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I'm In Touch With Your World Lyrics
You can tuck it on the inside
You can throw it on the floor
You can wave it on the outside
Like you never did before
You get the diplomatic treatment
You get the force-fed future
Get the funk after death
Get the wisenheimer brainstorm
(I’m in touch with your world)
So don’t you try to hide it
(I’m in touch with your world)
And nobody’s gonna buy it
It’s such a lovely way to go
It’s such a lovely way to go
I been lying on your feathers
You keep talkin’ about the weather
I’m a psilocybin pony
You’re a flick fandango phoney
It’s a sticky contradiction
It’s a thing you call creation
Everything is science fiction
And I ought to know
(I’m in touch with your world)
So don’t you try to hide it
(I’m in touch with your world)
And nobody’s gonna buy it
It’s such a lovely way to go
It’s such a lovely way to go-uh-o-o-o
(I’m in touch with your world)
(I’m in touch with your world)
(I’m in touch with your world)
(I’m in touch with your world)
You can throw it on the floor
You can wave it on the outside
Like you never did before
You get the diplomatic treatment
You get the force-fed future
Get the funk after death
Get the wisenheimer brainstorm
So don’t you try to hide it
(I’m in touch with your world)
And nobody’s gonna buy it
It’s such a lovely way to go
It’s such a lovely way to go
You keep talkin’ about the weather
I’m a psilocybin pony
You’re a flick fandango phoney
It’s a sticky contradiction
It’s a thing you call creation
Everything is science fiction
And I ought to know
So don’t you try to hide it
(I’m in touch with your world)
And nobody’s gonna buy it
It’s such a lovely way to go
It’s such a lovely way to go-uh-o-o-o
(I’m in touch with your world)
(I’m in touch with your world)
(I’m in touch with your world)
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Ric is sardonically describing a cross-dresser at a club, acknowledging that Ric is weird enough to recognize the desperation of the other guy. "I'm in touch with your world", but "nobody's gonna buy it".
I see it as simply a fun little headf*** from the brilliant Ric Ocasek. Psilocybin, aka magic mushrooms, is a powerful hallucinogen, and if you've ever done that or LSD, you may have experience how the drugs have a way of either being your own personal circus show, or the slaver of your consciousness; sometimes both at the same time, as you experience indescribable head-trip. By design, it's an illusion instilled into your brain and being; thus the "I'm a psilocybin pony" line. But at the same time, it's just a show, an illusion to our known reality, thus, the response is the insightful take on the experience: 'You're a flick fandango phony". You're full of malarkie. Take that.
I see this song as a take on a psychedelic trip that is far removed from the hippie groove, but no less powerful or less meaningful. It is, as I see it, wizard Ric's take on the psychedelic realm beyond mere being ... here in reality, where awesome Cars songs exist.