bout heart 'n'...s-soul
   [1:21] I'm talkin' about hard stuff
   [1:25] If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if
   [1:29] So far out my mind
   [1:32] Somethings happening, somethings happening

   Ooo, ahhh
   Ooo, {click} ahhh,
   Ooo, ahhh
   Ooo, ahhh, YEAH!

   Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh
   Don't know if its day or night
   You got me blowin', blowin' my mind
   Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

               | Ooo
               | Help me
               | Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah
               | Oh, no, oh
               | Oh, help me
   Purple haze | Tell me, baby, tell me
               | I can't go on like this
   Purple haze | You're makin' me blow my mind...mama
   Purple haze | n-no, nooo
   Purple haze | No, its painful, baby


@SONG: Manic Depression
 
   Manic depression is touchin' my soul
   I know what I what but I just don't know
   how to, heh, go about gettin' it
   Feeling, sweet feeling,
   drops from my fingers, fingers
   Manic depression is a-catchin' my soul...yeah

   Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain
   You make love, you break love
   its-a all the same
   when its, when its over, mama {"mama" on left channel only}
   Music, sweet music,
   I wish I could caress, caress, caress
   Manic depression is a fustrating mess

   Ooo-ow {cough}
   Dooo
   Dooo
   Dooo
   Dooo

   Cry on, guitar

   Well, I think I'll go turn myself off,
   and-a, uh-huh, go on down
   All the way down
   Really ain't no use in me hanging around
   in, uh-huh, your kind-a scene

   Music, sweet music
   I wish I could caress, and-a kiss, kiss
   Manic depression is a fustratin' mess

   Oh, ah
   Dig
   Ow

   [fades in] (Music, sweet ?) music, sweet music, sweet music, ah

   [fades in/out/in] (music, sweet ?) music, (sweet) music, yeah

   Dooo
   Oooo
   Oooo

   Hmm-hmm-hmm, depresss... {kisses?}  


@SONG: Hey Joe
 
   [note : BV=backing vocal chorus]
   Hey Joe, (BV=Ooo...)
   uh, where you goin' with that gun in your hand? (BV=...ooo)
   Hey Joe, (BV=Ooo...)
   I said where you goin' with that gun in your hand? Alright (BV=...ooo) 

   I'm goin' down to shot my old lady (BV=Ooo...)
   you know, I caught her messin' around with another man, yeah (BV=...ooo)
   I'm goin' down to shot my old lady (BV=Ooo...)
   you know I caught her messin' around with another man, (BV=...ooo...)
   Huh, and that ain't too cool (BV=...ooo)

   Uh, Hey Joe (BV=Ahh...)
   I heard you shot your woman down, you shot her down, now (BV=...ahh)
   H-hey Joe (BV=Ahh...)
   I said I heard you shot your old lady down, (BV=...ahh...)
   you shot her down to the ground,... yeah (BV=...ahh)

   Yes I did, I shot her (BV=Ahh...)
   You know I caught her messin' round, messin' round town (BV=...ahh)
   Uh-yes I did, I shot her (BV=Ahh...)
   You know, I caught my old lady messin' around town (BV=...ahh)
   And I gave her the gun,
   I SHOT HER!

   Woo
   Ah...Hey Joe, alright
   Shot her one more time again, baby

   (BV=Ooo...ooo)
   yeah (BV=He...y Jo...e)
   Ah, dig it
   Ah (BV=He...y Jo...e)
   Ah, ... Ooo, alright (BV=where you gonna go...o?)

   Hey Joe, said now (BV=He...y Jo..e)
   uh-where you gonna run to now? (BV=wher you gonna go...)
   Where you gonna run to? (BV=...o)
   Hey Joe, I said (BV=He...y) 
   where you gonna run to now? (BV=Jo....) 
   Where you, where you gonna go? (BV=...e)
   Well, dig it!

   I'm goin' way down south, (BV=He...y)
   way down to Mexico way (BV=Jo...e)
   Alright!
   I'm goin' way down south, (BV=He..y)
   way down where I can be free (BV=Joe, where you gonna go...)
   Ain't no one gonna find me (BV=...o)

   Ain't no hangman gonna,(BV=He...y)
   he ain't gonna put a rope around me (BV=Joe, where you gonna)
   You better believe it right now! I gotta go now (BV=go...o)
   Hey, h-hey Joe, (BV=He...y)
   you better run on down (BV=Joe, where you gonna)
   Goodbye everybody, ow! (BV=go...o)
   Hey, hey-hey Joe, uhh, (BV=He...y)
   run on down! (BV=Joe, where you gonna go)


@SONG: Love Or Confusion
 
   Is that the stars in the sky, or is it
   rain fallin' down
   Will it burn me if I touch the sun-uh, yeah
   so big, so round

   Would I be truthful, yeah, in, uh
   in chosin' you as the one for me?
   Is this love, baby
   or is it, uh-huh,
   just, uh, confusion?

   O-Oh, my mind is so messed up-uh
   Goin' 'round and 'round
   Must there be all the colors-uh
   without names, without sound, baby?
   My heart burns with feeling, but, uh
   Woe, but my mind, its cold and reeling
   Is this love, baby
   or, uh-huh, or is it confusion?

   Oh, my head is poundin', poundin'
   Goin' 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round
   Must there always be these colors?, uh
   without names, without sound
   My heart burns with feelin'
   Oh, but my mind is cold and reelin', uh
   Is this love, baby
   or is it-uh, huh, just, uh, confusion?
   Oh, you tell me baby, is this , uh
   love or confusion?

   Mama, we must get together and, uh
   find out
   exactly what we're tryin' to do

   Love or confusion?
   Confusion


@SONG: May This Be Love (aka Waterfall)
 
   Waterfall
   nothing can harm me at all
   My worries seem so very small
   with my waterfall

   I can see
   my rainbow calling me
   through the misty breeze
   of my waterfall

   Some people say
   day-dreamings for all the, huh,
   lazy minded fools
   with nothin' else to do
   So let them laugh, laugh at me
   So just as long as I have you
   to see me through
   I have nothing to lose
   'Long as I have you

   Waterfall
   don't ever change your ways
   Fall with me for a million days
   Oh, my waterfall


@SONG: I Don't Live Today
 
   Will I live tomorrow?
   Well, I just can't say
   Will I live tomorrow?
   Well, I just can't say
   But I know for sure
   I don't live today

   No sun comin' through my windows
   Feel like I'm livin' at the bottom of a grave
   No-ho sun comin' through my windows
   Feel like I'm livin' at the bottom of a grave
   I wish you'd hurry up and execute me
   so I can be on my miserable way

   (Well), I don't
   live today
   Maybe tomorrow, I just can't say, but, uh
   I don't
   live today 
   Its such a shame to waste your time away like this

   Existing

   Well, uh-I don't
   live today
   Maybe tomorrow, I just can't tell you baby, but, uh
   Oh, I don't
   live today
   Its such a shame to spend the time
   away like this
   existing

   Yeah
   Ow
   Yeah
   Oh, no
   Yeah

   Oh, there ain't no life no where

   uh-ha, {cough}-hmm, {sniff}
   Down, man

   (Are) you experienced? {clap}
   Get experienced {clap}
   Get experienced
   Uh, get experienced {clap}
   Uh, get experienced {clap} (BV=[Are] you experienced?)
   Are you experienced? (BV={clap} Are you experienced?)


@SONG: The Wind Cries Mary
 
   After all the jacks are in their boxes
   and the clowns have all gone to bed
   You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
   footsteps dressed in red
   And the wind whispers Mary

   A broom is drearily sweeping
   up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
   Somewhere a queen is weeping
   Somewhere a king has no wife
   And the wind, it cries Mary

   The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
   and shine their emptiness down on my bed
   The tiny island sags down stream
   'cause the life that lived is,
   is dead
   And the wind screams Mary

   Uh-will the wind ever remember
   the names it has blow in the past?
   And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
   it whispers no, this will be the last
   And the wind cries Mary


@SONG: Fire
 
   Alright,
   now dig this, baby

   You don't care for me
   I don't a-care about that
   Got a new fool, ha
   I'd like to laugh at
   I have only one burning desire,
   let me stand next to your fire

   Hey (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Let me stand next to your fire
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Whoa, let me stand, baby
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Let me stand
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Yeah, baby

   Listen here, baby
   and stop actin' so crazy

   You say your mom ain't home,
   it ain't my concern
   Just a-play with me
   and you won't get burned
   I have only one itchin' desire,
   let me stand next to your fire

   Msssst, yeah (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Let me stand, baby
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Let me stand
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Oh, let me stand
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)

   Ow!
   Ahh, move over, Rover
   and let Jimi take over
   Yeah, you know what I'm talk(in') about
   Yeah, get on with it, baby
   Ow
   Yeah

   Thats what I'm talkin' about
   Now dig this
   Ha!
   Now listen, baby

   You try to give me your money,
   you better save it, babe
   Save it for your rainy day 
   I have only one burnin' desire,
   let me stand next to your fire, ha

   Ow (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Uh, let me stand
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   Oh, let me stand, baby
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)
   I ain't gonna do you no harm
   (BV=Let me stand next to your fire)

   Ow
   Yeah
   You better move over, baby
   I ain't gonna hurt ya, baby
   Ah, I ain't talk(in') with your ol' lady
   Ow
   Ah, yes, this is Jimi talkin' to you
   Yeah, baby
   Doooo 


@SONG: Third Stone From the Sun
 
   {intro slowwed down talking begins}
   Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position. Over.
   I'm in orbit around the third planet from the star called
   the sun. Over.
   You mean its the Earth? Over.
   Positive. It is known to have some form of intelligent species. Over.
   I think we should take a look.
   {intro slowwed down talking ends}

   Strange beautiful grass of green,
   with your majestic silver seas
   Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
   May I land my kinky machine?

   {start slowwed down}
   Strange beautiful, grass of green
   with your majestic silver seas
   Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
   May I land my kinky machine?
   {end slowwed down}

   Although your world wonders me,
   with your majestic and superior cackling hen
   Your people I do not understand,
   so to you I shall put an end
   And you'll
   never hear
   surf music again

   {start slowwed down...rough guess at lyrics}
   Secret
   Oh, secret
   Oh
   Shhhh...
   {end slowwed down}


@SONG: Foxey Lady
 
   Foxey
   Foxey
   Uh-you know you a cute little heart breaker, ha
   Foxey, yeah
   And you know you a sweet little love maker, huh
   Foxey

   I wanna take you home, uh-huh, yeah
   I won't do you no harm, no, ha
   You got ta be all mine, all mine
   Oo, Foxey Lady
   Yeah, Foxey
   Foxey

   Now-uh, I see you, heh, on down on the scene
   Ohh, Foxey
   You make me wanna get up and a-scream
   Foxey
   Ah, baby listen now
   I made up my mind, yeah
   I'm tired of wasting all my precious time
   You've gotta be all mine, all mine
   Foxey Lady
   Here I come
   Foxey Lady
   Foxey (Lady)
   Foxey, Fa...
   Foxey, yeah

   I'm gonna take you home, uh-huh
   I won't do you no harm, no
   You gotta be all mine, all mine
   Foxey Lady

   Here I come, baby
   I'm comin' to get ya
   Ow, Foxey lady, yeah, yeah
   Oo, you look so good, Foxey (BV=Foxey)
   {inhale} Oh, yeah, Foxey (BV=Foxey)
   Yeah, give us some, foxy 
   Oo, Foxey {inhale}
   Yeah, get it, babe, Foxey (BV=Foxey)
   You make me feel like, uh, 
   feel like sayin' Foxey (BV=Foxey)
   Ah, Foxey (BV=Foxey)
   Foxey (BV=Foxey) Lady
   Foxey Lady


@SONG: Are You Experienced
 
   If you can just get your mind together
   uh-then come on across to me
   We'll hold hands and then we'll
   watch the sunrise
   from the bottom of the sea
   But first, are you experienced?
   Uh-have you ever been experienced-uh?
   Well, I have

   (Well) I know, I know, you'll probably scream and cry
   that your little world won't let you go
   But who in your measly little world, (-uh)
   are you tryin' to prove to that you're
   made out of gold and-uh, can't be sold
   So-uh, are you experienced?
   Have you ever been experienced? (-uh)
   Well, I have
   Uh, let me prove it to you,
   yeah

   Trumpets and violins I can-uh, hear in the distance
   I think they're callin' our name
   Maybe now you can't hear them,
   but you will, ha-ha, if you just
   take hold of my hand
   Ohhh, but are you experienced?
   Have you ever been experienced?

   Not necessarily stoned, but
   beautiful
