DIG THIS PRESENTS "THE JIMI HENDRIX PROJECT" - PART ONE- "1983- A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE" - A PRIVATE DEMO RECORDED IN JIMI'S NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT IN 1967- (WITH PAUSES) 8 MIN.- RERECORDED ON APRIL 22, 1968 FOR THE "ELECTRIC LADYLAND LP

AN UNFILTERED GLIMPSE INTO A GENUINE PRODIGY OF MUSICAL AND LYRICAL IMAGINATION. THIS DEMO CONTAINS PAUSES AS HENDRIX INVENTS THE SONG AS HE PERFORMS AND RECORDS IT ON HIS HOME TEAC REEL TO REEL RECORDER. A merman is a male version of a mermaid. In this song, Hendrix sings about how he wants to escape the war-torn world and all the horrible things going on (The Vietnam War for instance) and be reborn as a merman using a machine. He decides to leave "the out of style" to their destructive ways and live underwater. This song isn't simply anti-war, Hendrix shows his disgust with the whole world we have built and how all human progress has been halted by the murderous gravity of war and the politics of America we were, and continue to be, victimized by. He decides to evolve and escape from the others. FINAL LYRICS- "Hurray I awake from yesterday Alive but the war is here to stay So my love catherina and me Decide to take our last walk thru the noise to the sea Not to die but to be reborn Away from the lands so battred and torn Forever forever Oh say can you see it's really such A mess Every inch of earth is A fighting nest Giant pencil and lipstick-Tube shaped things Continue to rain and cause screamin' pain And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red As our feet find the sand And the sea is straight ahad Straight up ahead Well it's too bad that our friends can't be with us today Well it's too bad The machine that we built Would never save us that's what they say That's why they ain't comin' with us today And they also said it's impossible For A man to live and breathe undrerwater Forever was A main complaint Yeah and they also threw this in my face they said Anyway you know good and well It would be beyond the will of god And the grace of the king Grace of the king Yeah Ooo So my darling and I make love in the sand To salute the last moment ever on dry land Our machine it has done its work played its part well Without A scratch on our body when we bid it farewell Starfish and giant foams greet us with A smile Before our heads go under we take our last look at the killing noise Of the out of style The out of style out of style oh yeah Oooo So down and down and down and down we go Hurry my darlin' we mustn't be late For the show Neptune champion games to an aqua world is so my dear Right this way smiles A mermaid I can hear atlantis full of cheer Atlantis full of cheer I can hear atlantis full of cheer Oh yeah"