Did they ever really take effect
Everyone was on drugs up in that weird cabin
The locals called it the neon headlamp
Cause most nights it's so lit up, looks like an old mining headlamp in the dark
They'd espouse readily to those who'd listen
Hell, the whole damn town was fanatical about that funkified, lit up, livin' place
I stayed for a few days in town
Never saw the cabin
It seemed like nobody'd ever really been to the cabin
They'd approach it, even break up a bender that had gotten a bit too loud
But they never went
They never voluntarily drove, walked, biked, or so much as dreamed of going to the cabin
They talked for hours about the thing
But not a single one of those people in the shadow of the mountain
Could bring themselves to conjure a fruitcake, pumpkin pie, chicken salad, or some other neighborly gift to welcome the headlamp dwellers
Well, once a year the druggies would make their way down the mountain with long beards, dirty eyes, scratched tongues, and unsteady breath
And the people absolutely couldn't stand it
They were all into their own thing
Everyone ignored the coming of the headlamp
Beaming down light into that bleak town
A psychedelic umbrella
A psychedelic umbrella
What an odd lookin' fella
A psychedelic umbrella
And the rain
It screams
To me
Altered perception, now I'm staring
Altered perception, now I'm staring
Walls a'moving and a'breathing
Altered perception, now I'm staring
And the world
Is alive
To me
Yeah
Send my mind down the river
Send my mind down the river
My muscles tense and quiver
Send my mind down the river
And this world
Flies away
From me
It's starting again
It's starting again
It's starting again
It's starting again
Let yourself be fulfilled by the waves reverberating in your soul
I always wanted to know you
But you didn't want to know me
So I took my harmonica upon the hill and I played it
Oh I played it
And you complimented me
Yeah yeah
And you were here for no one but yourself
And you didn't seem to ask my name
You didn't care
You left it all inside
Strung up like a hound
I did not know you had left me
And yet your soul had utterly left my side