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Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground
Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready
But wonder why the fight is on
But they're all bold as love
Yeah they're all bold as love
They're all bold as love
Just ask the axis
My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war
And ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring
But very unsteady for the first go-round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frigthtened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
But I'm bold as love
Yeah I'm bold, bold as love
I'm bold as love
Just ask the axis (he knows everything)
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground
Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready
But wonder why the fight is on
But they're all bold as love
Yeah they're all bold as love
They're all bold as love
Just ask the axis
My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war
And ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring
But very unsteady for the first go-round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frigthtened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
But I'm bold as love
Yeah I'm bold, bold as love
I'm bold as love
Just ask the axis (he knows everything)
Lyrics submitted by stevea2323
Track duration: 08:38
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Jimi often used this notion of the point that we - all humans and animals revolve around - as a grounding point in the center of the earth ( many quoted from him on this) . And the wobble was us not always in balance. In Bold as Love it seems the Axis is metaphor-ed more to the center of human emotion or his emotion or Love. Where all emotions revolve around.
aaronv15 I think you have it all there. Maybe the Axis is supposed to represent the differnt "colors" of love, like how different emotions associated with love -anger, jealousy, tranquilty, confidence, and fear - can take over at times in turn. Perhaps Hendrix's Axis was always turned in the direction of one of the hindering emotions like fear or anger. These emotionas took over and prevented him from "giving my life to a rainbow like you." Recognizing that the other has all the colors, and to love requires all the colors - even the hindering ones. I think Hendrix's goal was to inspire people to accept and get past the hindering "colors" of love and not to get hung up on fear or anger...
number two...aaronv15 is right about the meaning and jimi talks about a similar sort of experience in the song "you got me floatin'"
and third...i just want to thank Lilahbean13 for re-inforcing that this is a song meaning conversation not a little chat room for people like loverorloser, who are complete and total poser idiots and think john mayer is a better guitar player than jimi hendrix... jimi hendrix is a legend jm is a douche and by the way, loverorloser if you go listen to some jimi hendrix songs, you'll find that ALOT of jm's songs have riffs and melodies that were stolen directly from jimi hendrix
so... i guess what i'm trying to say is that jm will never be on a higher level than jimi hendrix
...EVER...
loverorloser... PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK YOU ARE NOT, AND WILL NEVER BE A REAL ROCK FAN
'And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from Giving my life to a rainbow like you'
'Just ask the axis' is a great lyric as it uses the metaphor for war and the enemy, the axis.
How can we stand so bold against great odds, the fight for love when you don't even know why you're being so bold to begin.
LISTEN TO IT!!!!
'And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from Giving my life to a rainbow like you'
'Just ask the axis' is a great lyric as it uses the metaphor for war and the enemy, the axis.
How can we stand so bold against great odds, the fight for love when you don't even know why you're being so bold to begin.
I feel like a complete bastard, but I almost prefer this version over Jimi's O_O
jm is in whole different level than jimmy
plus he will be soon emulating jimmy in guitar.....