Lyrics Voyage 34: Phase Two - Porcupine Tree

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?