Psychedelic Umbrella

Did they ever really take effect Everyone was on drugs up in that weird cabin The locals called it the neon headlamp Cause most nights it's so lit up, looks like an old mining headlamp in the dark They'd espouse readily to those who'd listen Hell, the whole damn town was fanatical about that funkified, lit up, livin' place I stayed for a few days in town Never saw the cabin It seemed like nobody'd ever really been to the cabin They'd approach it, even break up a bender that had gotten a bit too loud But they never went They never voluntarily drove, walked, biked, or so much as dreamed of going to the cabin They talked for hours about the thing But not a single one of those people in the shadow of the mountain Could bring themselves to conjure a fruitcake, pumpkin pie, chicken salad, or some other neighborly gift to welcome the headlamp dwellers Well, once a year the druggies would make their way down the mountain with long beards, dirty eyes, scratched tongues, and unsteady breath And the people absolutely couldn't stand it They were all into their own thing Everyone ignored the coming of the headlamp Beaming down light into that bleak town A psychedelic umbrella A psychedelic umbrella What an odd lookin' fella A psychedelic umbrella And the rain It screams To me Altered perception, now I'm staring Altered perception, now I'm staring Walls a'moving and a'breathing Altered perception, now I'm staring And the world Is alive To me Yeah Send my mind down the river Send my mind down the river My muscles tense and quiver Send my mind down the river And this world Flies away From me It's starting again It's starting again It's starting again It's starting again Let yourself be fulfilled by the waves reverberating in your soul I always wanted to know you But you didn't want to know me So I took my harmonica upon the hill and I played it Oh I played it And you complimented me Yeah yeah And you were here for no one but yourself And you didn't seem to ask my name You didn't care You left it all inside Strung up like a hound I did not know you had left me And yet your soul had utterly left my side