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Deep Purple - Machine Head
Band
Album

Machine Head

(1972)
TypeAlbum (Studio full-length)
GenresHard Rock
LabelsPurple Records, Warner Bros. Records
Ranked#1 for 1972 , #15 all-time
Album rating :  95.1 / 100
Votes :  93
3. Pictures of Home (5:03)
Track rating :  88.3 / 100       Votes :  14       [ ]
Somebody's shouting
Up at a mountain
Only my own words return
Nobody's up there
It's a deception
When will I ever learn?

I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home

Wondering blindly
How can they find me
Maybe they don't even know
My body is shaking
Anticipating
The call of the black hooded crow...

I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And taunting with pictures of home

Here in this prison
Of my own making
Year after day I have grown
Into a hero
But there's no worship
Where have they hidden my throne?...

I'm alone here
With emptiness eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And screaming out pictures of home
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Deep Purple - Machine Head
Machine Head - Album Credits
Members
Other staff
  • Deep Purple : Producer
  • Martin Birch : Engineer, Mixing Engineer
  • Jeremy "Bear" Gee : Assistant Engineer
  • John Coletta : Cover Art
  • Roger Glover : Cover Design
  • Shephard Sherbell : Photography
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