I don't believe the song was written about drugs (psychedelic or otherwise). I think that it was written as simply a bluesy love song, no more than it appears to be. However, I found out about this song because my best friend and I were talking about Pink Floyd, and she mentioned this song, and I said, "That title seems like it predicts something..." ("Lucy" is sort of a codeword we have for LSD.) She thought it was funny and so did I.
So later I decided to read the lyrics, just to see if they could be interpreted as having some sort of drugs meaning. (Yes, I am in the habit of taking songs and interpreting them to have other meanings that they obviously didn't. Not always about drugs; just things that they suggest to me.) Sure enough, they did. My belief regarding the meaning of songs is that if you want to think a song is about something, then that's what it's about to you. If this song makes you think more of drugs than love, then that's what it means to you. If it doesn't particularly make you think of drugs and you think it is what it seems to be, then that's equally correct. I think that the meaning of songs is pretty much subjective, and that whatever you think of when you hear a song or read its lyrics, that's what it means to you.
I don't believe the song was written about drugs (psychedelic or otherwise). I think that it was written as simply a bluesy love song, no more than it appears to be. However, I found out about this song because my best friend and I were talking about Pink Floyd, and she mentioned this song, and I said, "That title seems like it predicts something..." ("Lucy" is sort of a codeword we have for LSD.) She thought it was funny and so did I.
So later I decided to read the lyrics, just to see if they could be interpreted as having some sort of drugs meaning. (Yes, I am in the habit of taking songs and interpreting them to have other meanings that they obviously didn't. Not always about drugs; just things that they suggest to me.) Sure enough, they did. My belief regarding the meaning of songs is that if you want to think a song is about something, then that's what it's about to you. If this song makes you think more of drugs than love, then that's what it means to you. If it doesn't particularly make you think of drugs and you think it is what it seems to be, then that's equally correct. I think that the meaning of songs is pretty much subjective, and that whatever you think of when you hear a song or read its lyrics, that's what it means to you.