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Chasing Shadows by Deep Purple

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Deep Purple

Chasing Shadows

Release date: 21st June 1969

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"Chasing Shadows" is a track by Deep Purple, from the album Deep Purple, released 21st June 1969. Full lyrics are available below.

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Deep Purple

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Lyrics

Chasing Shadows

[Intro]

[Verse 1]

Chasing shadows, over my walls

With myself hardly sleeping

Dwarfs and giants, twenty feet tall

Fill the room with their creeping, oh

[Verse 2]

Sounds of breathing sharpen my ears

Then they fade into nothing

Someone's laughter out in the street

Fills the night with their loving

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

All I'm asking, some secret voice

Is to lead me to darkness

I'm so tired, dawn never comes

I just lie in the shadows

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4]

All I'm asking, some secret voice

Is to lead me to darkness

I'm so tired, dawn never comes

I just lie in the shadows

[Chorus]

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

[Organ Solo]

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Track details

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1969
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Deep Purple
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Release year
1969
  1. —Fault Line
  2. —Chasing Shadows
  3. —Emmaretta (Studio B-side)
  4. —Emmaretta (BBC Top Gear session)
  5. —Lalena (BBC Radio Session)
  6. —The Painter
  7. —Bird Has Flown
  8. —Blind
  9. —April
  10. —Why Didn’t Rosemary
  11. —Lalena
  12. —The Painter (BBC Radio Session)

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