 Genius Meanings
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Spanish Castle Magic
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This song is Jimi’s ode to the Spanish Castle. A club in Washington state just south of Jimi’s native Seattle. Built in 1931, it served as a popular venue for young aspiring
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Spin Doctors – Spanish Castle Magic
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[Verse 1] / It's very far away / It takes about a half a day to get there / If we travel by my, dragonfly / No it's not in Spain / But all the same you know, it's a groovy name
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Yngwie Malmsteen – Spanish Castle Magic
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It's very far away / It takes about half a day / To get there / If we travel by my, dragonfly / No, its not in spain / But all the same / Its a groovy name / And in the winds just
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Jimi Hendrix – Spanish Castle Magic - Live in Santa Clara 1969
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[Verse 1] / It's very far away / It takes about a half a day to get there / If we travel by my, dragonfly / No it's not in Spain / But all the same you know, it's a groovy name
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Castles Made of Sand
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[Verse 1] / Down the street you can hear her scream "You're a disgrace" / As she slams the door in his drunken face / And now he stands outside / And all the neighbors start to
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Jimi Hendrix – Red House - Live in Maui
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[Verse 1] / There's a red house over yonder / That's where my baby stays / Lord, there's a red house over yonder / Lord, that's where my baby stays / I ain't been home to see my
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Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze - Live at Isle of Wight
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Hey / Purple haze all in my brain / Lately things don't seem the same / Acting strange, but I don't know why / 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky / [
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Jimi Hendrix – Dolly Dagger - Live in Maui
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[Verse 1] / Here comes Dolly Dagger / Her love's so heavy, gonna make you stagger / Dolly Dagger, she drinks her blood from a jagged edge / (Drink up, baby) / Been riding
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Jimi Hendrix – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - Live in Stockholm, Sweden
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[Verse 1] / It was twenty years ago today / Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play / They've been going in and out of style / But they're guaranteed to break a smile / So may I
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Jimi Hendrix – Hear My Train A Comin' - Live in Maui
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[Chorus] / Well, I hear my train a comin' / Hear my / Hear my train a comin' / [Interlude] / Ayy ayy ayy yeah-eah / [Verse] / Well, I / Wait around the train station / Waitin' for
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Jimi Hendrix – Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) - Live in Maui
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse] / Hey, gypsy baby, where are you coming from? / She looked at me and smiled / And stared into space and said, "I'm coming from the land of the new
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Scott Matthews (Ft. Chuck Prophet) – The Wind Cries Mary
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Footprints dressed in red / And
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Jimi Hendrix – Lover Man - Live in Maui
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[Verse 1] / Here he comes, baby / Here comes your lover man / Here he comes / Here comes your lover man / I'll sneak out your window, babe / I really gotta go as fast as I can
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Jimi Hendrix – Burning of the Midnight Lamp - Live at Dee Time
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[Verse 1] / The morning is dead, and the day is too / There's nothing left here to lead me but the velvet moon / All my loneliness I have felt today / It's a little more than
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Jimi Hendrix – Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) - Live at the Isle of Wight
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Hey baby where are you coming from? / Well she looked at me and smiled / And looked into space and said "I'm coming from the land of the new rising sun." / Then I said "Hey baby
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Jimi Hendrix – Country Blues
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“Country Blues” is an eight-minute track blending elements of rock, country, and blues. The track strongly relies on Hendrix’s guitar playing, but also utilizes a harmonica. This
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – One Rainy Wish
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This track, also known as “Golden Rose”, was featured on the 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s second album. It was written by Jimi Hendrix and the
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Miss Lover
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This was the 12th song off of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s album Axis: Bold as Love. "
Little Miss Lover" was recorded in Olympic Sound Studios in London on October 1st 1967. It
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Well she's walking through the clouds / With a circus mind that's running round / Butterflies and zebras / And moonbeams / And-a, fairytales / That's all she
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Jimi Hendrix – Lover Man
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“Lover Man” is a song by Jimi Hendrix about cheating in a relationship, with this situation being between a woman cheating on her significant other (her “lover man”) by sleeping
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Jimi Hendrix – Like a Rolling Stone - Live in Winterland
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[Spoken Intro: Jimi Hendrix] / Here's a song written by Dylan / A thing called "Like a Rolling Stone" / [Verse 1] / Once upon a time, you dressed so fine / Threw the bums a dime in
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Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower - Live at Isle of Wight
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[Verse 1] / "There must be some kind of way out of here" / Said the joker to the thief / "There's too much confusion / I can't get no relief / Businessmen they drink my wine
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Bold as Love
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The closing track of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s second album Axis: Bold As Love. It paints a vivid picture of the spectrum of human emotion using colors as its metaphor.
John
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – EXP
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The funny Alien-related Axis: Bold As Love intro featuring Jimi Hendrix being “interviewed” by bandmate Mitch Mitchell
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Jimi Hendrix – Cherokee Mist
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[Instrumental]
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – If 6 Was 9
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Off of the Experience’s second album, [Axis: Bold as Love], this song is often interpreted as an “Individualist Anthem” that takes inspiration from the counterculturalist movement
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Jimi Hendrix – Somewhere
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“Somewhere” is a Jimi Hendrix song recorded in March 1968, with Buddy Miles on drums and Stephen Stills on bass.
Producer Eddie Kramer told Rolling Stone, “[it'] a fantastic
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Thin White Rope – May This Be Love
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Waterfall / Nothing can harm me at all / My worries seem so very small / With my waterfall / [Verse 2] / I can see / My rainbow calling me / Through the misty breeze / Of my
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
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[Spoken Intro] / (Is the microphone on?) / [Intro] / Hey baby where are you coming from? / [Verse 1] / Well she looked at me and smiled / And looked into space and said "I'm coming
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Up from the Skies
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The second track off of 1967’s Axis: Bold as Love, “Up From The Skies” was written by Jimi Hendrix.
The lyrics are written from the perspective of a space alien visiting, or
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Jimi Hendrix – Catfish Blues - Live at Olympia Theatre, October 9, 1967
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[Spoken Intro: Jimi Hendrix, crowd] / Have you ever heard of Mississippi? / Yeah! / Heh, heh / Have you ever heard of muddy waters? / Have you ever heard of Johnny [?] / Give me an
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Ain't No Telling
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[Chorus] / Well, there ain't no / (Ain't no) / Ain't no telling, baby / When you will see me again, but I pray / It will be tomorrow / [Chorus] / Well, the sunrise / (Sunrise) / Is
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Jimi Hendrix – Villanova Junction - Live At Woodstock
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Jimi: / "thank you" / Crowd: / "more! more! more! more!" / Announcer: / "ladys and gentlemen the jimi hendrix experience"
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – She's So Fine
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[Verse 1] / She walks with a bell clock round her neck / So the hippies think she's in with time, time / Her hair glistens like robins on a deck / Branches attack me from her neck
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Jimi Hendrix – Gloria
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[Verse 1] / Well she come around here / Just about midnight / Lord, she make me feel so good / She make me feel alright / [Chorus] / And she spell her name G-L-O-R-IIIIII-A, G-L-O-
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Wait Until Tomorrow
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The song is a metaphor for Jimi trying to have sex with a girl for the first time and her insecurities about it (maybe it’s her first time?)
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Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe - Live at Olympia Theatre
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? / Hey Joe, I said, where you going with that gun in your hand? / [Verse 2] / I'm going down
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Jimi Hendrix – Message to Love
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[Verse 1] / What a world / I said we're driving under speed / Oh the reaper man / We've got a lot of love to give / Better come on if you can / [Interlude] / Ooh, ooh / [Verse 2
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