When I die, just keep playing the records.
When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. My nature just changes. See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about is today's blues. The story of life is quicker then the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean? Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. Excuse me while I kiss the sky. I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around. I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked. I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. If I'm free, it's because I'm always running. If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment. Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage. Music is my religion. I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking. oh man, half a million eyes Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you. I can't feel anything right now because there's a few things that's just happened. I just have to lay back and think about it all. You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time. I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments. Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out. When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears. |
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to give people something to dream on. In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. Music is a safe kind of high. Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded. The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel. I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might have unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. I try to use my music to move these people to act. I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it. I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. ..How 'bout the best one sitting in this chair Watch out for your ears, watch out for your ears ok A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about. Festivals shouldn't worry about getting so many people. It's a big ego trip now. They didn't do all that kind of mess with Monterey. I found myself in too much of a box situation. I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, you know, with the destruction and all that. If I had anything to say I'd have to say it to everybody. I didn't think too much of the hype scene and all that because I dug wearin' all those different things. It was fun. Watch out for North Dakota! I was just playing loud. If they let it bother them, they wouldn't even be around today. With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that. Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out. I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time. When I finally do get into it, the whole world's gonna know about it. Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. When I say toilet paper, that's when you come rolling out. Nobody knows where the nose goes, when the doors are closed. |