PSYCHEDELIC

PSYCHEDELIC There was a decade, it was the 60’s I’m sure When everyday things were just a little bit off As if there were rumblings in the earth’s core And when scripted lines gave way to improv There were plans afoot, some quite nefarious A Hippy time, with weedy substances to share And was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius Minds set free and wearing flowers in the hair Rainbow colours swirled to the sound of sitars Free love, at least it may have been for some And a coming of age of good electric guitars Whilst others just sat crosslegged acting dumb Psychedelia was a mind state and the fashion Radical changes working through the system And all things anti-establishment, the passion Rules got lost and older people missed them The time when all free expression took a lift We may look back at it with little veneration Not only tectonic plates that began to shift We still hear echoes of that Beat generation