Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

EXP

'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to radio station EXP.
Tonight we are featuring an interview with a very peculiar looking
gentleman who goes by the name of Mr. Paul Caruso on the dodgy
subject of "Are there or are there not flying saucers or UFOs?"
Mr. Caruso, please could you give us your regarded opinion on this
nonsense about spaceships and even space people?'

Mr. Caruso [aka Jimi Hendrix]: 'Thank you As you well know you just
can't believe everything thing you see and hear, can you? Now, if
you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.'

Up From the Skies

I just want to talk to you. I won't do you no harm.
I just want to know about your different lives, on this here people farm.
I heard some of you got your families, living in cages tall and cold,
And some just stay there and dust away, past the age of old.
Is this true? Please let me talk to you.

I just want to know about, the rooms behind your minds,
Do I see a vacuum there, or am I going blind?
Or is it just remains from vibrations and echoes long ago,
Things like "Love the World" and "Let your fancy flow,"
Is this true? Please let me talk to you. Let me talk to you.

I have lived here before, the days of ice,
And of course this is why I am so concerned,
And I come back back to find the stars misplaced and the smell of a
world that has been burned.

The smell of a world that has been burned.

Well, maybe, maybe it's just a change of climate.
I can dig it, I can dig it baby, I just want to see.

So where do I purchase my ticket,
I would just like to have a ringside seat,
I want to know about the new Mother Earth,
I want to see and hear everything,
I want to see and hear everything,
I want to see and hear everything.
Aw, shucks,
If my daddy could see me now.

Spanish Castle Magic

It's very far away,
It takes about half a day,
To get there, if we travel by my a......dragonfly

No, it's not in Spain,
But all the same,
You know,
It's a groovy name
And the wind's just right.

Hang on. My darling,
Hang on if you want to go
You know it's a really groovy place
And it's just a little bit of Spanish Castle Magic.

The clouds are really low,
And they overflow,
With cotton candy
And battle grounds,
Red and brown.

But it's all in your mind,
Don't think your time,
On bad things,
Just float your mind around.
Look out
Hang on, my Darling, Yeah
Hang on if you want to go
It puts everything else on the shelf
With just a little bit of Spanish Castle Magic
Just a little bit of daydream here and there.

Wait Until Tomorrow

Well I'm standing here freezing, inside your golden garden,
Got my ladder leaned up against your wall.
Tonight's the night we planned to run away together,
Come on Dolly Mae, there's no time to stall.
But now you're telling me that ah.....

I think we better wait till tomorrow
I think we better wait till tomorrow
I think we better wait till tomorrow
Got to make sure it's right,
So, until tomorrow, goodnight.

Oh, Dolly Mae, How can you hang me up this way?
On the phonw you said you wanted to run off with me today
Now I'm standing here like some turned-down serenading fool,
Hearing strange words coming from the mixed up mind of you.
And you keep telling me that ah......

I think we better wait till tomorrow
I think we better wait till tomorrow
I think we better wait till tomorrow
Got to make sure it's right,
So, until tomorrow, goodnight.
See if I can talk to this girl alone

Oh, Dolly Mae, girl, you must be insane,
So unsure of yourself leaning from your unsure window pane
Do I see a silouhette of somebody pointing something from a tree?
CLICK, BANG,
Oh, what a hang,
Your daddy just shot poor me
And I hear you say as I fade away

We don't have to wait till tomorrow
We don't have to wait till tomorrow
We don't have to wait till tomorrow
It must not have been right, so forever, goodnight.
Do I have to wait, do I have to wait
Its a drag on my part
Don't have wait, don't have to wait.

Ain't No Telling

Well, there ain't no,
Ain't no,
Ain't no telling, baby
When you will see me again, but I pray
It will be tomorrow.

Well, the sunrise
Sunrise
Is burning my eyes, baby
I must leave now, but I really hope
To see you tomorrow.

Well my house is, oh, such a sad mile away,
The feeling there always hangs up my day
Oh, Cleopatra, She's driving me insane,
She's trying to put my body in her brain.
So just kiss me goodbye, just to ease the pain.
Ain't no
Ain't no
Ain't no telling baby
Ain't no telling babe
Ain't no telling baby when you're gonna see me, but I really hope
It will be tomorrow
You know what I'm talking about.
Ain't no telling
Sorry, but I must leave now

Little Wing

Well she's walking through the clouds with a circus mind that's running wild
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairly tales,
That's all she ever thinks about...
Riding the wind

When I'm sad she comes to me
With a thousand smiles she gives to me free
It's alright, she says, it's alright,
Take anything you want from me, anything.

Fly on, little wing.

If 6 Was 9

Yeah, sing a song, Bro'

If the sun refuse to shine,
I don't mind,
I don't mind,
If the mountains fell in the sea,
Let it be,
It ain't me.

Alright, 'cos I got my own world to look through,
And I ain't gonna copy you.

Now if, ah, 6 turned out to be 9,
I don't mind, I don't mind,
Alright, if the hippies cut off all their hair,
I don't care, I don't care.

Dig, 'cos I got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you.

White collared conservative flashing down the street,
Pointing their plastic finger at me.
They're hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high.
Wave on, wave on
Fall mountains, just don't fall on me
Go ahead on Mr. Business man, you can't dress like me.
Sing on Brother, play on drummer.

Don't nobody know what I'm talkin' about
I've got my own life to live
I'm the one that's gonna die when it's time for me to die
So let me live my life the way I want to
Yeah, sing on brother, play on drummer.

You Got Me Floatin'

You got me floatin' round and round,
Always up, you never let me down
The amazing thing, you turn me on naturally,
And I kiss you when I please.

You got me floatin' round and round,
You got me floatin' never down
You got me floatin' naturally
You got me floatin' float to please

You got me floatin' across and through
You make me float right on up to you
There's only one thing I need to really get me there,
Is to hear you laugh without a care.

You got me floatin' round and round,
You got me floatin' never down
You got me floatin' naturally
You got me floatin' float to please

You got me floatin' round and round,
You got me floatin' never down
You got me floatin' naturally
You got me floatin' float to please

Now your Daddy's cool, and your Mamma's no fool,
They both know I'm heads over heals for you,
And when the day melts down into a sleepy red glow,
That's when my desires start to show.

You got me floatin' round and round,
You got me floatin' never down
You got me floatin' naturally
You got me floatin' float to please.

Castles Made of Sand

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.

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 fearless warrior Indian chief

Many moons past and more the dream grew strong until tomorrow he would
sing his first war song and fight his first battle but something went
wrong, suprise 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 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 have to stop, it just kept on
going...

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually...

She's So Fine

She walks with a bell-clock round her neck,
So the hippies think she's in with time
Her hair glistens like robins on a deck
Branches attack me from her neck
She's so fine,
She's so very, very fine.

When I veer I get so near,
But so far far far away,
Listen to me today.

We united just beside a leaf,
The ground was hard underneath,
her, her.
She's so fine.

One Rainy Wish

Gold and rose, the colour of the dream I had,
Not too long ago,
Misty blue and lilac too,
Never to grow old.

There you were under a tree of song, sleeping so peacefully,
In your hand a flower played, waiting there for me.
I have never laid eyes on you,
Not before this timeless day
But you woke and you smiled my name
And you stole my heart away
Stole my heart away little girl
Gold and rose, the colour of the dream I had,
Not too long ago.
Misty blue and lilac too,
Never to grow old.
Gold and rose, the colour of the dream I had,
Misty blue and lilac too
Gold and rose, the colour of the dream I had,
Misty blue and lilac too.
Gold and rose, gold and rose.
Gold and rose, the colour of the dream I had,
Not too long ago.
Misty blue and lilac too

It's only a dream but I'd love to till somebody about this dream,
The sky was filled with a thousand stars,
While the sun kissed the mountains blue,
And eleven moons played across the rainbows above me and you.
Gold and rose, the colour of the velvet walls that surrounds us.

Little Miss Lover

Little Miss Lover, where have you been in this world for so long?
Well, I love a lover that feels like you, would you like to tag along?

Well, I really don't need any help little girl,
But I believe you could help me out anyway.
Would you believe, babe, I've been looking for a Sue,
That feels like you
For some time.

Excuse me while I see if the gypsy in me is right.
If you don't mind.

Well, he signals me O.K.
So I think it's safe to say,
I'm gonna make a play
Hey, hey, little Miss Lover,
There's so much you and me can discover
And I think we should start, start right now.
Hey little Miss Lover.

Bold As Love

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
they quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
but wonder why the fight is on
But they're all bold as love, yes, they're all bold as love
Yeah, they're all bold as love
Just ask the Axis

My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war
and ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring,
but very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frightened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from, eh,
giving my life to a rainbow like you
But, I'm eh, yeah, I'm bold as love
Yeah, yeah
Well I'm bold, bold as love (hear me talking, girl)
I'm bold as love
Just ask the Axis (he knows everything)
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah!

David A. Mellis / stendahl@imsa.edu / Last Modified - May 17, 1997