This rather odd lyric:
Looking through crystal spectacles
I can see I had your fun.
Looking through crystal spectacles
I can see I had your fun.
Rebelling against society,
Such a tiny speculating whether to be a hip or
Skip along quite merrily.
Through all levels you’ve been changing
Elevator in the brain hotel
Broken down a-just as well-a
Sounds drug-indced? anybody know what he was talking about?
Wikipedia not good enough for you?
I’ve never heard the song and it took me about 15 seconds to track that down.
Oh, maaaan, you don’t understand thaaaat, maaan? I mean, if you can’t grok it, I can’t really, like, put it into words, maaaan, but I think you don’t take enough acid, brother…
Peace!
This. Like everything else Donovan wrote. Some of them were ok tunes, though, but don’t take them as seriously as Donovan himself took them.
Well, if the OP is hoping for a breakdown of the specific quoted lyrics, rather than a two sentence summary of what the song is broadly about then I suppose Wikipedia is in fact not good enough.
I am however very impressed that you took the time to knock the OP’s luch tray out of his hands and I certainly hope to get to sit at your lunch table with the cool kids.
In fact, that Wiki article doesn’t really say very much. The song is Donovan talking to his friend about the friend’s personal development and how he relates to the cultural changes that were happening in the '60s. Note the line about choosing “whether to be hip or skip along quite merrily.” Donovan sometimes displayed a surprisingly jaundiced view of the hippie movement–another song of the same era has Donovan addressing a friend with “Hi, it’s been a long time/You’re looking down/Dragged as any hippie should be/In old hippie town.” And yes, “Looking through crystal spectacles/I can see I had your fun” certainly sounds like he’s talking about dropping acid.
My god, but he did get the hippy thing spectacularly right sometimes:
Sunny Goodge St
*The magician, he sparkles in satin and velvet,
You gaze at his splendour with eyes you’ve not used yet.
I tell you his name is Love, Love, Love.
“My, my”, they sigh,
“My, my”, they sigh.
“My, my” they sigh*
Dave’s not here!
Dave is everywhere, man…
I love Donovan’s popular tunes, hadn’t heard of this one, looked it up, hated it and was surprised that Jimmy Page had anything to do with it.
He was a hired gun back in those days, so it need not have had anything to do with an appreciation for Donovan’s oeuvre ( though I have no idea - he might have been a fan, many were ). Donovan actually had a number of ace session players on his 1960’s stuff.