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Hooray, I awake from yesterday
Alive but the war is here to stay
So my love Catharina and me
Decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea
Not to die but to be reborn
Away from the lands so battered and torn
Forever forever
Oh say can you see it's really such a mess
Every inch of earth is a fighting nest
Giant pencil and lipstick-tube shaped things
Continue to rain and cause screamin' pain
And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
As our feet find the sand
And the sea is straight ahead
Straight up ahead
Well it's too bad that our friends can't be with us today
Well it's too bad
The machine that we built
Would never save us that's what they say
That's why they ain't coming with us today
And they also said it is impossible
For a man to live and breathe underwater
Forever was a main complaint
Yeah and they also threw this in my face they said
Anyway you know good and well
It would be beyond the will of God
And the grace of the king, grace of the king
Yeah …
So my darling and I make love in the sand
To salute the last moment ever on dry land
Our machine, it has done it's work, played it's part well
Without a scratch on our body when we bid it farewell
Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
Who could really explain what these lyrics mean? All I understand from it is that Jimi is fed up with everything that happens on the land. And that he wishes to become a merman, his lady darling a mermaid and that they should go into the sea … hoping to find a better place underwater. Atlantis, Neptune, mermaids and all o' that.
Before our heads go under we take our last look at the killing noise
Of the out of style, the out of style, out of style oh yeah, ooh
So down and down and down and down we go
Hurry my darling we must not be late for the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua world is so my dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer, Atlantis full of cheer
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer, Atlantis full of cheer, o yeah
“1983, A Merman I Should Turn Out To Be” was written by Jimi Hendrix |
