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DEEP PURPLE
DEEP PURPLE


CHASING SHADOWS (Lord/Paice)


Chasing shadows
Over a horde with a sound of revealing
Dwarves and giants
Twenty feet tall
Fill the room with their clearing

Sounds of breathing
Sharpen my ears when they fade into nothing
Someone's laughter
Out in the street fills the night with their loving, ooh, ooh.

I feel the ice in my head
Running his hands through my bed
Not even dreaming I seem to be dead
Colours of yellow and colours of red

All I'm asking
Some secret voice is to lead me to darkness
I'm so tired, dawn never comes
I just lie in the shadows



BLIND (Lord)

I see reflections in the water
Autumn colours, summer's daughter
And as as the year is growing older
I see winter on my shoulder
I stand in the haze
Watching stormy ripples grow on my own
Never knew your needing
Till I found myself standing here alone

And in the water, such a sad face
Slowly drowning, such a sad face
If only I could change the seasons
Like a poet, I've my reasons
It started to snow in the middle of July
Wonder why
Never did understand you
My sorrow is hanging in the grey sky

In the summer days we flew to the sun
On melting wings
But the seasons changed to fast
Leave us all behind, blind

But then the stone fell on the water
Putting end to summer's daughter
And me, I turn away remembering
All the seasons, such a sad thing
It started to rain in the middle of the sun
Winter's begun
Never did understand you
My sorrow is hanging in the grey sky

In the summer days we flew to the sun
On melting wings
But the seasons changed to fast
Leave us all behind



LALENA (Leitch)

When the sun goes to bed
That's the time you raise your head
That's your lot and life Lalena
Can't blame ya, oh Lalena

Ha te ta, la de da
Can your heart get much sadder
That's your lot and life Lalena
Can't blame ya, oh Lalena

Run your hands through your hair
Paint your face with this pen
That's your lot and life Lalena
Can't blame ya, oh Lalena

When the sun goes to bed
That's the time you raise your head
That's your lot and life Lalena
Can't blame ya, oh Lalena

Ha te ta, la de da
Can your heart get much sadder
That's your lot and life Lalena
I can't blame ya, oh Lalena

Lalena, I can't blame ya Lalena



FAULT LINE (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice)

(instrumental)



THE PAINTER (Blackmore/Lord/Evans/Simper/Paice)

Painter
Come colour up my life
Oh painter
Come colour up my life
Take away the misery
Take away the strife

Writer
Make me up a play
Writer
Make the meaning gay
For I don't know who I am
Just gimme words to say

Singer
Let me sing a song
Singer
Let me sing a song
You don't have to worry
Cause singer you can sing along.



WHY DIDN'T ROSEMARY (Blackmore/Lord/Evans/Simper/Paice)

Just back here we have a crime
Everything I need but nothing's mine
Strange worlds are back here
Why didn't Rosemary ever take the pill?
Left me waiting, waiting for the kill
Old man won't do it, but the devil will

I'm losing time and my mind
Why can't I ever have what's naturally mine?
I got life and the thing that goes with it
If there's something else, where can I get it?
Left me waiting, waiting for the kill
Old man won't do it, but the devil will

Well here's my views, I always lose
Things I want to do are yesterday's news
Say life's a ball, I've had it all
I'm out flat when I have to dance all
Left me waiting, waiting for the kill
Old man won't do it, but the devil will

Take me as I am, a 'scuseful man
Whenever I push someone stops my hand
As a matter of interest, tell me if you will
Why didn't Rosemary ever take the pill?
Left me waiting, waiting for the kill
Old man won't do it, but the devil will

Oh, why won't Rosemary ever take the pill?



BIRD HAS FLOWN (Evans/Blackmore/Lord)

For the beggar on his cornerstone
Catches pity in his wrinkled hand
But the robber whose bird has flown
Catches nothing only grains of sand

All the children in the distant house
They have feelings only children know
But the robber whose bird has flown
Catches nothing only flakes of snow

The sensation's not new to you
It's something we all have known
You get it - it goes right through you
Yes it's something we all have known
And the bird it has flown
To a place on it's own
Somewhere all alone

Now the hermit in his lonely cave
Has himself to keep him company
But the robber whose bird has flown
He has heartaches same as you and me

The sensation's not new to you
It's something we all have known
You get it - it goes right through you
Yes it's something we all have known
And the bird it has flown

Now the hermit in his lonely cave
Has himself to keep him company
But the robber whose bird has flown
He has heartaches same as you and me

Oh same as you and me
Yes he's got 'em started.



APRIL (Blackmore/Lord)

April is a cruel time
Even though the sun may shine
And world looks in the shade as it slowly comes away
Still falls the April rain
And the valley's filled with pain

And you can't tell me quite why
As I look up to the grey sky
Where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
I'll cry, say that I don't know

Baby once in a while I'll forget and I'll smile
But then the feeling comes again of an April without end
Of an April lonely as a girl
In the dark of my mind I can see all too fine
But there is nothing to be done when I just can't feel the sun
And the springtime's the season of the night

Grey sky where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
I'll cry, say that I don't know
I don't know...



EMMARETTA (Lord/Blackmore/Evans)
"Emmaretta / Wring That Neck" single © 1969
"Deep Purple remastered" bonus track © 2000


Emmaretta did you get my letter
I sent it to you oh Emmaretta
Do you still feel when night is falling
Something's calling oh Emmaretta
Behind my thoughts oh Emmaretta
I can get to you to feel better
Oh Emmaretta I must go now
Oh Emmaretta full moon's rising
Oh Emmaretta oh, it's a thousand miles
Oh, and I need you child
Oh, they can drive me wild
What I feel, make it real



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