Machine Gun Composer(s): Jimi Hendrix Originally performed by: Jimi Hendrix Covered by various other artists
Jimi: "Happy new year first of all I hope we'll have a million or two million more of them... If we can get over this summer, he he he Right, I'd like to dedicate this one to the draggin' scene that's goin' on all the soldiers that are fightin' in Chicago, Milwaukee and New York... Oh yes, and all the soldiers fightin' in Vietnam like to do a thing called 'machine gun'"
Machine Gun Tearing my body all apart
Machine Gun, yeah Tearing my body all apart
Evil man make me kill ya Evil man make you kill me Evil man make me kill you Even though were only families apart
Well I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber (You know what I mean) Hey! And your bullets keep knocking me down
Hey, I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now Yeah, but you still blast me down to the ground
The same way you shoot me down, baby Youll be going just the same Three times the pain, and your own self to blame Hey, Machine Gun
I aint afraid of your mess no more, babe I aint afraid no more After a while, your, your cheap talk dont even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain
Cause I know all the time youre wrong baby And youll be going just the same Yeah, Machine Gun Tearing my family apart Yeah, yeah, alright Tearing my family apart
(Dont you shoot him down) (Hes bout to leave here) (Dont you shoot him down) (Hes got to stay here) (He aint going nowhere) (Hes been shot down to the ground) (Oh where he cant survive, no, no)
Yeah, thats what we dont wanna hear anymore, alright? (No bullets) At least here, huh huh (No guns, no bombs) Huh huh (No nothin, just lets all live and live) (You know, instead of killin)
May this be Love or just Confusion Born out of frustration wracked feelings of not being able to make true physical love to the Universal gypsy Queen True, free expressed music Darling guitar please rest Amen
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