Jimi Hendrix - My Friend

My Friend

Hey, look out for my glass up there, man
Thats my drink, man, thats my drink, alright...
Make it a double, or eh...
Somebody has to sing
Some body wi will sing?
Somebody wi will sing, right?
(I dont know)
Yall pass me that bottle,
And I will sing you all a real song
Yeah
Let me get my key, ahum
Well, Imlooking through Harlem
my stomach squeal just a lit tle more
A stagecouch full of feathers and footprints,
pulls up to soap¨box door
Now a lady wit h a pearl¨handled necktie
Tied to the drivers fence
breathes in my face,
bourbon and coke possessed words
quot;Havent I seen you somewhere in hell,
or was it just an accident?"
(You know how I felt then, and so:)
Before I could ask "was it the East or West side?"
my feet they howled in pain
The wheels of a bandwagon cut very deep,
but not as deep in my mind as the rain
And as they pulled away I could see her words
Stagger and fall on my muddy tent
Well I picked them up, brushed them off,
to see what they say,
and you wouldnt believe:
Come around to my room, wit h the tooth in the middle,
and bring along the bottle and a president
And eh sometimes it s not so easy, baby
Especially when your only friend,
talks, sees, looks and feels like you,
and you do just the same as him
(Gets very lonely up this road, baby)
(Yeah, hmmm, yeah)
(Got more to say)
Well Imriding through LA (huh),
on a bicycle built for fools
And I seen one of my old buddies
And he say, "you dont look the way you usually do"
I say, "well, some people look like a coin-box"
He say, "look like you aint got no coins to spare"
And I laid back and I thought to myself, and I said this:
I just picked up my pride from underneath the pay phone,
and combed this breath right out of my hair
And sometimes it s not so easy
Especially when your only friend
talk, sees, looks and feels like you,
and you do just the same as him
just got out of a Scandinavian jail,
and Imon my way straight home to you
But I feel so dizzy I take a quick look in the mirror,
to make sure my friends here wit h me too
And you know good well I dont drink coffee,
so you fi will my cup full of sand
And the frozen tea leaves on the bottom
Sharing lipstick around the broken edge
And my coat that you let your dog lay by the fire on
And your cat he attacked me from his pill¨box ledge
And I thought you were my friend too
Man, my shadow comes in line before you
Imfinding out that it s eh not so easy
Specially when your only friend
Talks, looks, sees and feels like you,
and you do the same just like him
(Lord it s so lonely here, hmmm, yeah)
Yeah
(Pass me that bottle over there...)
Yeah, yeah, okay...