Armenia City in the Sky

LSD. Specifically, the nastier sides of LSD, such as confusion ("If you're troubled", "Freak out!") and paranoia ("Rumours floating in your head...etc").

Funny coincidence most likely: On top of the highest point ("city in the sky") in San Francisco (obviously a very important city in the history of psychedelic music) is a monument to the victims of the Armenian genocide. It's a big cross visible from all over the city on the rare clear day.

Oops. It's ar/ME/nia. You know what I mean. Well maybe you do.

OK. A fact and a hypothesis Fact Armenia is a city in Columbia located at 1551 m. Look at the photo on wikipedia and "City in the Sky" makes sense. And what is Columbia infamous for…? So forget the middle east, San Francisco and Armenian genocide. Hypothesis What if the lyric is "The C is brown" Quote from "Drugs: A users guide" "The product is cocaine base, the low grade brown cocaine "pasta" consumed in South American slums" And "The sky is glass" Search a bit on the web Drug slang "blue sky blond" High potency marijuana from columbia "crystal glass" Crystal shards of methamphetamine "getting glassed" To snort methamphetamine "glass" Heroin; amphetamine; hypodermic needle; methamphetamine "l. a. glass" Smokable methamphetamine And put "sky glass marijuana" into google and you'll get the picture. His lyric is playing with evocative words in an ambiguous way. To round off. This is a great album. All of it. If anyone asked me "which song do you wish you had written?" it would be "Sunrise"

Definitely the most psychedelic song that The Who ever recorded. One of my favorites from The Who Sell Out.

Definitely the most psychedelic song that The Who ever recorded. One of my favorites from The Who Sell Out.

this is definitely my favorite song on The Who Sell Out. it's a great record

this is great song but i like in the hall of the mountain king better

This song was written by one of Pete's friends for the group. Thought I should mention it. Anyhow, it is pretty psychedelic.

i know..what the hell does it have to do with armenia