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Purple Haze Lyrics

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Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just dont seem the same
Actin funny, but I dont know why
scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple haze all around
Dont know if Im 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]
Hammerin
Talkin bout heart n…s-soul
Im talkin about hard stuff
If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if
So far out my mind
Somethings happening, somethings happening
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, (click) ahhh,
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh, yeah!
Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh
Dont 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 cant go on like this
Purple haze
Youre makin me blow my mind…mama
Purple haze, n-no, nooo
Purple haze, no, its painful, baby

Purple Haze” is a song recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It also appeared on the US release of their 1967 album Are You Experienced?.
Purple Haze is often cited as one of Jimi Hendrix’s greatest songs, and first international hit. For many, it is his signature work. Purple Haze became Hendrix’ second single after his manager Chas Chandler heard him playing the riff backstage and quickly arranged for him to record and release the song.
The single peaked at number three in the UK but only number 65 in the US, where it was released in August 1967, three months after “Are You Experienced?” and five months after the UK single. In March 2005, Q magazine ranked “Purple Haze” at number one in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at No. 17 in their “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.
The song is believed to refer to Hendrix’s experiences with a similarly-named batch of LSD produced in 1966 by Owsley Stanley. (In a 1967 BBC session, Hendrix recorded a cover version of the Beatles’ “Day Tripper” in which he shouts, “Oh, Owsley, can you hear me now?” during the climactic guitar solo.) However, in interviews Hendrix would disclaim any association with the drug, asserting that the song was drawn from a dream he had where he was walking under the ocean, surrounded by a purple haze. At another point, Hendrix said he took the phrase “purple haze” from Night of Light, a science fiction novel written by Philip José Farmer that he was reading at the time. (However, the phrase appearing in Farmer’s book is “purplish haze” [1].) Hendrix claimed that the song was about love, explaining that the line “whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me” was the key to the meaning of lyrics.
The song is distinctive for the flattened fifth interval which appears in the intro. The guitar plays Bb octaves while the bass plays E octaves. Such dissonance was unusual in popular music of the time.

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