Deep Purple Lyrics

Album: Deep Purple

Chasing Shadows Lyrics

(Lord/Paice)

An original idea of ian's, who is heard playing drums, timbales, maracas and cowbell. Jon is playing claves. The percussion instruments were tracked on afterwards of course. The song is about one of jon's nightmares. Nicky's bass line is a gas.

Jon Lord said this about the song in April 1996:

The song was something to do with a nightmare I'd had and the lyrics as I wrote them were:

Chasing shadows, over my walls

with myself hardly sleeping

Dwarfs and giants, twenty feet tall

fill the room with their creeping

Sounds of breathing sharpen my ears

then they fade into nothing

Someone's laughter out in the street

fills the night with their loving

 I feel the ice in my head

 Running its hands through my bed

 Not even dreaming I seem to be dead

 Colours of yellow and colours of red

All I'm asking some secret voice

is to lead me to darkness

Jon forgot the two last lines: 

I'm so tired, dawn never comes

I just hide in the shadows