Released: July 9, 1971
Songwriter: Ian Paice Jon Lord Roger Glover Ian Gillan Ritchie Blackmore
Producer: Deep Purple
[Verse 1]
Really hate the running
Really hate the game
Looking at them all
I wanna be unborn again
Their suit is getting tighter
Although they're getting thin
The flies are crawling on their face
And trying to get in
[Pre-Chorus]
People say that we're to blame, I say
No no no, it's just the game
[Chorus]
Must we let them fool us? No no no
Have we got our freedom? No no no
Is it getting better? No no no
Do we love each other? No no no
Must we wait forever? No no no no no
[Instrumental break 1:32-2:46]
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 2]
Heads are getting stronger bodies getting weak
Looking at them all it feels good to be a freak
Their hands are getting closer they're reaching out so far
The greenies gonna get them make them serve stars
Tell them how it is and they say
No no no we know it all
We know it all
[Chorus]
Must we let them fool us? No no no
Have we got our freedom? No no no
Is it getting better? No no no
Do we love each other? No no no
Must we wait forever? No no no no no
[Instrumental break 4:04-5:23]
[Organ solo]
[Verse 3]
The washing's getting dirty the air is getting thin
It's all in such a mess that no one knows where to begin
They talk about creating but all they do is kill
They say we're gonna mend it but they never will
Poison in the rain but they say
No no no we ain't to blame
It ain't us
[Chorus]
Must we let them fool us? No no no
Have we got our freedom? No no no
Is it getting better? No no no
Do we love each other? No no no
Must we wait forever? No no no no no
Really hate the running
Really hate the game
Looking at them all
I wanna be unborn again
Their suit is getting tighter
Although they're getting thin
The flies are crawling on their face
And trying to get in
[Pre-Chorus]
People say that we're to blame, I say
No no no, it's just the game
[Chorus]
Must we let them fool us? No no no
Have we got our freedom? No no no
Is it getting better? No no no
Do we love each other? No no no
Must we wait forever? No no no no no
[Instrumental break 1:32-2:46]
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 2]
Heads are getting stronger bodies getting weak
Looking at them all it feels good to be a freak
Their hands are getting closer they're reaching out so far
The greenies gonna get them make them serve stars
Tell them how it is and they say
No no no we know it all
We know it all
[Chorus]
Must we let them fool us? No no no
Have we got our freedom? No no no
Is it getting better? No no no
Do we love each other? No no no
Must we wait forever? No no no no no
[Instrumental break 4:04-5:23]
[Organ solo]
[Verse 3]
The washing's getting dirty the air is getting thin
It's all in such a mess that no one knows where to begin
They talk about creating but all they do is kill
They say we're gonna mend it but they never will
Poison in the rain but they say
No no no we ain't to blame
It ain't us
[Chorus]
Must we let them fool us? No no no
Have we got our freedom? No no no
Is it getting better? No no no
Do we love each other? No no no
Must we wait forever? No no no no no
more tracks from the album
Fireball
- Anyone’s Daughter
- Backwards Piano (Reversed piano solo at the end of ”No One Came”)
- The Noise Abatement Society Tapes (Midnight in Moscow/Robin Hood/William Tell)
- No One Came (Remix ’96)
- Freedom
- Slow Train
- I’m Alone
- Fireball (Take 1: instrumental)
- Strange Kind of Woman
- No One Came
- Fools
- The Mule
- Demon’s Eye (Remix ’96)
- No No No
- Fireball
- Strange Kind of Woman (Remix ’96)
From the album
- Fireball (1971)
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- Soldier of Fortune
- Child in Time
- Perfect Strangers
- Highway Star
- Hush
- Burn
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Strange Kind of Woman
- All I Got Is You
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Space Truckin’
- Black Night
- Lazy
- Speed King
- Stormbringer
- Fireball
- The Surprising
- Maybe I’m a Leo
- Pictures of Home
- Mistreated
- That’s Why God Is Singing The Blues
- Slow Down Sister
- Painted Horse