Deepest purple

Black night is not right,

I don’t feel so bright,

I don’t care to sit tight.

Maybe I’ll find on the way down the line

That I’m free, free to be me.

Black night is a long way from home.

I don’t need a dark tree,

I don’t want a rough sea,

I can’t feel, I can’t see.

Maybe I’ll find on the way down the line

That I’m free, free to be me.

Black night is a long way from home.



Black night, black night,

I don’t need black night,

I can’t see dark night.

Maybe I’ll find on the way down the line

That I’m free, free to be me.

Black night is a long way from home.

Good Golly, said little Miss Molly when she was rockin'

in the house of blue light

Tutti Frutti was oh so rooty when she was rockin' to the east and west

Lucille was oh so real when she didn't do her daddies will

Come on baby, drive me crazy--do it, do it



I'm a speed king you go to hear me sing

I'm a speed king see me fly



Saturday night and I just got paid

Gonna fool about ain't gonna save

Some people gonna rock some people gonna roll

Gonna have a party to save my soul

Hard headed woman and a soft hearted man

They been causing trouble since it all began

Take a little rice take a little beans

Gonna rock and roll down to New Orleans



[repeat first two stanzas in inverse order]

The golden light about you show me where you're from

The magic in your eye bewitches all you gaze upon

You stand up on your hill and be bop all around you

They wonder where you're from oh yeah

They wonder where I found you

Oh my love it's a long way

Where you're from it's a long way



I tried to understand you, I tried to love you right

The way you smile and touch me always sets my heart alight

Your lips are like a fire burning through my soul

And people ask me where you're from

They really wanna know

Oh my soul it's a long way

Where you're from it's a long way



Magic woman wreckin' up my soul

Things you tell me have never been told

Magic woman I don't know

Electric before me I love you so I love you so



You're racing like a fireball dancing like a ghost

You're gemini and I don't know which one I like the most

My head is getting broken and my mind is getting bust

But now I'm coming with you down the road of golden dust

Oh my love it's a long way

Where you're from it's a long way

There once was a woman

A strange kind of woman

The kind that gets written down in history

Her name was Nancy

Her face was nothing fancy

She left a trail of happiness and misery



I loved her

Everybody loved her

She loved everyone and gave them good return

I tried to take her

I even tried to break her

She said I ain't for takin' won't you ever learn



I want you I need you I gotta be near you

I spent my money as I took my turn

I want you I need you I gotta be near you

Ooh I got a strange kind of woman



She looked like a raver

But I could never please her

On Wednesday mornings boy you can't go far

I couldn't get her

But things got better--she said

Saturday nights from now on baby you're my star



She finally said she loved me

I wed her in a hurry

No more callers and I glowed with pride

I'm dreaming

I feel like screaming

I won my woman just before she died



I want you I need you I gotta be near you

I spent my money as I took my turn

I want you I need you I gotta be near you

Ooh I had a strange kind of woman

Sweet child in time you'll see the line

The line that's drawn between the good and the bad

See the blind man shooting at the world

Bullets flying taking toll

If you've been bad, Lord I bet you have

And you've been hit by flying lead

You'd better close your eyes and bow your head

And wait for the ricochet

Fly into the rising sun,

Faces, smiling everyone

Yeah, she is a whole new tradition

I feel it in my heart



My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me



Talk about her like a Queen

Dancing in a Eastern Dream

Yeah, she makes me feel like a river

That carries me away



My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me



But I'm at home and I just don't belong ...



So far away from the garden we love

She is what moves in the soul of a dove

Soon I shall see just how black was my night

When we're alone in Her City of light



Rising from the neon gloom

Shining like a crazy moon

Yeah, she turns me on like a fire

I get high



My woman from Tokyo

She makes me see

My woman from Tokyo

She's so good to me

Nobody gonna take my car

I'm gonna race it to the ground

Nobody gonna beat my car

I'm gonna break the speed of sound

Oooh it's a killing machine

It's got everything

Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything



I love it and I need it

I bleed it yeah it's a wild hurricane

Alright hold tight I'm a highway star



Nobody gonna take my girl

I'm gonna keep her to the end

Nobody gonna have my girl

She stays close on everybend

Oooh she's a killing machine

She's got everything

Like a moving mouth body control and everything



I love her I need her

I seed her yeah she turns me on

Alright hold tight I'm a highway star



Nobody gonna take my head

I got speed inside my brain

Nobody gonna steal my head

Noaw that I'm on the road again

Oooh I'm in heaven again

I've got everything

Like a moving ground throttle control and everything



I love it and I need it

I seed it eight cylinders all mine

Alright hold tight I'm a highway star



Nobody gonna take my car

I'm gonna race it to the ground

Nobody gonna beat my car

I'm gonna break the speed of sound

Oooh it's a killing machine

Ait's got everything

Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything



I love it and I need it

I bleed it yeah it's a wild hurricane

Alright hold tight I'm a highway star

I'm a highway star I'm a highway star

We had a lot of luck on Venus

We always had a ball on Mars

Meeting all the groovey people

We've rocked the Milky Way so far

We danced around with Borealice

We're space truckin' round the the stars

Come on let's go Space Truckin'



Remember when we did the moonshot

And Pony Trekker led the way

We'd move to the Canaveral moonstop

And everynaut would dance and sway

We got music in our solar system

We're space truckin' round the stars

Come on let's go Space Truckin'



The fireball that we rode was moving

But now we've got a new machine

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah the freaks said

Man those cats can really swing

They got music in their solar system

They've rocked around the Milky Way

They dance around the Borealice

They're Space Truckin' everyday

Come on

The sky is red, I don't understand,

past midnight I still see the land.

People are sayin' the woman is damned,

she makes you burn with a wave of her hand.

The city's a blaze, the town's on fire.

The woman's flames are reaching higher.

We were fools, we called her liar.

All I hear is "Burn!"



I didn't believe she was devil's sperm.

She said, "Curse you all, you'll never learn!

When I leave there's no return."

The people laughed till she said, "Burn!"

Warning came, no one cared.

Earth was shakin', we stood and stared.

When it came no one was spared.

Still I hear "Burn!"



You know we had no time,

we could not even try.

You know we had no time.



You know we had no time,

we could not even try.

You know we had no time.



The sky is red, I don't understand,

past midnight I still see the land.

People are sayin' the woman is damned,

she makes you burn with a wave of her hand.

Warning came, no one cared.

Earth was shakin, we stood and stared.

When it came no one was spared.

Still I hear "Burn!"

Comin' out of nowhere

Drivin' like rain

Stormbringer dance

On the thunder again

Dark cloud gathering

Breaking the day

No point running

'Cause it's coming your way



Ride the rainbow

Crack the sky

Stormbringer coming

Time to die

Got to keep running

Stormbringer coming

He's got nothing you need

He's gonna make you bleed



Rainbow shaker

On a stallion twister

Bareback rider

On the eye of the sky

Stormbringer coming down

Meaning to stay

Thunder and lightning

Heading your way



Ride the rainbow

Crack the sky

Stormbringer coming

Time to die

Got to keep running

Stormbringer coming

He's got nothing you need

He's gonna make you bleed



Coming out of nowhere

Drivin' like a-rain

Stormbringer dance

On the thunder again

Dark cloud gathering

Breaking the day

No point running

'Cause it's coming your way

I don't mind just what you say.

I never heard you, baby, never heard you anyway.

I don't care what you do

just so long as it ain't me and you.

Sly, sly, sly like a demon's eye.



Everything's good, I said, everything's fine.

You don't know, don't know it's the end of your time.

How does it feel to be turned away?

I've known it, baby, almost every day.

Sly, sly, sly like a demon's eye.



I don't need you anymore,

I don't want you, baby, hanging round my door.

You slip and slide round my brain.

You think you're so clever, yeah, but you know you're insane.

Sly, sly, sly like a demon's eye.



I d-d-don't mind just what you say.

I never heard you, baby, I never heard you anyway, no I didn't.

Everything's good, everything's fine.

You don't know it's the end of your time.

Sly, sly, sly like the demon's eye,

like the demon's eye.

We all come out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline

To make records with a mobile we didn't have much time

Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the pest place around

But some stupid with the flure gun burned the place to the ground



Smoke on the water and fire in the sky

Smoke on the water



They burned down the danbling house it died with an awful sound

Funke and Cloud was running in and out pulling kids out the ground

When it all way over we had to find another place

It seemed that we would lose the race



Smoke on the water and fire in the sky

Smoke on the water



We ended up in the Grand Hotel, it way empty, cool and fare

But with the Rolling truck Stones things just outside waking our music here

With the few red lights and a few old beds we made a place to sweat

No matter what we got out of this I know, I know we'll never forget



Smoke on the water and fire in the sky

Smoke on the water