I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
i should of quit you
a long time ago
I should of quit you baby
a long time ago
but you got me messin' round with you baby
you got me cryin' on a killin' floor, yeah
if I don't fallow, yeah
my first mind
if I don't fallow pretty baby
my first mind
I would have been gone since my second time
yeah
lord knows, right now
I should've been gone
lord knows, I should've been gone
you got me messin' round with you baby
you got me cryin' on a killin' floor
yeah, thats all
ooh, you got me cryin' baby
ohh, you got me cryin'
a long time ago
I should of quit you baby
a long time ago
but you got me messin' round with you baby
you got me cryin' on a killin' floor, yeah
if I don't fallow, yeah
my first mind
if I don't fallow pretty baby
my first mind
I would have been gone since my second time
yeah
lord knows, right now
I should've been gone
lord knows, I should've been gone
you got me messin' round with you baby
you got me cryin' on a killin' floor
yeah, thats all
ooh, you got me cryin' baby
ohh, you got me cryin'
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A blues song orginally done by Howlin' Wolf
brilliant hendrix song ( i have the live version) but i don't like the first little solo, its a little repetitive of his other work.
I thought the originial was by Robert Johnson.. But who really knows with blues. Great song
its not by Robert Johnson. He died when he was young, and it wasn't one of the songs he recorded.
It's about a guy who thinks he should have left his woman a while ago. But I don't really know what it means by 'crying on that killing floor'.
Maybe the killing floor is the crappy lino in their cheap unit kitchen where there are several dead cockaroaches.
Killing floor is a slaughterhouse. A crappy job black people could have during the forties in Chicago. Howlin Wolf who wrote it maybe had some slaughterhouse crappy job in the beginning. I believe Skip James had a song that references it too. The dude is crying cause his wife has left him and he also got a real crappy job working at the slaughterhouse. That's enough to make a grown man cry I guess lol.
I've always liked how, in Wolf's take on this one, he not only was stuck working in the slaughterhouse because he stays with the babe in Chicago but sees himself as a steer being led to his death.
Back in '68, Electric Flag nailed the hell out of this one.
I never cared much for the Howlin Wolf version...it always seemed to be missing something. Jimi sped the song up and added some serious energy to it. The live version on Jimi Plays Monterey is an excellent version. This is the song he did with Eric Clapton and Cream just after arriving in England. According to legend, Clapton was so blown away, afterwards, he left the stage, sat down and had a drink.