Porcupine Tree - Phase II lyrics

The LSD trip is a pilgrimage far
Out beyond your normal mind
Into that risky and revelatory territory
Which has been explored
For thousands of years by
Mystics and visionary philosophers

Well I never think that when I'm twenty-one
I'm twenty-one - I think of
Tomorrow or this minute
And hope there's a tomorrow
'cause I don't like what's
Going on in the world i'm scared of that
More than drugs i'm not afraid of them
I'm just i'm just scared you know?

We're told that perhaps a million Americans
Most of them young people
Have made the LSD experience part
Of their lives is
This a social menace and a cause for alarm?
I don't think so i see nothing less
Than the speedy evolution of a new
Indigenous religion

I'm just i'm just scared you know?
Everybody is pretty uptight

I'm just i'm just scaredyou know?

The LSD religionist knows that the temple
Of worship is the human body
That the shrine must
Be located, not in a public place, but
In the privacy of your own home
And that the congregation
Cannot extend beyond
Your family and your closest friends

And then the paintings on the
Walls were dripping you
Knowyou could see the paint
Coming down like this
Just like if somebody was hosing
It off at the
Top and all the paint was running down
Onto the floor and it was so prettythey were
Running like they were melting! It was groovy

It was like a it was like a massage
It was so it was so groovy
You can't believe
How groovy it wasn't just water hitting you
Taking a
Shower, soap and out you go, you know
Towel off it was just oh wow! You know it was
Like it was like it was like a caress you
Know kind of and you could
Really feel the hot and
The cold you could feel hot
"hot" and cold "cold"
You know and and each little drop that
Came out was a different one
You know it wasn't I don't think the
Water must mix inside it must come
Out hot and cold or something
'cos you could feel hot cold hot cold
All over you it was really groovy
I guess it was i guess the word for it is
Sensual you know just your body
Just oh! It grooved!

For psychedelics are stimulators of
Ideas and feelings
But generally these ideas and
Feelings would express
Themselves constructively rather than
Violently or destructively

If it were possible during a riot
To spray small doses of
LSD from a helicopter into the
Air people would soon quieten

Is this trip really necessary?