[ d e e p P u r . p l e ) The Highway Star

Machine Head

Album recorded in Montreux, Switzerland
6. - 21. December 1971
Released May 1972

Highway Star

Nobody gonna take my car

I'm gonna race it to the ground

Nobody gonna beat my car

It's gonna break the speed of sound

Oooh it's a killing machine

It's got everything

Like a driving power big fat tyres

	and everything



     I love it and I need it

     I bleed it yeah it's a wild hurricane

     Alright hold tight

     I'm a highway star



Nobody gonna take my girl

I'm gonna keep her to the end

Nobody gonna have my girl

She stays close on every bend

Oooh she's a killing machine

She's got everything

Like a moving mouth body control

	and everything



     I love her I need her

     I seed her

     Yeah She turns me on

     Alright hold on tight

     I'm a highway star



Nobody gonna take my head

I got speed inside my brain

Nobody gonna steal my head

Now that I'm on the road again

Oooh I'm in heaven again I've got everything

Like a moving ground an open road

	and everything



     I love it and I need it

     I seed it

     Eight cylinders all mine

     Alright hold on tight

     I'm a highway star



Nobody gonna take my car

I'm gonna race it to the ground 

Nobody gonna beat my car

It's gonna break the speed of sound

Oooh it's a killing machine

It's got everything

Like a driving power big

	fat tyres and everything



     I love it and I need it

     I bleed it

     Yeah it's a wild hurricane

     Alright hold on tight

     I'm a highway star

     I'm a highway star

     I'm a highway star

Maybe I'm a Leo

Peeping round the door I got a big surprise

Couldn't see a thing but open skies

They've taken her away where is she now



Wish that she was here wish she'd hold my hand

Maybe she could laugh maybe understand

Why was I so cruel where is she now



Acting like a fool I had to make her cry

Maybe I'm a Leo but I ain't a lion

I'm hurting oh so bad, I want her now

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

Never Before


Somebody Somebody

Come to my side

I'm tired I'm crying

I'm sick inside

My woman that woman

Just wasn't right



     CHORUS



     Help me now please my friend

     I never felt so bad before

     Never never before



So funny so funny

Just like a show

One name two people

All in a row

Somebody Somebody

Someone must go



     Chorus



     I was hurt when I was younger

     By a woman who was cold

     She took my name

     She took my body

     And she threw away my soul



Can't hide I can't hide my misery

I know my sorrow won't set me free

She did it d'you see she did it to me



     Help me now please my friend

     I never felt so bad before

     Never never before


Smoke on the Water


We all came out to Montreux

On the Lake Geneva shoreline

To make records with a mobile

We didn't have much time

Frank Zappa and the Mothers

Were at the best place around

But some stupid with a flare gun

Burned the place to the ground

Smoke on the water, fire in the sky



They burned down the gambling house

It died with an awful sound

Funky Claude was running in and out

Pulling kids out the ground

When it all was over

We had to find another place

But Swiss time was running out

It seemed that we would lose the race

Smoke on the water, fire in the sky



We ended up at the Grand Hotel

It was empty cold and bare

But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside

Making our music there

With a few red lights and a few old beds

We make a place to sweat

No matter what we get out of this

I know we'll never forget

Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

Lazy


You're lazy just stay in bed

You're lazy just stay in bed

You don't want no money

You don't want no bread



If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw

If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw

You don't want to live you don't want to cry no more



Well my trying ain't done no good

I said my trying ain't done no good

You don't make no effort no not like you should



Lazy you just stay in bed

Lazy you just stay in bed

You don't want no money

You don't want no bread

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


All songs written by
Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice

Deep Purple Mk2:

Ritchie Blackmore (guitar)
Ian Gillan (vocals)
Roger Glover (bass)
Jon Lord (keyboards)
Ian Paice (drums)


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