The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Recorded in May, 1967, this melancholy blues song appears on Electric Ladyland (1968) and was first released as a U.K. single (above). Jimi Hendrix uses the wah-wah effect on his guitar for the first time and also overdubs some harpsichord embellishments.
This song is about the traveling that Jimi...
[Verse 1]
The morning is dead, and the day is too
There's nothing left here to lead me but the velvet moon
All my loneliness I have felt today
It's a little more than enough to make a man throw himself away
[Refrain]
And I continue to burn the midnight lamp alone
[Verse 2]
Now the smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall
It really doesn't, it really doesn't bother me too much at all
It's just the, uh, ever-falling dust that makes it so hard for me to see
That forgotten earring laying on the floor facing coldly toward the door
[Chorus]
And I continue to burn the midnight lamp all alone
Burn
Yeah, yeah
Lonely, lonely, lonely
Loneliness is such a drag
[Verse 3]
So here I sit to face that same old fireplace
Getting ready for the same old explosion going through my mind
And soon enough, the time will tell
About the surface in the wishing well
And someone who will buy and sell for me
Someone who will toll my bell
[Chorus]
And I continue to burn the same old lamp alone
Yeah, darling, can you hear me calling you?
So lonely, gotta blow my mind
Yeah, yeah, lonely, lonely
My mind
Burning of the Midnight Lamp was written by Jimi Hendrix.
Burning of the Midnight Lamp was produced by Jimi Hendrix.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience released Burning of the Midnight Lamp on Thu Aug 17 1967.
Hendrix: “That’s really a song I’m proud of. Some people say this is the worst track we have ever done. I think it is the best. Even if the technique is not great, even if the sound is not clear and even if the lyrics can’t be properly heard, this is a song that you often listen to and come back to....