Hurrah, I awake from yesterday.
Alive: but the war is here to stay.
So my love, Katherina and me,
Decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea.
Not to die but to reborn,
away from lands so battered and torn...
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 screaming 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.
'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's impossible for a man to live 
and breathe under water, forever", was their main complaint
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)



So my darling and I make love in the sand,
to salute the last moment ever on dry land.
Our machine, it has done its work, played its part well,
Without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell.
Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile,
Before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise
Of the out of style, the out of style, out of style.

--Jimi Hendrix




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   CH     ture, but it was close enough to "1984" to form some sort    CH
   CH     of association (for readers who had experienced Orwell's     CH
   CH     book).--Colin Hartridge                                      CH
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No one could have heard that title when ELL was released without thinking
of Orwell's visionary novel. I don't know if the novel is read much any-
more. After all, 1984 was a few years back, now. But in 1967-1969, that
was one scary m-f book! The thought police, the mind control, the whole
concept of the omniscient autocracy that was actually becoming a reality 
as we watched. The years unfolded with one grim and frightening realization
after another of Orwell's sci-fi fantasy. It looked like we were on some
great cosmic train track headed exactly the direction he had predicted.
Except for one glitch. Someone invented hippies. Big Brother suddenly had
the Holding Company as a sidekick, and it didn't seem all that bad. Mr.
Natural told Flakey Foont during a freak out, "Look, Flakey, whatever it is
that's happening, it keeps on happening, no matter what. Right?" And Flakey
replied, "Right! Gee, thanks, Mr. Natural!" And Country Joe actually stood
up and sang about it all right in their faces. And Jimi told us to "get 
your minds together". There is absolutely no doubt that 1983 was our way
out. And Jimi took the drop out idea to another level. Not just drop out of
society into the woods...why not into the ocean? 

It seemed perfectly reasonable to me. I was spending four or five hours a
day in the ocean anyway. If I could just figure out a way to get those damn
gills to grow! There was a classic surf story to that effect. And the de-
parture was even taken further with the experimental nature of the music in
1983. Who had ever heard sounds like that? Jimi gave us the message, along
with others, but with no subtleties, and then took us there to see what he
was seeing as an alternative to the freight train to oblivion. I've list-
ened to ELL about 50 times in the past month. The drama of the chord pro-
gressions, the watery space music, the mystical lyrics. For non-blues, it's
not too bad!




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