Castles Made of Sand
Jimi Hendrix Lyrics
Down the street you can hear her scream "you're a disgrace"
As she slams the door in his drunken face,
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbors start to gossip and drool
He cries "Oh girl, you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?"
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
Fall in the sea, eventually
A little Indian brave who before he was ten,
Played war games in the woods with his Indian friends,
And he built a dream that when he grew up,
He would be a fearless warrior Indian Chief
Many moons passed and more the dream grew stronger,
Until tomorrow, he would sing his first war song,
And fight his first battle, but something went wrong,
Surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night
And so castles made of sand,
Melts into the sea, eventually
There was a young girl, whose heart was a frown,
'Cause she was crippled for life, and she couldn't speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she could stop living,
So she decided to die
She drew her wheel chair to the edge of the shore, and to her legs she smiled
"You won't hurt me no more"
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and say
"Look, a golden winged ship is passing my way"
And it really didn't have to stop, it just kept on going
And so castles made of sand
Slips into the sea, eventually
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Written by: JIMI HENDRIX
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James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Read Full BioJames Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".
Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.
Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."
Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.
Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."
Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.
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Ray Ursillo
Down the street, you can hear her scream, "You're a disgrace"
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbors start to gossip and drool
He cries, "Oh girl, you must be mad
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?"
Against the door he leans and starts a scene
And his tears fall and burn on the garden green
And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea
Eventually
A little Indian brave who before he was ten
Played war games in the woods with his Indian friends
And he built a dream that when he grew up
He would be a fierce warrior Indian chief
Many moons passed 'fore the dream grew strong
Until tomorrow he would sing his first war song
And fight his first battle, but something went wrong
Surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night
And so castles made of sand
Melts into the sea
Eventually
There was a young girl whose heart was a frown
Because she was crippled for life, and she couldn't speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she could stop living
So she decided to die
She drove her wheelchair to the edge of the shore
And to her legs she smiled, "You won't hurt me no more"
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and say
"Look, a golden winged ship is passing my way"
And it really didn't ever stop
It just kept on going
And so castles made of sand
Slips into the sea
Eventually
PATRICIAYDIEGO ORMAZA-MARTINEZ
Ethan, after reading this comment of yours I can't help but having mixed feelings.
On the one hand, it makes me remember moments of my life, long before the Internet era, being a poor and fool child, and after buying a CD in a department store, finding out that I had bought an empty CD case so, since then, I decided I would never give a cent before I could check what I was buying, let alone music (the artist [that was not Jimi Hendrix, by the way] or the store never regretted having sold me something non-existent so, if they never cared about me, why was I supposed to care about them? [in those days, my friends or myself we always tried to keep updated borrowing or lending this or that LP, so you always knew in advanced, if you bought the LP, if it was worth the effort or not]).
On the other hand, I also can't help thinking that artists need to pay their bills too but, what should be the fair price for their creativity or their creations? I have seen works of art literally destroyed because they weren't preserved or managed properly but, yes OK, sorry, let me return to the subject at hand... Yes, Jimi Hendrix creations, songs and LPs; all right, Jimi died and now, his sister, Janie, manages his copyrights and, if not all, almost all of Jimi's legacy, at this point, in my opinion, the question is, is she doing a good job? Are Jimi Hendrix' compositions and memory being managed properly?Is fair a law that allows somebody, that had nothing to do with the process of creating a work of art, earns the benefits that it could generate or even more than the artist itself?
In my opinion, the answer might be found in the fact, not only of the numbers that Hendrix' LPs may produce at a certain moment, but also taking into consideration how many people know about Jimi Hendrix music and how well people know about Hendrix contributions to popular music, and honestly , if I try to answer this last question, I just can say that, the people of the 21st century seem to know less about Jimi Hendrix and his music than the people of the 20th.
I can't show other people, on YouTube, that the effect that was used to record the guitar solo for the song, 'Give it away' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, was adopted from the the effect of the guitar solo that sounds in 'Castles made of sand', by Jimi Hendrix.
I can't also show other people how mediocre 'Wait until tomorrow' covered by John Mayer is, if I can't show them the original studio recording of that song by Jimi Hendrix, and so on.
By last, if it were not enough, the best biopic of Jimi Hendrix is, 'All is by my side' (whose soundtrack has not any song composed by Jimi Hendrix) which in general is a film that, at its best, does not do him justice.
But this is the way the world works so I shall enjoy this máster piece until it is banned by Sony or, who knows who...
Stijn Roeles
Down the street, you can hear her scream, "You're a disgrace"
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbors start to gossip and drool
He cries, "Oh girl, you must be mad
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?"
Against the door he leans and starts a scene
And his tears fall and burn on the garden green
And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea
Eventually
A little Indian brave who before he was ten
Played war games in the woods with his Indian friends
And he built a dream that when he grew up
He would be a fierce warrior Indian chief
Many moons passed 'fore the dream grew strong
Until tomorrow he would sing his first war song
And fight his first battle, but something went wrong
Surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night
And so castles made of sand
Melts into the sea
Eventually
There was a young girl whose heart was a frown
Because she was crippled for life, and she couldn't speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she could stop living
So she decided to die
She drove her wheelchair to the edge of the shore
And to her legs she smiled, "You won't hurt me no more"
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and say
"Look, a golden winged ship is passing my way"
And it really didn't ever stop
It just kept on going
And so castles made of sand
Slips into the sea
Eventually
John Watt
"There was a young girl whose heart was a frown, 'cause she was crippled for life,
and she couldn't speak a sound, and she wished and prayed she could stop living, so she decided to die.
She drew her wheelchair to the edge of the shore, and to her legs she smiled you won't hurt me no more.
But then a sight she never seen made her jump and say, look, a golden winged ship is passing my way,
and it really didn't have to stop, it just kept on going,
and so castles made of sand... slips into the sea... eventually".
There are so many girls, with lives up-side down, 'cause they have to wear a mask,
and live like no-one's around. Until one election, they decided to vote.
They took themselves, all standing in line, and made sure their votes counted by voting in time.
Suddenly, some men she had never seen before came in and said stop, we have to monitor you,
to make sure you vote for who we want you to, and they didn't stop, they just kept on watching,
and so democracies lost in cyber-space become weak links for the human race, eventually.
chris edwards
Finally.better enjoy it while u can
ICEwaterCED
This a ride
MatchesMalone
@LoVeWaVeSdRiFtInG fOrEvEr drifters escape? The
LoVeWaVeSdRiFtInG fOrEvEr
Shagadelic 42 agreed A GREED.. 😞
LoVeWaVeSdRiFtInG fOrEvEr
emil elliman
Id like to hear “Drifting... “ ..as well ..
LoVeWaVeSdRiFtInG fOrEvEr
The Brooklyn Bridge me too.. 💕🌟💕🌟💕🌟💕🌟💕
Daryl Chambers
Today is the 50th anniversary of Jimi`s passing. Rest Easy. Gone but not forgotten. This is my favourite Hendrix song.
Detrumal l
Its crazy it been 50 years already
peterswar Peterson
Never a truer word spoken. Just born to play guitar. The great man took music to another level. We have jimi to thank for so many great musicians. R.I.P jimi.
RobbieLawsonGuitar
Shame this will get taken down