Album: Back to Bedlam (2005)

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• I just can't believe that it's over.
  We were chilling out on the sofa,
  Digging how the guitar goes,
  In a song that no one knows.
  Did you lick that line yourself,
  Or did the voodoo magic help?
  Does everyone have a different take?
  Do you seem real but I seem fake?
  Does everyone get hypnotized by your fire?
  
  So long, Jimmy, so long.
  Though you only stayed a moment,
  We all know that you're the one. Singing,
  So long, Jimmy, so long.
  Sure we're glad for the experience,
  We miss you now you've gone.
  We're just swimming in your soul 'cause,
  We all wish we wrote this song.
  Life goes on.
  
  I'm just so relieved that it's over.
  We were hanging out going nowhere,
  Digging how the guitar goes,
  In a song that no one knows.
  Did you burn that bridge yourself,
  Or did the voodoo magic help?
  Does everyone have a different take?
  Are you just cool and I'm just baked?
  Does everyone get mesmerized by your fire?
  
  So long, Jimmy, so long.
  Though you only stayed a moment,
  We all know that you're the one. Singing,
  So long, Jimmy, so long.
  Sure we're glad for the experience,
  We miss you now you've gone.
  We're just swimming in your soul 'cause,
  We all wish we wrote this song.
  Life goes on. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Jo from Strong City, AlgeriaJImi Hendrix Played what he feeled now days its just a show off who screws it up.
• Smitty from Calgary, CanadaAt the end of this song there is, in my opinion, a tribute to the Doors song 'Riders on the Storm'. The organ playing at the end is almost note for note to the Doors song. I think this song isnt so much just about Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison. maybe its about both of them and the influence they had on late 1960's rock.
• Mark from Phx, AzI agree with Bunty Rene. mesmerized by your Fire " would be referring to" the song Fire by Jimi. More references that support hendrix and not morrison. " or did the voodoo magic help ", " we're glad for the experience", all the references to guitar playing ( morrison played no instrument... at least never that i saw.. so was just the pretty frontman ) also... there are ALOT more experience songs with great guitar solos and almost no doors songs with great solos. And possibly the " we wish we wrote this song " could refer to the multitude of bands or artists that have covered hendrix songs/hendrix covers(that most ignorant people wouid actually attribute to hendrix anyway).
• Bunty from Auckland, New ZealandSorry to burst your bubble, Rene. I thought that, too, and asked him about the Jim Morrison riffs when I interviewed him on my radio show. He confirmed "Jimmy" is Hendrix. Good Guy, very short, used to drive tanks in Kosovo.
• Rene from Shoreview, MnThe Jimi Hendrix connection is a good one, but I think James is actually singing about Jim Morrisson of the Doors. The last part of teh song actually is a riff from a doors song. And "mesmerized by your fire" would be referring to "Come on Baby Light My Fire".

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