Ian Gillan: "One Eye To Morocco" (2009)

* First Video:




* Second Video: Ian being interviewed at his home in Portugal prior to the release of his brilliant and latest new studio album.




One Eye To Morocco is a solo album by Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan. The album material was written during the gap of Deep Purple's 2008 world tour, in the USA. It was released on 6 March 2009 on Edel Records as CD, Limited Edition CD and Vinyl.

As Gillan himself tells, he was in the Jewish Quarter of Cracow listening to the related stories of Oscar Schindler when the voice faded - and then returned and somebody told him: 'Ah, Ian you have one eye to Morocco.' - It was Tommy Djiubinski. Ian didn't understand the meaning of this Polish idiom, until he was told the whole idiom: "To have one eye to Morocco and another to Caucasus". The idiom describes a cross-eyed, or wandering eye person. This idiom inspired Gillan to make another solo album, and the title for the album was set to "One Eye To Morocco."


- Lyrics:

I don't know where I'm going
I don't know what I'm doing
But it feels alright

I have one eye to Morocco
I only have to follow
Through the scented night

Conversation
Is fading away
The last thing
I heard you say
Was just a murmur
A distant blur
Your lips are moving
But I hear no words

All day
Sitting alone in my room
Waiting for no-one to call me
Lost in a dream of my own

I'm drawn by this obsession

With a tantalising vision
Of a swirling robe

I have one eye to Morocco
By the time I reach tomorrow
I'll be on that road

Sweet temptation
Draws me on
Gives me the strength
To cross my Rubicon
Past a point
Of no return
Ever onwards
As my bridges burn

All day
Sitting alone in my room
Waiting for no-one to call me
Lost in a dream of my own