“The traffic lights, they turn a blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags on downstream
Cause the life it lived, is, is dead”

—  Jimi Hendrix

The Wind Cries Mary
Song lyrics, Are You Experienced? (1967)

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American musician, singer and songwriter 1942–1970

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