DEEP PURPLE - CHASING SHADOWS

CHASING SHADOWS

DEEP PURPLE

SONGWRITHER: JON LORDE & IAN PAICE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: DEEP PURPLE

LABEL: EMI

GENRE: HARD ROCK

YEAR: 1969

Deep Purple é o terceiro álbum de estúdio da banda de hard rock britânica Deep Purple, lançado em 1969 pela Tetragrammaton nos Estados Unidos, e pela EMI's Harvest Records no Reino Unido, e Polydor no Canadá e Japão.

Foi lançado durante uma crise interna que culminaria com a saída do vocalista Rod Evans e do baixista Nick Simper.

An original idea of ian's, who is heard playing drums, timbales, maracas and cowbell. Jon is playing claves. The percussion instruments were tracked on afterwards of course. The song is about one of jon's nightmares. Nicky's bass line is a gas. Jon Lord said this about the song in April 1996: The song was something to do with a nightmare I'd had and the lyrics as I wrote them were:

Chasing shadows, over my walls

with myself hardly sleeping

Dwarfs and giants, twenty feet tall

fill the room with their creeping

Sounds of breathing sharpen my ears

then they fade into nothing

Someone's laughter out in the street

fills the night with their loving

I feel the ice in my head

Running its hands through my bed

Not even dreaming I seem to be dead

Colors of yellow and colors of red

All I'm asking some secret voice

is to lead me to darkness

Jon forgot the two last lines:

I'm so tired, dawn never comes

I just hide in the shadows