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Deep Purple "Man Alive" Official Video - from the album "Whoosh!"
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Don Airey
Don Airey
Composer
Ian Gillan
Ian Gillan
Composer
Roger Glover
Roger Glover
Composer
Steve Morse
Steve Morse
Composer
Ian Paice
Ian Paice
Composer
Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin
Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Sun sets in the west
The boy has gone to rest
Mama clutch her breast
[Verse 2]
All creatures great and small
Graze on blood red soil
And grass that grows on city streets
It's been a quiet town
Since the juice went down
Now something's washed up on the beach
A man alive
[Verse 3]
After some thousands of years
Fewer than the smallest imaginable intake of breath
The wisest guys in the evolution of humanity
Became extinct
Mother Nature loves a vacuum
And so, the earth was cleansed
In no time at all
[Verse 4]
All creatures great and small
Graze on blood red soil
And grass that grows on city streets
It's been a quiet town
Until the word got 'round
That something washed up on the beach
A man alive
[Verse 5]
A man alone
Washed up on the beach
Just a man
Whoosh
Written by: Bob Ezrin, Don Airey, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Steve Morse

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