Cover art for Purple Haze by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Purple Haze

The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Producer
Chas Chandler
Track 1 on
Are You Experienced [US Version with Bonus Tracks] 
Mar. 17, 19671 viewer462.7K views

Purple Haze Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things, they don't seem the same
Acting funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

[Verse 2]
Purple haze all around
Don't know if I'm coming up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me

[Bridge]
Help me! Help me!
Ah no, no

[Instrumental – Guitar Solo]
(Ooh, ahh)
(Ooh, ahh)
(Ooh, ahh)
(Ooh, ahh)

[Verse 3]
Yeah! Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowing, blowing my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
[Outro]
No, help me
No, yeah, purple haze
Oh no, no
Oh, help me
Tell me, tell me (Purple haze)
Can't go on like this
You make me blow my mind, mama (Purple haze)
No, no, no (Purple haze)
No, no (Purple haze)
(Purple haze)

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“Purple Haze” is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967. The song features his inventive guitar playing, which uses the signature Hendrix chord and a mix of blues and Eastern modalities, shaped by novel sound processing techniques. Because of ambiguities in the lyrics, listeners often interpret the song as referring to a psychedelic experience, although Hendrix described it as a love song.

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I dream a lot and I put a lot of my dreams down as songs. I wrote one called ‘First Around the Corner’ and another called ‘The Purple Haze’, which was all about a dream I had that I was walking under the sea.

–Jimi Hendrix

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Are You Experienced [US Version with Bonus Tracks] (1997)
  1. 1.
    Purple Haze
  2. 2.
    Manic Depression
  3. 3.
    Hey Joe
  4. 4.
    Love or Confusion
  5. 5.
    May This Be Love
  6. 6.
    I Don’t Live Today
  7. 7.
    The Wind Cries Mary
  8. 8.
    Fire
  9. 9.
    Third Stone from the Sun
  10. 10.
    Foxey Lady
  11. 11.
    Are You Experienced?
  12. 12.
    Stone Free
  13. 13.
    51st Anniversary
  14. 14.
    Highway Chile
  15. 15.
    Can You See Me
  16. 16.
    Remember
  17. 17.
    Red House
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Credits
Released on
March 17, 1967
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Recorded At
DeLane Lea Studios, London, UK
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