Up From The Skies Lyrics

Lyric discussion by mbrachman 

Cover art for Up From The Skies lyrics by Joan Jett

Why is this listed under Joan Jett? Maybe she covered it, but Jimi Hendrix wrote it and originally performed it with the Experience, for their second album ("Axis: Bold As Love"). One of Hendrix's best (and he had a lot of great ones): soft brush-drumming by Mitch Mitchell, gentle vamping on the guitar with the wah-wah pedal, and shockingly prescient lyrics for 1967: "I have been here before/ in days of ice/and of course this is why/I'm so concerned/ and now I come back to find/ the stars misplaced/ and the smell of a world/ that is burning (repeat) (aside: yeah, well maybe it's just a change of climate..."