Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple
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Deep Purple
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Deep Purple
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Deep Purple
[Intro]
(Eye-eye-eye)
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh ooh)
Sun sets in the west (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh ooh)
Boy has gone to rest (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh ooh)
Mama clutch her breast (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh ooh oh)
[Verse 1]
All creatures great and small
Graze on blood-red soil
And grass that grows on city streets
It's been a quiet town
Since the juice went down
Now something's washed up on the beach
(A man alive)
[Bridge - Spoken]
After some thousands of years
Fewer than the smallest imaginable intake of breath
The wisest guys in the evolution of humanity became extinct
Mother Nature loves a vacuum
And so, the Earth was cleansed
In no time at all
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
All creatures great and small
Graze on blood-red soil
And grass that grows on city streets
It's been a quiet town
Until the word got round
That something washed up on the beach
(A man alive)
[Outro - Spoken]
A man alone
Washed up on the beach
Just a man
Whoosh...
Man Alive was written by Bob Ezrin & Don Airey & Ian Gillan & Ian Paice & Roger Glover & Steve Morse.
Man Alive was produced by Bob Ezrin.
Deep Purple released Man Alive on Thu Apr 30 2020.
There was an apocalyptic quality to the (music of) ‘Man Alive’, and the idea developed lyrically from there — the scenario of this event that took place and everyone got killed, and you get this picture of ‘all creatures great and small grazed on blood-red soil, and grass that grows on city streets....