Drugs influence
Lyrics written under or about psychedelic drug experiences - altered perception, expanded consciousness, hallucinatory imagery
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Songs(18)
Day Tripper
Lennon: 'a drug song'
Rain
Lennon connected the song to early LSD experience
She Said She Said
LSD-shaped dissociative imagery
Tomorrow Never Knows
LSD-shaped imagery
Doctor Robert
Pill-and-injection culture of mid-60s
Love You To
LSD-era detachment per Harrison
Strawberry Fields Forever
LSD-era dissociative imagery
Penny Lane
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Psychedelic imagery (Lennon denied LSD link)
Fixing a Hole
Altered-consciousness imagery
Within You Without You
Composed in the wake of LSD experiences though message is post-drug
A Day in the Life
Psychedelic dream-shift, 'turn you on'
I Am the Walrus
LSD-era imagery, dream logic
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Opening lines from Lennon-Taylor LSD trip
It's All Too Much
LSD-inspired imagery
Come Together
Free-associative imagery
Across the Universe (Wildlife version)
Across the Universe
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