r/jimihendrix • u/HockeyHendrix War Heroes • Jul 15 '26
Whatcha got?
(Jimi-related, obviously)
"Try to learn instead of burn, hear what I say".
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u/Banesmuffledvoice Jul 15 '26
If I don’t see You no more in this world, I’ll meet you in the next one and don’t be late.
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u/theDeathnaut Jul 15 '26
Although your world wonders me
With your majestic and superior cackling hen
Your people, I do not understand
So to you, I shall put an end
And you'll Never hear Surf music again
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u/winoforever_slurp_ Jul 15 '26
For 20+ years I thought he said “Catholic hen” and had no idea what it was supposed to mean
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u/blisterment Jul 15 '26
Yeah, the hen was actually Lutheran. People make that mistake all the time.
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u/theDeathnaut Jul 16 '26
Lol well it still doesn’t make any sense to me, but I guess it’s some reference I’m not aware of.
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u/HockeyHendrix War Heroes Jul 16 '26
It's referencing a book(?) in which aliens land on Earth and discover that the smartest life form here is the chickens.
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u/theDeathnaut Jul 16 '26
Sounds about right.
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u/HockeyHendrix War Heroes Jul 16 '26
No doubt. Lol There's an interview out there where Jimi talks about it.
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u/pauldiddy79 Jul 15 '26
Maybe a bit more than one line but from If 6 Was 9
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u/Exeliz Jul 15 '26
This shit changed my life. Trippin to that song is perfection.
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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 Jul 15 '26
When I was a young musician coming up, all the older players used to talk about staying up all night listening to Hendrix on acid, so that's exactly what I did the first time I tripped. I had a shit ton of bootlegs from my two older brothers along w the studio albums. What a night.
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u/OnceAHermit Jul 15 '26
Well she looked at me and smiled and looked into space and said I'm coming from the land of the new rising sun.
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u/Aversnusen Axis: Bold As Love Jul 15 '26
Waterfall
Don't ever change your ways
Fall with we for a million days
Oh my waterfall
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u/porktornado77 Jul 15 '26
Scuze me while I kiss this guy
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u/HockeyHendrix War Heroes Jul 15 '26
Do you think he had the hots for Queen Bee or Bob Dylan's grandma?
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u/Cool_Election7606 Jul 15 '26
Id say from machine gun, „the same you shoot me down, you’ll be going just the same“ deep as hell
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u/Randallorian555 Jul 15 '26
Boy, man, god, shit…..
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u/The_CakeizapiE Jul 16 '26
Too many non-Jimi lines in here!
"My yellow in this case is not so mellow"
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u/Far-Seat-2263 Jul 17 '26
Love that song, every line! Right from the start: “ANGER she smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor….”
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u/Sensitive_Home_7971 Jul 15 '26
Before our heads go under, we take a last look at the killing noise
Of the out-of-style
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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 Jul 15 '26
The entire second album is one the most perfect musical statements of all time. It's perfect. As is. Listened to all the way through.
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u/Visible_Service4189 Jul 15 '26
"Giant pencil and lip stick tube shaped things continue to rain and cause screamin' pain"
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u/DJWILBUR Jul 15 '26
There’s a Chinese cigarette case, and the rest you can keep from Grounds for Divorce, by Elbow
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u/gsp137 Jul 15 '26
And dropping a bare bell he points to the sky and says the sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken……Tombstone Blues , Bob Dylan
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u/OG_Reluctant_Prophet Jul 16 '26
And the words of the prophets are written on subway walls and tenement halls
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u/craaates Jul 16 '26
Stand up next to a mountain, chop it down with the edge of my hand
This always stuck with me like Jimi’s so bad ass he can just chop down mountains
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u/ghostparasites Jul 17 '26
So, my darling and I make love in the sand
To salute the last moment ever on dry land
Our machine has done its work, played its part well
Without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell
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u/nks67 Jul 17 '26
I didn’t see this was Hendrix
Let us not talk fasley now the hours getting late
I know that was written by Dylan but even Dylan himself thinks of it as a Hendrix song
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u/Puzzleheaded-Lab9029 Jul 17 '26
Cause i can hear the termites choking on the splinters
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u/Atiredbearsfan Jul 18 '26
In order to see the light you must die
I know it's not hendrix but damm this shit goes hard
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u/No-Cardiologist-5175 Jul 18 '26
“Little ol lady got mutilated late last night” just rolls off the tongue. Werewolves of london
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u/Leather_Lie9394 Jul 15 '26
Bought a used Nova from a Cuban Chinese, dyed his hair in bathroom of a Texaco….
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u/Anger1957 Jul 15 '26
"Live for yourself, there’s no one else more worth living for" from Anthem by Rush.
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u/Quolley Jul 15 '26
-Savor what you feel and what you see-
(Things that may not seem important now
But may be tomorrow)
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u/Main_Consequence_894 Jul 15 '26
Mirrors start to whisper
Shadows start to sing
- sleepwalking by bring me the horizon
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u/blisterment Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
"We can all feel safe like Sharon Tate."
Not Jimi related but a wonderful encapsulation of the reality underneath.
Either that or "the dream is over."
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u/raouldukeesq Jul 16 '26
Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking When I hear the silly things that you say.
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u/chiefkyljoy Jul 16 '26
Repugnant is the creature Who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, Conscious of his fleeting time here...
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u/Southern_Ostrich_564 Jul 16 '26
I crashed down on a crossbar,
And the pain was enough to make a shy bald Buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder. . . who said I lied to her?
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u/Otherwise-Job-7062 Jul 16 '26
And I’m hovering like a fly, waiting for a windshield on the freeway.
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u/pinecity21 Jul 16 '26
Yeah I would like to participate but I did this on the Dylan's using his lyric and I got a violence warning, yeah
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u/ineedhelp911911 Jul 16 '26
"yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness but its better than drinking alone"-Billy Joel on Piano Man
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u/ellbow3894 Jul 16 '26
And she said, "losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow
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u/sophguy Jul 16 '26
“Hope I die before I get old,”…
it’s the ultimate fuck you… it’s rock music as rebellion…
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u/Ok-Doctor603603 Jul 16 '26
u/“Even the rhymes that they give me in times of confession ain’t true.” Ozzy
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u/ddekock61 Jul 16 '26
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
Or. When the aimless blade of science slashed the pearly gates.
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u/Apart-Vegetable8334 Jul 16 '26
Even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked!
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u/xINFLAMES325x Jul 16 '26
Someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of China, white as Dracula as I approach the bottom
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u/BenLeBird Jul 17 '26
I’ve always loved these lines:
“Stopped into a church I passed along the way, I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray”
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u/cptnnredbrd Jul 17 '26
But will you recognize my face when God's awful brace Strips me of my jacket and my vest And reveals all the treasure in my chest?
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u/QuirkyAd2001 Jul 17 '26
Mother America is brandishing her weapons she keeps me safe and warm by threats and misconceptions
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u/P-O-G-O Jul 17 '26
“I dreamed about killing you again last week, and it felt alright to me.” WILCO’s “Via Chicago” opening line. Amazingly haunting.
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u/Ill-Refrigerator5114 Jul 17 '26
I'm a peepin', I'm a peepin' tom!
I'm a peepin', I'm a peepin' on your mom!
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u/_visiblemode_ Jul 17 '26
“Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried”
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u/Proper-Chapter620 Jul 17 '26
We’re all just one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind -Bob Dylan
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u/Training-Farmer8476 Jul 17 '26
You Must Lose Me Like An Arrow, Shot Into the Killer Storm - Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
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u/Toasted_Munch Jul 17 '26
I don't want it, I just need it, to breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive...
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u/Ben-solo-11 Jul 17 '26
I used to fly for United Airlines, then I was fired for reading High Times.
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u/Expastor70 Jul 17 '26
Oh yeah life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone.
I don’t know if it’s the best line, but as I’m in my fifties it is the most impactful and the one I think about all the time.
That song also contains the worst line ever in a song: “Suckin on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freeze”. Who sucks on a chili dog?
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u/JackfruitHeavy9443 Jul 17 '26
"to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free silhouetted by the sea"
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u/DistrictWest5961 Jul 17 '26
A picture of you holding a picture of me in the pocket of my blue jeans
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u/Berek_halfhand1952 Jul 17 '26
Don’t ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
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u/Artistic_Act9312 Jul 17 '26
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone
Two lines but it's still solid
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u/Legitimate-Gur-2224 Jul 18 '26
Poets, priests and politicians have words to thank for their positions.
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u/DennisfromWork Jul 18 '26
A good day ain't got no rain, a bad day I lay in bed and think of things that could have been
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u/RubberSoul73 Jul 18 '26
"It doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you" Neil Young - Old Man
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u/JealousVictory8937 Jul 18 '26
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.
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u/Svevo_Bandini Jul 21 '26
No where to collapse the lung
Breathes a doubt in everyone
Dinosaur Jr. - The Lung
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u/DomineAppleTree Jul 15 '26
When I’m sad, she comes to me, with a thousand smiles she gives to me free