White Rabbit
- by Grace
Slick
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low (1)
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy (2) dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!" (3)
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head" (4)
One of my favorite songs from the '60s. I turn up the radio whenever it comes on, and it gives me chills. Don't really know why. Never used drugs (hardly) and do not advocate their use. Maybe the Lewis Carrol like references; the mention of chess, which I was once obcessed with; maybe the whole crazy psychadelic / hippie culture that made us feel superior "back in the day."
The lyrics on different sites also seem to vary. Odd, since this was a "top ten" song and I assume they were published. Maybe Grace sang it different ways at different times. That would not surprise me.
Here is how I remember/heard these lyrics, (where differently than above)
(1) slo-oow
(2) softly
(3) off her head
(4) "tea for the hatter"
JUST JOKING on (4). A wonderful story I heard, is that an LA radio station wanted to ban this song for the lyrics "feed your head" which appearently
advocated the use of illegal drugs.
In an interview, Grace Slick, with a straight face, claimed that the (hard to hear clearly) lyrics were "Tea for the Hatter." The station bought it. Don't know if this is true or a legend, but a wonderful story.
(Of course, BM65 was probably the interviewer
, or knows the truth. :wink:
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche