JIMI HENDRIX - My Friend lyrics

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Hey, look out for my glass up there, man! <br />

That's my drink, man, that's my drink, alright... <br />

Make it a double, or eh... <br />

Somebody has to sing <br />

Some body will sing? <br />

Somebody will sing, right? <br />

(I don't know!) <br />

<br />

Y'all pass me that bottle, <br />

And I'll sing you all a real song <br />

Yeah! <br />

Let me get my key, ahum! <br />

<br />

Well, I'm looking through Harlem <br />

My stomach squeal just a little more <br />

A stagecoach full of feathers and footprints, <br />

Pulls up to soap box door <br />

Now a lady with a pearl handled necktie <br />

Tied to the driver's fence <br />

Breathes in my face, <br />

Bourbon and coke possessed words <br />

& "Haven't I seen you somewhere in hell, <br />

Or was it just an accident?" <br />

(You know how I felt then, and so:) <br />

<br />

Before I could ask "was it the East or West side?" <br />

My feet they howled in pain <br />

The wheels of a bandwagon cut very deep, <br />

But not as deep in my mind as the rain <br />

And as they pulled away I could see her words <br />

Stagger and fall on my muddy tent <br />

Well I picked them up, brushed them off, <br />

To see what they say, <br />

And you wouldn't believe: <br />

`Come around to my room, with the tooth in the middle, <br />

And bring along the bottle and a president' <br />

<br />

And eh sometimes it's not so easy, baby <br />

Especially when your only friend, <br />

Talks, sees, looks and feels like you, <br />

And you do just the same as him <br />

(Gets very lonely up this road, baby) <br />

(Yeah, hmmm, yeah) <br />

(Got more to say!) <br />

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Well I'm riding through LA (huh), <br />

On a bicycle built for fools <br />

And I seen one of my old buddies <br />

And he say, "you don't look the way you usually do" <br />

I say, "well, some people look like a coin-box" <br />

He say, "look like you ain't got no coins to spare" <br />

And I laid back and I thought to myself, and I said this: <br />

I just picked up my pride from underneath the pay phone, <br />

And combed this breath right out of my hair <br />

And sometimes it's not so easy <br />

Especially when your only friend <br />

Talk, sees, looks and feels like you, <br />

And you do just the same as him <br />

<br />

Just got out of a Scandinavian jail, <br />

And I'm on my way straight home to you <br />

But I feel so dizzy I take a quick look in the mirror, <br />

To make sure my friend's here with me too <br />

And you know good well I don't drink coffee, <br />

So you fill my cup full of sand <br />

And the frozen tea leaves on the bottom <br />

Sharing lipstick around the broken edge <br />

And my coat that you let your dog lay by the fire on <br />

And your cat he attacked me from his pill-box ledge <br />

And I thought you were my friend too <br />

Man, my shadow comes in line before you <br />

I'm finding out that it's eh not so easy <br />

Specially when your only friend <br />

Talks, looks, sees and feels like you, <br />

And you do the same just like him <br />

<br />

(Lord it's so lonely here, hmmm, yeah) <br />

Yeah! <br />

(Pass me that bottle over there...) <br />

Yeah, yeah, okay...