Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Phase II, artist - Porcupine Tree. Date of issue: 06.01.2000
Song language: English
Phase II |
| The LSD trip is a pilgrimage far out beyond your normal mind, into that risky |
| and revelatory territory which has been explored for thousands of years by |
| mystics and visionary philosophers |
| Well I never think that when I’m twenty-one, I’m twenty-one — I think of |
| tomorrow or this minute… |
| And hope there’s a tomorrow, 'cause I don’t like what’s going on in the world. |
| I’m scared of that, more than drugs. |
| I’m not afraid of them… |
| I’m just… I’m just scared you know? |
| We’re told that perhaps a million Americans, most of them young people, |
| have made the LSD experience part of their lives. |
| Is this a social menace and |
| a cause for alarm? |
| I don’t think so. |
| I see nothing less than the speedy evolution of a new, |
| indigenous religion |
| I’m just… I’m just scared you know? |
| Everybody is… pretty uptight |
| I’m just… I’m just scared… you know? |
| The LSD religionist knows; |
| that the temple of worship is the human body, |
| that the shrine must be located, not in a public place, but in the privacy of |
| your own home, and that the congregation cannot extend beyond your family and |
| your closest friends… |
| …And then the paintings on the walls were dripping. |
| You know… |
| you could see the paint coming down like this, just like if somebody was hosing |
| it off at the top and all the paint was running down onto the floor. |
| And it was so pretty… they were running. |
| Like they were melting! |
| It was groovy… |
| It was like a… it was like a massage. |
| It was so… it was so groovy, |
| you can’t believe how groovy… it wasn’t just water hitting you, |
| taking a shower, soap and out you go, you know, towel off. |
| It was just… |
| oh wow! |
| You know it was like… it was like… it was like a caress. |
| You know kind of… and you could really feel the hot and the cold. |
| You could feel hot «hot» and cold «cold», you know and… and each little drop |
| that came out was a different one, you know… it wasn’t… I don’t think the |
| water must mix inside. |
| It must come out hot and cold or something, |
| 'cos you could feel hot cold hot cold all over you. |
| It was really groovy |
| I guess… it was… I guess the word for it is sensual… you know just… |
| your body just oh! |
| It grooved! |
| For psychedelics are stimulators of ideas and feelings, but generally these |
| ideas and feelings would express themselves constructively rather than |
| violently or destructively |
| If it were possible during a riot to spray small doses of LSD from a helicopter |
| into the air… People would soon quieten… |
| Is this trip really necessary… |