Best song about hallucinogenic drugs?

Try Crosby, Stills and Nash Cathedral from 1977. It's about taking acid while travelling to Winchester Cathedral from Stonehenge, and then flying over the altar. Unimpeachable.

purple haze...

25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago

Waiting for the break of day
Searching for something to say
Flashing lights against the sky
Giving up I close my eyes
Sitting cross-legged on the floor
Twenty-five or six to four

Staring blindly into space
Getting up to splash my face
Wanting just to stay awake
Wond'ring how much I can take
Should I try to do some more
Twenty-five or six to four

Feeling like I ought to sleep
Spinning room is sinking deep
Waiting for the break of day
Searching for something to say
Twenty-five or six to four
Twenty-five or six to four

For description, "Mister Tambourine Man" by Dylan, especially these verses:

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin' swingin' madly across the sun
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

_____________________

I love that last verse.

For capturing the feel of it, Lennon's stuff on "Revolver," such as "She Said, She Said" or "Tomorrow Never Knows." There's a good story about how "She Said . . . " was written.

The Cure, "Close to Me" is an old favorite.

the entire album Umma Gumma by Pink Floyd... trust me on this one.

Schizoid Puppeteer by Cathedral

"The pixies and the goblins are supping on mushroom tea"

Anything J Spaceman has ever written.

Sounds of Science - Beastie Boys

Moody Blues "Legend of a Mind" (aka Timothy Leary's dead.)
Amboy Dukes "Journey to the Center of the Mind"

"trippin on XTC" by Green Jelly
"purple pills" by D-12

Why I Cry - Magnetic Fields

Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

goddamnit!

Because I Got High - Afroman

The String Cheese Incident - Texas

Me and my friends went to Dixieland,
We drove a big RV
With a cabinet full of mushrooms

And a cooler full of beer
It was springtime in the mountains
When we headed out of town
The peaks were white, the sky was blue
And the sun was beatin’ down
We were rolling down the highway

Just having a little fun
You sure can drink a lot of beer
Underneath that Texas sun
So, I pulled into a liquor store
That’s where the trouble all began
‘Cause I ran into their awning
and had a run-in with the man

Get me out of this small time Texas town
‘Cause I don’t want to be stuck in jail
when the sun goes down
You can’t bust me, ‘cause you don’t know what you found.

Well I tried to talk to the girl inside
I even offered her some cash
But she wouldn’t listen she was callin’ the cops
Because her gutter had been smashed
Next thing I knew when I walked outside
There were police all around
Askin’ who was the driver of the vehicle?
Can I see your license? Whatca doin’ in our town?

We were sitting on the steps of the liquor store
Trying not to look too scared
The cops were searching the RV and I was
Thinking sometimes life just isn’t fair
They opened up that cabinet
And they found our little stash
But they didn’t know what it was and let us go
Minus eighty bucks in cash.

(Sorry so long)

Drugstore Cowboy - Justin Warfield

"Cuz I'm a drugstore cowboy out on the town
Take ya for your drugs or we're beatin ya down
Robbin pharmacies and we're lookin for the acid
Ya got a tab, pass it, if not you'll getcha ass kicked"

I like born cross eyed. i wont' say who its by..i might get made fun of.



[Edited on May 17, 2004 by Quinn]

edited to say also that the first time i heard Primus I was high on a little lsd and it blew my mind.

[Edited on May 17, 2004 by Quinn]

Word.

Marshall Jefferson's "Mushrooms [Salt City Orchestra Out There Mix]"

the version can be found on Faithless' "Back To Mine" disk.


Mushrooms

I Was with my girlfriend
This is down in Florida
She took me to this place
It had al kind of things growing
She gave me something
It was a mushroom
She said "eat it", she said.
A mushroom, what is that?
She said "eat it".
I don't think nuthin' of it
She's kind of a wild girl
I don't think she was that wild
So I, I ate the mushroom
And I said "It doesn't taste like much"
She said "Wait a minute"
So I waited a minute
I waited a few minutes
- Filter -
And the next thing I know, I was walking on clouds
There were beautiful clouds
And my girlfriend was talking to me
While I was walking on the clouds
And everything felt beautiful
I almost felt like I didn't have any feet,
No floor under me
It was beautiful
We looked in each other eyes.
On top of these clouds
And we were talking with each other
With our mouths wide open
And all of a sudden
She let me go
But I didn't fall,
I floated, but I was far away from her.
Until the next thing I know she wasn't there,
Knows by myself.
And I was on grass again
Very soft gras
I walked to the grass



[Edited on May 18, 2004 by awhitepony]

Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit maybe?

[Edited on May 17, 2004 by ThisAintNoPicnic]

It's not about drugs! It was about a painting that Julian brought home from school.

[Edited on May 18, 2004 by handle]

I was gonna say that...or "Tomorrow Never Knows."

"twisting doorknob" by the weathermen

jimmyjoe snark 3

coil's "windowpane"