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Safe In My Garden Lyrics
Safe in my garden,
An ancient flower blooms.
And the scent from its nature
Slowly squares my room;
And its perfume being such
that it's causing me to swoon.
Could it be we were hot-wired?
(Safe in my garden, an ancient flower blooms...)
Late one night; we're very tired.
They stole our minds and thought we'd never know it.
(And the scent from its nature slowly squares my room...)
With a bottle in each hand; too late to try to understand.
We don't care where it lands; we just throw it.
Somebody take us away...
Somebody take us away...
Safe in my garden,
(Could it be we were hot-wired; late one night we're very tired...)
An ancient flower blooms.
(They stole our minds and thought we'd never know it...)
And the scent from its nature
(With a bottle in each hand; too late to try to understand...)
Slowly squares my room.
(We don't care where it lands
We just throw it...)
(Somebody take us away...)
And its perfume being such
That it's causing me to swoon.
When you go out in the street,
So many hassles with the heat;
No one there can fill your desire.
Cops out with the megaphones,
Telling people stay inside their home.
Man, can they see the world's on fire?
Somebody take us away... take us away...
Safe in our garden,
An ancient flower blooms.
And the scent from its nature...
(Cops out with the megaphones;
Tellin' people stay inside their homes.)
Man, the world's on fire.)
Slowly squares my room.
Take us away... take us away...
An ancient flower blooms.
And the scent from its nature
Slowly squares my room;
And its perfume being such
that it's causing me to swoon.
Could it be we were hot-wired?
(Safe in my garden, an ancient flower blooms...)
Late one night; we're very tired.
They stole our minds and thought we'd never know it.
(And the scent from its nature slowly squares my room...)
With a bottle in each hand; too late to try to understand.
We don't care where it lands; we just throw it.
Somebody take us away...
(Could it be we were hot-wired; late one night we're very tired...)
An ancient flower blooms.
(They stole our minds and thought we'd never know it...)
And the scent from its nature
(With a bottle in each hand; too late to try to understand...)
Slowly squares my room.
(We don't care where it lands
We just throw it...)
And its perfume being such
That it's causing me to swoon.
So many hassles with the heat;
No one there can fill your desire.
Cops out with the megaphones,
Telling people stay inside their home.
Man, can they see the world's on fire?
An ancient flower blooms.
And the scent from its nature...
(Cops out with the megaphones;
Tellin' people stay inside their homes.)
Man, the world's on fire.)
Slowly squares my room.
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Beautiful is the only way to describe this song, absolutely beautiful!
The genius of the song lies in its depth. At first it sound like an old style ballard while underneath there's a menacing undercurrent of violence and chaos.
It makes me relate to my own experiences of smoking pot and hiding away from the world with my friends, cocooned in a heavenly fug of weed, pizza, video games, dvd's, tv & above all cool music. It can seem that the world is going mad while we enjoy endless nights of bliss.
It's not so hard to imagine the Mamas & Papas in a similar scenario. Take away the mod cons and add the the hippie ideology and political chaos of the late sixties and you've got a very similar picture.
I know the M + P's loved the reefer watched TV endlessly and the references to the 'ancient flower' , 'scent from its nature' and 'causing me to swoon' make me think of weed.
Whether it is or isn't doesn't matter but I love this song and it means a lot to me.
I think this is a leftist protest song about the political chaos in the late 60's (Vietnam War was specially relevant in the US) and the sense that while Americans were safe in their homes the world was burning on fire. "Cops say people stay inside their homes" is a clear reference to the street movements of students in protests against war.
@Takeusaway The Weather Underground was all the rage in those days and the band was making a political statement in favor of domestic peace and non confrontation. It might still be a valid debate now in light of how much more militaristic this society has become notwithstanding that horrendous illegal war in Vietnam.
@Takeusaway The Weather Underground was all the rage in those days and the band was making a political statement in favor of domestic peace and non confrontation. It might still be a valid debate now in light of how much more militaristic this society has become notwithstanding that horrendous illegal war in Vietnam.
@Takeusaway pretty sure the song is about escaping conflict in the world. The song was released in 1968 the same year MLK and RFK were killed. That decade had seen the killings of Medgar Evers, JFK, Malcolm X, amongst others. There were greater conflict happening domestically the 60s had more going on. It’s a really good song, I never thought of aversion to violence as destruction as “leftist protest”
@Takeusaway pretty sure the song is about escaping conflict in the world. The song was released in 1968 the same year MLK and RFK were killed. That decade had seen the killings of Medgar Evers, JFK, Malcolm X, amongst others. There were greater conflict happening domestically the 60s had more going on. It’s a really good song, I never thought of aversion to violence as destruction as “leftist protest”