Words and music by Jimi Hendrix.
Recorded: Mayfall Recording Studio, New York, July 7 & 20, 1967
Producer: Chas Chandler                                            Engineer:
Jimi Hendrix: Guitar, Lead vocals, Electric harpischord and mellotron for harmony vocal effects.
Mitch Mitchell: Drums                                                 Noel Redding: Bass guitar.
Notes: Written by Jimi during a plane trip between L.A. and New York on July 3, 1967.
LYRICS
The morning is dead,
and the day is, too.
There's nothing left here to meet me,
but the velvet moon.
All my loneliness, I have felt today.
It's a little more than enough
to make a man throw himself away.

And I continue
to burn the Midnight Lamp.
Alone.

Now the smiling portrait of you
is still hangin' on my frowning wall.
It really doesen't, really doesen't bother me to much at all.
It's just the ever falling dust
that makes it so hard for me to see
that forgotten earring layin' on the floor.
Facing coldly towards the door.

And I continue
to burn the Midnight Lamp.
Lord, alone.

Lonely, lonely, lonely!

[spoken:] Loneliness ... is such a drag.

So here I sit to face
that same old fireplace,
gettin' ready for that same old explotion
goin' through my mind.
And soon enough time will tell,
about the circus and the wishing well.
And some who will buy and sell for me.
Someone to toll my bell.

But I continue
to burn the Midnight Lamp.
Lord, alone.
Darlin' can't ya hear me callin' you?
So lonely.
Gonna have to blow my mind.
Lonely.

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