Lyric discussion by bluesfromanairplane 

Cover art for Lather lyrics by Jefferson Airplane

defenatly about some one who does not want to grow up i think Grace wrote it for one guy cuz he was like 30 still hanging out with the young crowd

He was "hanging out with the young crowd" because he was Spencer Dryden and was the drummer in the band as well as Grace's boyfriend at the time (Grace herself was pushing 30 at the time, born in 1939). Many consider Dryden, (who was a serious jazz musician in L.A. (and Charlie Chaplin's nephew) before crossing over to rock/pop (at first with the L.A. band the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, a folk/psych pop band with a woman with a voice as beautiful and soaring as Grace's (Sandi Robison) which never achieved the commercial success of JA/JS/Starship but was arguably just as...