The Doors – Light My Fire

Rakkautta, intohimoa ja huumeita. Olisikohan siinä tämä klassikko pähkinäkuoressa?

”You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn’t get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire”

Country Joe and the Fish – Bass Strings

Country Joe and the Fishin debyyttialbumilla on tämä oivallisesti trippailua ja mielen laajentamista kuvaava biisi.

”Hey partner, won’t you pass that reefer round,
My world is spinnin’, yeah, just got to slow it down.
Oh, yes you know I’ve sure got to slow it down.
Get so high this time that you know
I’ll never come down, I’ll never come down.
I believe I’ll go out to the seashore, let the waves wash my mind,
Open up my head now just to see what I can find.
Oh, yes you know I’m gonna see what I can find,
Just one more trip now, you know I’ll stay high
All the time, all the time.”

The Fugs – New Amphetamine Shriek

Biisissä lauletaan amfetamiinista ja sanotaan sen olevan suorastaan vaaratonta… melkein yhtä vaaratonta kuin kokaiinin.

”I don’t have a bedtime,
I don’t need to cum,
For I have become an amphetamine bum.

If you don’t like sleeping and don’t want to screw,
Then you should take lots of amphetamine too!”

Traffic – Hole in My Shoe

”I looked to the sky
Where an elephant’s eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)”

Melkoiselta trippailulta kuulostaa.

Small Faces – Here Come the Nice

”Here come the nice (It’s understood)
Here come the nice (He makes me feel so good)
I’d be just like him (If only could)
You know you should”

Biisin on sanottu viittaavaan Howard Marksiin (aka. Mr. Nice), joka oli tunnettu kannabiksen puolestapuhuja ja myi pilveä monille bändeille, mukaanlukien Small Faces.

Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit

Tämä Jefferson Airplanen ”Surrealistic Pillow” -levyn laulu on yksi kuuluisimpia huumeista kertovia sanoituksia. Kuvaus LSD-tripistä Liisa Ihmemaassa -tarinan henkeen. Laulun alkaa erinomaisen hienolla säkeistöllä:

”One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all”