"Manic Depression" is a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix and first released in 1967 on the Are You Experienced album.

The song's name is an old name for bipolar disorder, a mental health disorder. There is no evidence that Hendrix ever suffered from (or did not suffer from) bipolar disorder himself,^{[citation needed]} but when he was doing a press conference in London his manager at the time, Chas Chandler, told him that he sounded like a manic depressive.^{[citation needed]} So the next day Hendrix wrote this tune.^{[citation needed]} One interesting aspect to the song is that it is in 3/4 time signature.

At Winterland in 1968, Jimi explains to the crowd: "I'd like to do a frustrating type of song for you, it's called Manic Depression, a story about a cat wishing he could make love to music, instead of the same old everyday woman."

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Manic Depression

Manic depression is touching my soul
I know what I want but I just don't know
How to, go about gettin' it
Feeling sweet feeling,
Drops from my fingers, fingers
Manic depression is catchin' my soul

Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain
You make love, you break love
Its all the same
When its, when its over, mama
Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess

Well, I think Ill go turn myself off,
And go on down
All the way down
Really ain't no use in me hanging around
In your kinda scene

Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, in a kiss, kiss
Manic depression is a frustrating mess

-- song written by Jimi Hendrix

Crazy July

Tell us all about it...

In  Crazy July

With its steel-blue sky

Higher than the average guy

Startled by near-lethal light

Brought down in the dead

Of the dead of night

Explosive infatuation

Arrives at third or fourth sight

Fearing what became humiliation

Metaphorical castration

I just wanted to die

I wondered how & why

Words expressions gave

Me away

I was accused of Love

That very same day

The only road of escape

For this world-wearying ape

Is to lock myself in

A darkened room

Before the mania or the gloom

Begins to begin

To muck me up again

How very strange the ways

Of women & men

In early Summer's panic haze

-- JSW aka GP

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