Deep Purple › No One Came

Maybe it’s because I’m only starting
That I think it won’t take too long
Maybe it’s because I can see you laughing
That I think you’ve got it wrong
Maybe I could be like robin hood
Like and outlaw dressed all in green
Someone said what’s he gonna turn out like
And someone else said never mind
Well I was big and bold and more than twice as old
As all the cats I’d ever seen
I grew my hair and bought a suit
Of shiny white or was it cream
I shook and shivered danced and quivered
And stood on a mountain top
No one came from miles around and said
Man your music is really hot

Well I knew what they meant because I was a freak
My throat was tired and worn
My pretty face just looked out of place
As they poured on the scorn
I wrote on yellow paper from a man who was the king
He said my boy we’ll have some crazy scenes
There weren’t any scenes at all like he was talkin’ about
He must’ve been the king of queens
Well I could write a million songs about the things I’ve done
But I could never sing them so they’d never get sung
There’s a law for the rich and one for the poor
And there’s another one for singers

It’s die young and live much longer
Spend your money and sit and wonder
No one came for miles around
And said man your music is really funky

I believe that I must tell the truth
And say things as they really are
But if I told the truth and nothing but the truth
Could I ever be a star
Nobody knows who’s real and who’s fakin’
Everyone’s shouting out loud
It’s only the glitter and shine that gets through
Where’s my robin hood outfit
Well I’ve come and I’ve gone before you wink an eye
No one ever cared enought to say goodbye
The money’s good and the time you have
Fun and games galore
But you spend your money and lie in bed forgotten
And you wonder what you did it for
No one came from miles around
And said man who’s he?

Deep Purple › Pictures of Home

Somebody’s shouting
Up at a mountain
Only my own words return
Nobody’s up there
It’s a deception
When will I ever learn?

Chorus:

I’m alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home

Wondering blindly
How can they find me
Maybe they don’t even know
My body is shaking
Anticipating
The call of the black footed crow...

Chorus

Here in this prison
Of my own making
Year after day I have grown
Into a hero
But there’s no worship
Where have they hidden my thrown...

Chorus

Deep Purple › River Deep, Mountain High

When you were a young girl
Did you have a rag doll
The only doll you’ve ever owned
Now I’ll love you just the way you loved that rag doll
Only now my love has grown

It gets stronger as the river flows
Deeper baby, heaven knows
Higher, as it goes

Do I love you, my oh my
River deep, mountain high, yeah, yeah, yeah
Do I love you, would I cry
Oh I love you baby, how I love you baby

When you were a young girl
Did you have a puppy
That always followed you around
Well I’m gonna be as faithful as that puppy
No I’ll never never let you down

Cos it gets stronger as the river flows
It gets deeper baby, heaven knows
It gets higher, so much higher, as it goes

Do I love you, my oh my
River deep, mountain high, yeah, yeah, yeah
Do I love you, would I cry
Oh I love you baby, how I love you baby

I love you baby like a flower loves a spring
I love you baby like a robin likes to sing
I love you baby like a schoolboy likes his pie
And oh I love you baby, river deep, mountain high

Do I love you, my oh my
River deep, mountain high, yeah, yeah, yeah
Do I love you, would I cry
Oh I love you baby, how I love you baby

Deep Purple › Sail Away

If you’re driftin’ on an empty ocean
With no wind to fill your sail,
The future, your horizon,
It’s like searchin’ for the holy grail.
You feel there’s no tomorrow
As you look into the water below.
It’s only your reflection
And you still ain’t got no place to go.

Time will show,
When, I don’t know.

Sail away tomorrow,
Sailin’ far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
I’ll be there someday

Oh, woman, I keep returnin
To sing the same old song.
The story’s been told, now I’m gettin’ old.
Tell me,where do I belong?
Feel like I’m goin’ to surrender,
Nard times I’ve had enough.
If I could find a place to hide my face,
I believe, I could get back up.

Time will show,
When, I don’t know.

Sail away tomorrow,
Sailin’ far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I’ll be there someday

Sail away tomorrow,
Sailin’ far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I’ll be there someday

Sail away tomorrow,
Sailin’ far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I’ll be there someday

Deep Purple › Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

While you were out...
The message says
You left a number
And I tried to call
But they wrote it down
In a perfect spanish scrawl
In a perfect spanish scrawl

Yet again
I’m missing you
King size bed
(in a) hotel someplace
I hear your name
I see your face
I see your face

(the) back street dolls
And the side door johnnies
The wide eyed boys with their bags full of
Money
Back in the alley
Going bang to the wall
Tied to the tail
Of a midnight crawl
Heaven wouldn’t be
So high I know
If the times gone by
Hadn’t been so low
The best laid plans
Come apart at the seams
And shatter all my dreams

Sometimes I feel like...
Screaming
Close my eyes
It’s times like this
My head goes down
And the only thing I know
Is the name of this town
Is the name of this town

Yet again
I’m missing you
Won’t be long
O’ coming home
Until that distant time
I’ll be moving on
I’ll be moving on

Deep Purple › Space Truckin’

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

Deep Purple › Speed King

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

Deep Purple › The Mule

No one sees the things you do
Because I stand in front of you
But you drive me all the time
Put the evil in my mind
Used to sing and say my prayers
Live my life without a care
Now I have become a fool
Because I listened to the mule
How can I change when my mind is a friend
Of a lucifer hid in the ground
Just another slave for the mule

Deep Purple › You Fool No One

You fool no one, waiting to see if I’m gone.
So hard to see you are taking your chances with me.
If I find you with some other man
You know what I’m gonna do.
Better run if you see me comin’, ah.

Soon you will fall, making mistakes like before.
When you tell me lies I can see by the look in your eyes.
If you think you’re gonna take me for granted,
Chasin’ round with all you see,
Gonna make you live to regret it, ah.

You fool no one, waiting to see if I’m gone.
So clear to see you’ve had all your chances with me.
You thought that you could take me for granted
But I couldn’t take it no more.
Better run when you see me comin, ah.

- ritchie blackmore, david coverdale, jon lord & ian paice