AN UNFILTERED GLIMPSE INTO A GENUINE PRODIGY OF MUSICAL AND  LYRICAL IMAGINATION.
THIS DEMO CONTAINS PAUSES AS HENDRIX INVENTS THE SONG AS HE PERFORMS AND RECORDS IT ON HIS HOME TEAC REEL TO REEL RECORDER.

• A merman is a male version of a mermaid. In this song, Hendrix sings about how he wants to escape the war-torn world and all the horrible things going on (The Vietnam War for instance) and be reborn as a merman using a machine.
•  He decides to leave "the out of style" to their destructive ways and live underwater.
• This song isn't simply anti-war, 
• Hendrix shows his disgust with the whole world we have built and how all human progress has been halted by the murderous gravity of war and the politics of America we were, and continue to be, victimized by.
• He decides to evolve and escape from the others. 
• FINAL LYRICS-
• "Hurray I awake from yesterday
  Alive but the war is here to stay
  So my love catherina and me
  Decide to take our last walk thru the noise to the sea
  Not to die but to be reborn
  Away from the lands so battred and torn
  Forever forever
  Oh say can you see it's really such A mess
  Every inch of earth is A fighting nest
  Giant pencil and lipstick-Tube shaped things
  Continue to rain and cause screamin' pain
  And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
  As our feet find the sand
  And the sea is straight ahad
  Straight up ahead
  Well it's too bad that our friends can't be with us today
  Well it's too bad
  The machine that we built
  Would never save us that's what they say
  That's why they ain't comin' with us today
  And they also said it's impossible
  For A man to live and breathe undrerwater
  Forever was A main complaint
  Yeah and they also threw this in my face they said
  Anyway you know good and well
  It would be beyond the will of god
  And the grace of the king
  Grace of the king
  Yeah
  Ooo
  So my darling and I make love in the sand
  To salute the last moment ever on dry land
  Our machine it has done its work played its part well
  Without A scratch on our body when we bid it farewell
  Starfish and giant foams greet us with A smile
  Before our heads go under we take our last look at the killing noise
  Of the out of style
  The out of style out of style oh yeah
  Oooo
  So down and down and down and down we go
  Hurry my darlin' we mustn't be late
  For the show
  Neptune champion games to an aqua world is so my dear
  Right this way smiles A mermaid
  I can hear atlantis full of cheer
  Atlantis full of cheer
  I can hear atlantis full of cheer
  Oh yeah"