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Trouble - Simple Mind Condition

(The actual release, not the leaked version)

For anyone that has the leaked version, the mix on the actual CD is much different.
Too bad their crappy label can't get this puppy released in the states.
 
NP: Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun

(paraphrased from what I can determine thru headphones/emphasis, mine)

My Friend

Well I'm looking through Harlem
my stomach squealed just a little more
A stagecoach full of feathers and footprints
pulls up to my cellbox door
Now a lady with a pearl-handled necktie
tied to the driver's fence
breathes in my face
bourbon and Coke
possessed words,
'Haven't I seen you somewhere in hell
or was it just an accident?'

and you know how I felt
and so...

Before I could ask was it the east or west side
my feet they howled in pain
The wheels of her bandwagon cut very deep
but not as deep in my mind as the rain
And as they pulled away I could see her words
stagger and fall on my muddy tent
Well I picked them up
brushed them off
to see what they've said
And you wouldn't believe,
'Come around to my room with a tooth in the middle
and bring along a bottle and a president'

And sometimes it's not so easy
especially when your only friend
talks, sees, looks and feels like you
And you do just the same as him
It gets very lonely out this road

Well I'm riding through L.A.
on a bicycle built for fools
And I seen one of my old buddies
and he said, 'you don't look the way you used to do'
I said, well some people look like a coinbox
He said, 'it looks like you ain't got no coins to spare'
And I layed back and I thought to myself,
and I said this
I just picked up my pride from underneath the pay phone
and combed his breath right out of my hair

And sometimes it's not so easy
especially when your only friend
talks, sees, looks and feels like you
And you do just the same as him

I just got out of a Scandinavian jail
and I'm on my way straight home to you
But I feel so dizzy
I take a quick look in the mirror
to make sure my friend's here with me too
And you know good and well I don't drink coffee
so you fill my cup full of sand
And the frozen tvs? on the b...?
cherry lipstick around the broken edge
And that coat that you let your dog lay by the fire on
and your cat he attacks me from his pillbox ledge
And I thought you were my friend too
man, my shadow comes in line before you

I'm finding out that it's not so easy
especially when your only friend
talks, looks, sees and feels like you
And you do the same just like him
Oh it's so lonely (here?)



The LP "The Cry Of Love" was in my vinyl collection once upon a time. Never had it on CD though.

Hmmm tempting...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Jimi-Hendrix-Th...itemZ260182126862QQihZ016QQcategoryZ307QQssPa
geNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

...the most poignant tracks are two simple blues--"My Friend" and "Belly Button Window." The former is a Chicago-blues collage of crowd noises and bar talk with overtones of Bob Dylan,...

...THE CRY OF LOVE is the genuine article, Hendrix' final effort, and it is a beautiful, poignant testimonial, a fitting coda to the career of a man who was clearly the finest electric guitarist to be produced by the sixties, bar none....It does him justice--no mean feat--and I don't think we could have ever wanted anything more than that...Rolling Stone (04/01/1971)


"bar none" indeed. Too bad I don't ebay. Perhaps I should just for this one item. ;)
 
Went cd shopping this morning and this is what I got. I will be listening to them this week.

Elvenking - The Scythe
Suidakra - Emprise to avalon
Samson - Live at Reading '81
Rhapsody - Power of the Dragonflame
Sadus - A vision of Misery
King Diamond - House of god
Adagio - Dominate
Zandelle - Vengeance Rising