Words and music by Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix: Guitar, Lead vocals.                            Mitch Micthell: Drums
Noel Redding: Bass Guitar                                       Recorded: Olympic Studios, London,  October 29, 1967.
Producer: Chas Chandler                                          Engineer: Eddie Kramer

Down the street you can hear her scream,
"you're a disgrace!"
as she slams the door in his drunken face,
And now he stands outside and all the
neighbours start to gossip and drool.

He cries "oh girl, you must be mad,
what happened to the sweet love you and me had?"
Against the door he leans, and starts a scene,
and his tears fall and burn the garden green.

And so castles made of sand, fall in the sea.
Eventually.

A little Indian brave, who before he was ten,
played war games in the woods with his Indian friends,
and he built a dream that when he grew up,
he would be a fearless warrior Indian chief.

Many moons passed and more the dream grew stronger,
until tomorrow he would sing his first war sang,
and fight his first battle, but something went wrong.
Surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night.

And so castles made of sand, melts into the sea.
Eventually.

There was a young girl, whose heart was a frown,
because she was crippled for life,
and she couln't speak a sound.
And she wished and  prayed she would stop living,
so she decided to die.
She drew her wheel chair to the edge of the shore,
and to her legs she smiled, "you won't hurt me no more."
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and say
"Look, a golden winged ship is passing my wway!"
And it really didn't have to stop...
it just kept on going...

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea,
eventually.


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