I have been sailing across the oceans
flying across the blue sky
Without never finding the answer
the answer to the question why
just when you think you reach it, it's gone

Chasing Shadows, Chasing shadows
Chasing Shadows, all your life
You're Chasing Shadows, Chasing Shadows
Chasing Shadows, all your life

Harder you try to fix things in your life
Faster you know it's in vain
Searching for loving from strangest places
Nothing is left but the pain

Just when you think you're reaching it, it's gone
Chasing Shadows, Chasing shadows
Chasing Shadows, all your life
You're Chasing Shadows, Chasing Shadows
Chasing Shadows, all your life

Chasing Shadows, Chasing Shadows
Chasing Shadows, all your life
You're Chasing Shadows, Chasing Shadows
Chasing Shadows, all your life
You're Chasing Shadows, Chasing Shadows
Chasing Shadows, all your life
You're Chasing Shadows, Chasing Shadows
Chasing Shadows, all your life

(Lord/Paice)

An original idea of ian's, who is heard playing drums, timbales, maracas and cowbell. Jon is playing claves. The percussion instruments were tracked on afterwards of course. The song is about one of jon's nightmares. Nicky's bass line is a gas.
Jon Lord said this about the song in April 1996:
The song was something to do with a nightmare I'd had and the lyrics as I wrote them were:

Chasing shadows, over my walls
with myself hardly sleeping
Dwarfs and giants, twenty feet tall
fill the room with their creeping

Sounds of breathing sharpen my ears
then they fade into nothing
Someone's laughter out in the street
fills the night with their loving

I feel the ice in my head
Running its hands through my bed
Not even dreaming I seem to be dead
Colours of yellow and colours of red

All I'm asking some secret voice
is to lead me to darkness
I'm so tired, dawn never comes
I just hide in the shadows

Tried to carry ba myself
this heart of mine don't want no one else
My tears of emptiness
Cry out for you caress
I just can't hide this feeling inside of me
- so now I'm
Chasing shadows in the moonlight
Yes, I'm flying high across the sky
- you know I'm
Chasing shadows in the moonlight
Just to be with you tonight
Silent thougths that run through my mind
Keeps the magic burning inside
Still endless days grow cold
Without your love I'm sold
this secret feeling's still burning inside of me
Chasing shadows in the moonlight...

[Richter]

Catch the wind
I'm gonna fly away
No turning back
Forever starts today

I am searching for something
Something I've never found
I am bleeding
Still proceeding
Want you to be around

[Chorus:]
Queen of the light
Star shining bright
Blessed by the light of the moon
A chase with the wind to the gardens of sin
Take me away, I am coming

Chasing shadows

Turn the page
Don't waste your life away
The choice is yours
Don't waste another day

Are you looking for someone
Someone deep in your mind
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me?
Is it you I will find

Queen of the light
Star shining bright
Blessed by the light of the moon
A chase with the wind to the gardens of sin
Take me away, I am coming

Chasing shadows

Give me your light
To bring sun to the night
Make me whole again
Back in the sun
I am chasing the shadows away

Save me from the tears and rain
A taste of freedom from the pain
The choice to be the man I was before
And when the end of day is near
I'll never know if she apperas
Will you open the door

Queen of the light
Star shining bright
Blessed by the light of the moon
A chase with the wind to the gardens of sin
Take me away, I am coming

Chasing shadows

Give me your light
To bring sun to the night
Make me whole again
Back in the sun
I am chasing the shadows away

Chasing shadows