Deep Purple Lyrics

Album: Deep Purple

Why Didn't Rosemary Lyrics

(Blackmore/Lord/Evans/Simper/Paice)

Vaguely inspired by an Otis Spann number, and again it's an attempt to widen the scope of a plain 12 bar sequence; in fact the verses are 14 bars long and the guitar solo verses are 17 bars long. Interesting words from Rod.

There's a black hill 

We had a climb

Everything I need but nothing's mine

Satan's world, I've had a kill

Why didn't Rosemary ever take the pill?

Lying there waiting, waiting for the kill

Oh man won't do it, but the devil will

I'm losing time and my mind

Why can't I ever have what's naturally mine?

I got life and the things that go with it

If there's something else, where can i get it?

Lying there waiting, waiting for the kill

Oh man won't do it, but the devil will

Well here's my views, I always lose

Things I want to do are yesterday's news

Say life's a ball, I've had it all

Out there in another dance hall

Lying there waiting, waiting for the kill

Oh man won't do it, but the devil will

Take me as I am, an excuse for a man

Wherever I push someone stops my hand

As a matter of interest, tell me if you will

Why didn't Rosemary ever take the pill?

Lying there waiting, waiting for the kill

Oh man won't do it, but the devil will

Oh, why won't Rosemary ever take the pill?