Jeffrey Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane lyrics

It was a night in July, I think six years ago
Why did I eat the acid? I don't know
I wasn't thinking and I wasn't scared
Why did I eat the acid? I wasn't prepared
The last time I did acid I went insane

I was hanging with some
Friends just getting loaded
When all of a sudden my mind exploded
I had a flash that I was
Gay and I got paranoid
I was sitting on the floor
Listening to Pink Floyd
The last time I did acid I went insane

And I was drawing crazy pictures
And before I was done
The pictures started pulsing like
An alien lung
And I said "oh my god this is just begun"
And it was twelve more hours
Before I was done
We were up on the rooftop and
I'll tell you the truth
I was convinced I'd already fallen
Off of the roof
And these weird metal things rolling
Around in outta space
Were teleporting me from place to place
The last time I did acid I went insane

So we ran back downstairs where
It was better to be but I was trapped in
Spiral staircase infinity
And when we got to the
Door I couldn't go inside
Cos it was the gates of heaven and I had died
The last time I did acid I went insane

And this kid named Graham he punched
A cat in the head he could read my thoughts
That's what he said
And he described what it was like
But I didn't believe it
Like lifting a rug and
Seeing stars beneath it ooo ooo

And the first rule of tripping was
Don't be with people you don't trust
The second rule of LSD
The rooftop is not a good place to be
The third rule is to be prepared
The fourth rule is to not get scared
The fifth rule is to stay serene
Turn off your mind and float downstream
The sixth rule's have a good friend at hand
The seventh rule, I hope that you understand
Is not to look too deep into your soul
Or you might find a hideous, hopeless hole
Of hatred, hunger, infinite, idiot
Mindless, meaningless, nothingness
Nothingness
Nothingness, nothingness, nothingness
Nothingness
Nothingness, nothingness, nothingness
Nothingness nothingness
And that's what I did

And every aspect of life that I selected
Was instantly and brutally dissected
I saw the horrible emptiness within
The reasons behind everything
And it was at that moment that I went insane
Cos I figured why bother doing anything again
I didn't understand my thoughts
Revealing themselves to be
The truth behind everything I'd
Ever wanted and believed
Revealed it'self to be unwinding

I Stood up i brushed
My head i turned
To my right all in my eye
And I said

There are things which we feel
To be so terrifically true
That what were all but madness
For any good man in his own proper character
To utter or even hint of them

I've just discovered the meaning of life
I've just discovered the meaning of life
I've just discovered the meaning of life
I've just discovered the meaning of life