I Was On Acid, is a love song. It is about a love of nature, a love of religion, a love of science, a love of everything surrounding me.
When I was on psychedelics, I followed Timothy Leary's careful instructions to have people around you who you felt safe with. Those were friends. Friends who were present in my heart, even if they were not actually in the room with me.
So this song is about more than acid. It is about that powerful radiance you feel throughout your entire being, that lights you up when you experience something's grace. That something is often someone.
Further and further out you go, with the stream of bright light shooting out of your core. As you reach the irresistible point of no return, only one thing can persuade you to return to crude reality. That would be your core light that originates from that grace which is unique to this planet, this existence, this love.
The song was played at a party last Saturday night with musicians who had never heard it before.
I no longer am interested in synthetic drugs. But I Was On Acid remains for me a love song inspired by a lover's aura, which is compared to a tab that is only a millionth of a gram of matter.
