Hippie political stuff. The world is blue from outer space. If you take the big picture, take a step back, so far back you can't even see all the politics and war, it's blue. It's a new world - age of Aquarius and all that. Yay: the old things are passing away, and peace, love, and freedom are going to take us all to a new era of … of … peace and love, I guess. Oh, and freedom. Everyone helping one another. Oh, and 'open doors' is a reference to hallucinogens. Why not actually do it, why not actually step forward into this brave, new world, rather than stay mired in cynical defeatism? It's easier to try that to prove it can't be done, after all.
Then the soldiers bought back heroin addiction from the Vietnam war, and it all turned to sh*t. As Hunter S Tompson said: "With the right kind of eyes, you can see where the wave broke, and the tide pulled back". Some time in '73. But that was some ways in the future when this got written. This song was right in the middle of an age of optimism and hope.
Hippie political stuff. The world is blue from outer space. If you take the big picture, take a step back, so far back you can't even see all the politics and war, it's blue. It's a new world - age of Aquarius and all that. Yay: the old things are passing away, and peace, love, and freedom are going to take us all to a new era of … of … peace and love, I guess. Oh, and freedom. Everyone helping one another. Oh, and 'open doors' is a reference to hallucinogens. Why not actually do it, why not actually step forward into this brave, new world, rather than stay mired in cynical defeatism? It's easier to try that to prove it can't be done, after all.
Then the soldiers bought back heroin addiction from the Vietnam war, and it all turned to sh*t. As Hunter S Tompson said: "With the right kind of eyes, you can see where the wave broke, and the tide pulled back". Some time in '73. But that was some ways in the future when this got written. This song was right in the middle of an age of optimism and hope.
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