White Rabbit Lyrics

This song clearly uses Alice in wonderland as a METAPHOR do you people interpret everything you read literally? clearly missing the meaning, open your mind, see things for what they are, reality is subjective so everyone has there opinions but trust me this song is not about a cartoon

To whomever thinks this song is not about the use of psychedelics and opening your mind...please stop. It absolutely is and if you have never done shrooms or lsd or anything like that you would not understand. And that's fine, but don't try to make the song fit into what you;re comfortable with it fitting in to. Let this one go, it's about freeing your mind...on lsd.

There is an oblivious theme for this song: Alice in Wonderland! If you can't figure that out, your really need to ge to school.

The other Theme is drugs which is also oblivious. 'Take a pill that makes you larger, and one makes you small' not exact lyrics but you get my point.

Anyway, for all you hater people out there who don't give a damn about this song, go away! Who asked for your opinion?

Long live and forever behold, Alice in wonderland! My she forever thrive in history!!!!

my heart <3 if you run, you run from yourself, if you hurt me, you hurt yourself, we must learn.. so we can come to the next step.., you.. trust your soul, your soul knows, your mind has to follow the soul and must understand it, give it time.

I always understood the song as "Open your mind". An alternative point of general view back in the 60s.
Since the drugs actually prove that "there's more than you can see with, compared to without at all."

And taking it a bit forward it could talk about social taboos and that maybe you should judge them for yourself, instead of following the blindly.

For example "drugs": The taboo states= bad for you. This song states "Maybe drugs are bad, but since I can communicate with alice in wonderland how bad can that be?"

Meaning at the end: "Be cautious, but don't lose what life has to offer"

I Love this song!

This song has a much deeper meaning because of these lyrics. The song isn't about drug use, but rather psychosis/dissociation, or becoming insane and detaching from the real world.

Logic is what it is; a rational system to describe surroundings.

Proportion represents a relationship between what is real and what is not real.

"Fallen sloppy dead" would imply that the two above concepts no longer exist. The singer can no longer tell the difference between what is real and not real. The fact that they've "fallen sloppy" would imply that the rational and irrational have managed to shatter their respective identities and converge into a "sloppy" combination of the two. This goes beyond what is real and not real, and creates something incomprehensible.

i like the song it differs from other genres songs i have heard

but lets stay real

the lyrics are childish they are about nothing as most lyrics from that time

i mean combination of alice dreams hypnose drugs
itsounds good for drugs users.... not for normal people those lyrics means nothing to me

and i wonder how this band got so much fans for so much years

but on the otherside back in 60 s there where just a band here and there all of them trown out of society

from michael jackson people some real love for singers and for the first time they werent outed of society

I have always loved this song,since listening to it as a teenager in the sixties. It always seemed exotic,listening in England, with the song being from the hippy culture of the West Coast of America. I think that possibly other reviewers are forgetting about the time in which it was written, and of course the culture. Drug references wouldn't have been considered so much of a matter for discussion,at the time, as they would've been just part of the culture. Having said that,Carrol's imagery, to the eyes of the latter half of the 20th century (and the start of the 21st) can easily appear to be the results of an acid trip, although in the days when written would more likely have been of fungal origin,if not,as is more likely,the result of a fertile imagination. The lyrics are obviously influenced by the Alice books but the song should be considered for what it is, a brilliant product of its time, beautifully crafted and produced, and still sounding fresh today, almost half a century later. On the matter of the,perceived, paedophile leanings of Lewis Carrol,it must be rembered that, at the time,it was quite common for a much older man to marry a very much younger woman.Carrol's undoubted love for Alice Liddell wouldn't have been unusual, but wouldn't have been acted upon until she reached marriagable age,if at all.Let's just enjoy the song. A friend's wife heard it for the first time at a christmas party,she wasn't even born when it was written.She loves it.Doesn't that say something?

1. Lewis Carroll wrote the book for a little girl, after making up a story for her one day to entertain her. The book was also meant to teach her about math as well though not 100% sure how to explain how here. He wasn't a pedophile by our idea of it, and he lived in a time where naked children was artistic and considered innocent and precious, to the mainstream at least.

2. The lyric is "Feed Your Head" but many people have said this already so no worries. Anyway. I personally think the drug wordplay in this song was just clever songwriting, more than likely if not definitely inspired by drugs, an inspired era, and a smart, artistic mind.

3. Drugs are incredible and drugs are terrible, and so much more and everything in between. Know your body, know your mind, know your law, know your drugs.

I love this song. It does what every single Alice in Wonderland movie does. It combines both of the books that Lewis Carrol wrote about Alice Liddel (who was in fact a real person).
In the first Alice novelshe fell down a rabit hole and ended up in Wonderland. But in the second book she goes through a looking glass and is NOT in wonderland. Most of the song is about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The only refferences to Alice Through the Looking Glass are the chess board and the White night. Niether of which is in the first book.
The only mistake is a very common one. Many people mistakenly call the Queen of Hearts the Red Queen. These two characters are completely different and seperate. The Queen of Hearts is only in the first book. The first novel having a "cards" theme to it's royalty. The Red Queen is only in the second novel, which is chess themed. Many adaptations of Alice in Wonderland make this error.

I was quite intrigued by the lyrics and like the music.

I disagree with Trae that it's at all about the 60's but more about that which possessed the 60's hippies in this country. Hallucinogens have been around since the earliest dynasties in Asia. It was only in the 60's that they were obtained by governments and analysed then synthesized in laboratories. Smoking opium was going on in Britain and Europe in the 1800's, I know that for a fact. Acting Out, first recognized in a 70's book, The Neurosis of Our Time, Acting Out, tells all about this ever present problem from the top heirarchies of our civilization to the lowest. Now one truly escapes it, some just make more of from it than others. It started in the garden of Eden with the fall of man and when sin enter the picture things got complicated so here we are. I remember my first PCP experience,scared the heck out of me. Took me years to connect with my was happening in that experience and what caused it. I did LSD in the early 70's before going to Baltimore, it was an enlightnening experience but I would never do it again unless it was under medical supervision.

I was quite intrigued by the lyrics and like the music.

I disagree with Trae that it's at all about the 60's but more about that which possessed the 60's hippies in this country. Hallucinogens have been around since the earliest dynasties in Asia. It was only in the 60's that they were obtained by governments and analysed then synthesized in laboratories. Smoking opium was going on in Britain and Europe in the 1800's, I know that for a fact. Acting Out, first recognized in a 70's book, The Neurosis of Our Time, Acting Out, tells all about this ever present problem from the top heirarchies of our civilization to the lowest. Now one truly escapes it, some just make more of from it than others.

To make meaning of texts, past or present, one might consider Hermeneutic philosophy for starters--it is the point you are all dancing about. Texts are written within the creator's horizon of interpretation--a metaphor for the TIME, PLACE, and LINGUISTIC tradition in which a particular text was written. To make a trustworthy interpretation of a text, one should consider the TIME, PLACE, and LANGUAGE in which it was written.

The allusions to Alice in Wonderland are not subliminal drug references, they are literal. The psychedelic movement of the sixties was a social rejection by the Hippies of their Leave it To Beaver type parents whose escape was alcohol. Meet the hubby at the door, June, with his slippers and a high ball, your hair perfectly done and in a house dress as if you had nothing to do all day but wait. That generation was numbing itself from the horrors of WWII and from the fact that a military industrial complex was slowly seizing control over Washington policy as Eisenhower warned on his way out. THe Beatniks used pot as a counter culture not to numb it self, but to AWAKE. The Hippies used LSD to TUNE IN to these realities, TURN ON people on the an awakening consciousness, and DROP OUT of that impetus. A COUNTER CULTURE seeking to awaken their doors of perception through psycho-tropic substances.

Trae, PhD and user of things that allow for greater insight if you just know where to look : )

This song was written to the parents about why we like drugs.when we were younger we were fed with all these storys that obv are trips or on drugs, FEED YOUR HEAD as in when your little they feed our head with these storys

“See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.... rrrrrrrrreal f**kin high on drugs.”
Quoting Bill Hicks