JIMI HENDRIX: The Cry of Love (1971)

1. Freedom
2. Drifting
3. Ezy Ryder
4. Night Bird Flying
5. My Friend
6. Straight Ahead
7. Astro Man
8. Angel
9. In From the Storm
10. Belly Button Window

FREEDOM
You got my pride

hanging out of my bed

You're messin' with my life

So I bought my lead

You even mess with my children

And you're screamin' at my wife, baby

Get offa my back,

if you wanna get outta here alive

Freedom, give it to me

That's what I want now

Freedom, that's what I need now

Freedom to live

Freedom, so I can give

You got my heart

speak electric water

You got my soul

screamin' and howlin'

You know you hook my girlfriend

You know the drugstore man

But I don't need it now

I was trying to slap it out of her head

Freedom, so I can leave

Freedom, so I can give

Freedom, yeah

Freedom, that's what I need

You don't have to say that you love me

if you don't mean it

You'd better believe

If you need me

or you just wanna bleed me

you'd better stickin' your dagger in someone else

So I can leave

Set me free

Right on, straight ahead

Stay up and straight ahead

Freedom

DRIFTING
Drifting
On a sea of forgotten teardrops
On a lifeboat
Sailing for
Your love

Sailing home

Drifting
On a sea of old heartbreaks
On a lifeboat
Sailing for
Your love

Sailing home

EZY RYDER
There goes Ezy

Ezy Ryder

Ridin’ down the highway of desire

He says the free wind

takes him higher

Tryin to find his heaven above

but he's dyin to be loved, dyin’ to be loved

He's tellin me livin’

is so magic

Something is forever so he claims

He's talkin' ‘bout lyin’

it's so tragic baby

But don't you worry ‘bout today

we got freedom comin' our way, freedom comin’ our way

How long

do you

think he is gonna last

carryin' on outta gas

See all the others say

"do what you please"

Gotta get the brothers together

and the right to be free

In a cloud of angel dust

I think I see me a freak

Hey motorcycle mama

you gonna marry me? ha,ha

I'll be stone crazy

love comin in at you

Stone crazy baby

There goes Ezy

Ezy Ryder

Ridin’ down the highway of desire

He says the free wind

takes him higher

Tryin’ to find his heaven above

but he's dyin’ to be loved, dyin’ to be loved

Ezy Ryder...

NIGHT BIRD FLYING
She's just a night bird flyin' throught the night

Fly on

She's just a night bird making a midnight, midnight flight

Sail on, sail on

Well, she's flyin' down to me

But, 'til tomorrow got to set her free

Set her free

So all we got, baby, is one precious night

All we got is one precious night

Throw your blues and shoes and things

And lay it down under the bed

Just wrap me up in your beautiful wings,

Better hear what I say, yeah

Oh, carry me home

Please take me through your dreams

Inside your world I want to be

Until tomorrow no tears will be shed

Hold on 'til the sun gets out of bed

Hold on, hold on, baby

Sail on, sail on, sail on

MY FRIEND
Hey, look out for my glass up there, man!

That's my drink, man, that's my drink, alright...

Make it a double, or eh...

Somebody has to sing

Some body will sing?

Somebody will sing, right?

(I don't know!)

Y'all pass me that bottle,

And I'll sing you all a real song

Yeah!

Let me get my key, ahum!

Well, I'm looking through Harlem

my stomach squeal just a little more

A stagecouch full of feathers and footprints,

pulls up to my soapbox door

Now a lady with a pearlhandled necktie

Tied to the driver's fence

breathes in my face,

bourbon and coke possessed words

Haven't I seen you somewhere in hell,

or was it just an accident?

(You know how I felt then, and so)

Before I could ask "was it the East or West side?"

my feet they howled in pain

The wheels of a bandwagon cut very deep,

but not as deep in my mind as the rain

And as they pulled away I could see her words

Stagger and fall on my muddy tent

Well I picked them up, brushed them off,

to see what they say,

and you wouldn't believe:

"Come around to my room, with the tooth in the middle,

and bring along the bottle and a president"

And eh sometimes it's not so easy, baby

Especially when your only friend,

talks, sees, looks and feels like you,

and you do just the same as him

(Gets very lonely up this road, baby)

(Yeah, hmmm, yeah)

(Got more to say!)

Well I'm riding through LA (huh),

on a bicycle built for fools

And I seen one of my old buddies

And he say, "you don't look the way you usually do"

I say, "well, some people look like a coin-box"

He say, "look like you ain't got no coins to spare"

And I laid back and I thought to myself, and I said this:

I just picked up my pride from underneath the pay phone,

and combed this breath right out of my hair

And sometimes it's not so easy

Especially when your only friend

talk, sees, looks and feels like you,

and you do just the same as him

Just got out of a Scandinavian jail,

and I'm on my way straight home to you

But I feel so dizzy I take a quick look in the mirror,

to make sure my friend's here with me too

And you know good well I don't drink coffee,

so you fill my cup full of sand

And the frozen tea leaves on the bottom

Sharing lipstick around the broken edge

And my coat that you let your dog lay by the fire on

And your cat he attacked me from his pill-box ledge

And I thought you were my friend too

Man, my shadow comes in line before you

I'm finding out that it's eh not so easy

Specially when your only friend

Talks, looks, sees and feels like you,

and you do the same just like him

(Lord it's so lonely here, hmmm, yeah)

Yeah!

(Pass me that bottle over there...)

Yeah, yeah, okay...

STRAIGHT AHEAD
Hello, my friend

So happy to see you again

I was so alone

All by my self I just couldn't make it

Have you heard, baby

What the winds blowing round

Have you heard, baby

A whole lot of peoples coming right on down

Communication, yeah

Is coming on strong

And don't give a damn, baby

If your hair is short or long, huh

I said, get out of your grave

Everybody is dancing in the street

Do what you know, don't be slow

You gotta practice what you preach

'Cause it's time for you and me

Come to fake reality

Forget about the past, baby

Things ain't what they used to be

Keep on straight ahead

Keep on straight ahead

Straight ahead, baby

Straight ahead, baby

We got to stand side by side

We got to stand together and organize

They say power to the people,

That's what they're screamin'

Freedom of the soul

Pass it on, pass it on to the young and old

You got to tell the children the truth

They don't need a whole lot of lies

Because one of these days, baby

They'll be running things

So when you give them love

You better give it right

Woman and child and man and wife

The best love to have is the love of life

Pushing on straight ahead

Straigh ahead, baby

Hello my friend

It's so good to see you again

And I've been all by my self

I don't think I can make it alone

I gotta keep on pushing ahead

I can make it alone
I gotta keep on pushing ahead

ASTRO MAN
Here I come to save the day

A little boy inside a dream just the other day

His mind fell out of his face and the wind blew it away

A hand came out from heaven and pinned a badge on his chest

It said "Get out there, man, and do your best"

They call him Astro Man

And he's flyin' higher than

That faggot Superman ever could

Oh, they call him Cosmic Nut

And he's twice as dense as Donald Duck

And he'll try his best toscrew you up

The rest of your mind

Oh, look out! My guitars

Astro Man, flyin' across the sky two times higher

than that old faggot Superman ever, ever could

Ever could

There he goes, there he goes

Where he stops, no one knows

There he goes, there he goes

He's tryin' to, tryin' to blow out the rest of your mind

He's gonna blow out the rest of your mind

Talkin' about lookin' for peace of mind

Astro Man will leave it in pieces

Have you put our trouble behind him

Make you fly around in pieces

Yeah, blow out the rest of your mind

Astro Man will blow out the rest of your mind

He's gonna blow out the rest of your mind

ANGEL
Angel came down from heaven yesterday,
She stayed with me just long enough to rescue me
And she told me a story yesterday
About the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea

And then she spread her wing high over me
She said: She's gonna come back tommorow

Then I said : fly on my sweet angel
Fly on through the sky
Fly on my sweet angel
Tommorow I'm gonna be by your side

Sure enough this woman came home to me
Silver wings silhouetted against a child sunrise
And my angel she said onto me
Today is the day for you to rise

Take my hand your gonna be my man, your gonna rise
Then she took me high over the yonder

And I said : fly on my sweet angel
Fly on through the sky
Fly on my sweet angel
For ever I will be by your side

IN FROM THE STORM
Well I, I just came back today

I just came back from the storm.

Yeah!

I said: I just came back, baby

I just came back from the storm.

Yeah, from the storm.

Well, I didn’t know it then,

But I was sufferin’, sufferin’

For my love to keep me warm.

It was so cold and lonely, yeah.

The wind ’n’ cryin’ blue rain

Were tearing me up.

It was so cold and lonely.

The crying blue rain was tearing me up.

Oh, tearing me up.

I wanna thank you my sweet darling

For digging in the mud and picking me up.

Thank you so much!
(Thank you baby, thank you baby)

It was a crying blue rain that burning my eyes.
The wind and lightning struck by a surprise

It was you my love who brought me in.

I love you so much,

I’ll never stray from you again.

Hey!

I just came back baby.

I just came back to get my baby on her way.

BELLY BUTTON WINDOW
Well, I'm up here in this womb

I'm looking all around

Well, I'm looking out my belly button window

And I see a whole lot of frowns

And I'm wondering if they don't want me around

What seems to be the fuzz out there?

Just what seems to be the hang?

'Cause you know if ya just don't want me this time around,

yeah I'll be glad to go back to Spirit Land

And even take a longer rest,

before I'm coming down the chute again

Man, I sure remember the last time, baby

They were stlll hawkin' about me then

So if you don't want me now,

Make up your mind, where or when

If you don't want me now,

Give or take, you only got two hundred days

'Cause I ain't coming down this way too much more again

You know they got pills for ills and thrills and even spills

But I think you're just a little too late

So I'm coming down into this world, daddy

Regardless of love and hate

And I'm gonna sit up in your bed, mama

And just a grin right in your face

And then I'm gonna eat up all your chocolates,

and say "I hope I'm not too late"

So if there's any questions

,make up your mind

'Cause you better give or take

Questions in your mind

Give it a take,you only got two hundered days

Way up into this womb

looking all around

Sure's dark in here

And I'm looking out my belly button window

And I swear I see nothing but a lot of frowns

And I'm wondering if they want me around