Deep Purple - Chasing Shadows

This is the first track from Deep Purple’s third and eponymous album, Deep Purple (1969). Lineup (Mk I): Ritchie Blackmore: guitar, Rod Evans: lead vocals, Nick Simper: bass guitar and backing vocals, Jon Lord: Hammond organ, keyboards, and backing vocals, Ian Paice: drums Lyrics: 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 I’m so tired, dawn never comes I just hide in the shadows