Trip Squad

I'm a tell you right now Stop this song and put on Vangelis, it's a nice ride or So you took some acid That's alright, you're good I been there myself many times And it's nice to hear somebody Who can talk That knows something about What's happening So I wanted to record this if you Or somebody else needed somebody Talking they could take time to sit back and listen And know It's just a temporary thing That was important to me Being in each minute I'm an old guy, nearly sixty Probably not too cool I've got a buddy Noam Chomsky Who's an old guy too I ask him about plots for science fiction stuff Mostly linguistic conundrums he's a Linguistics guy, really smart And so nice, he always answers me Whatever I ask, even listens to my songs So far he's appreciated all of them That was important to me Being in each minute Like a picture frame Remembering back It was like each moment was in a frame like a picture And changes the frame for a second each second replaces another frame And they all connect just like the real world Where all the moments lead to and back to each other moment In to and fro and behind, future and past meeting like, forever In the right now moment frame All connected in the trails like the ones where the frames are trails Like 12 of your hands one in front of all the rest Like an afterglow with each trail birthing other Trails evening up everything Then all the frames zoomed out all aligned That was cool, I don't know if you're there yet In your trip or if you're at the beginning when You're really high but totally aware Totally with it, where if someone was saying Peanut butter over and over You'd be like yeah it's funny sure it's funny But you knew they were just fucking with you Trying to throw you off or something You could see through the ruse like thin paper It's shadows That person saying peanut something is Not going to throw you off your game The fame or frame You shouldn't listen to rap One thing that was funny I remember Was the time you'd see stuff that wasn't there And you knew it wasn't there because three blinks And it goes away for a second or you can see through One sixteenth of the spaceship or whatever like just the middle And you know it isn't real, you know it's not like an invisible Camera from a different dimension or anything that Only becomes visible every once in awhile when you're high And you know I'm just F'ing with you right. Right This is just a time thing I'm not timing you, that's for eggs You time an egg. Like 3 minutes for a runny yolk Runny yolk the yellow part is the sun or it represents The sun a referent or is it a signifier it's a sign That says sun with color and roundness and height Yolkiness Ooh I've got a neat project If you crack an egg 12 inches from the table Like a kitchen table or one with bunnies, not knives And the yolk has to fall to the table Whatever table you choose So the egg yolk and yellow sunny side Has to fall from where you cracked it To the table you know gravity and stuff it always works It's scientific The egg innards are going to fall for certain But in order for them to fall 12 inches they have to fall 6 inches First, and they have to fall three inches before that. Before they fall three inches they have to fall 1.5 inches But before they do that they have to fall half that distance, like 3/4 of an inch And you could do this forever, it's forever math Because scientifically you can never ever get to the distance Which you can't divide it by half You could get to the size of an atom, and divide that space by half And as they say, go ad infinitum So space is impossible, right Wow, is that cool? I don't know, maybe What do I think. Maybe time is the same way, for an hour to go by it needs a half hour But before that 15 minutes, 7 minutes, 1/100th of a minute One trillionth of a minute ad infinitum So time and space impossible Science says add up all the frames And you get a whole number, the number one Take that Zeno, Take That Pascal I was on the trip squad at the 20th anniversary of Woodstock I had hitchhiked across the nation again Removing myself from my friends so I could Stay away from junk and all the other stuff even alcohol And I met some great people who got me a job At the medical tent working on the trip squad I got to see the bands periodically, Sawyer Brown And Melanie, Richie Havens, John Sebastian and a bunch of others And I was one of the trip squad, talking people down who Got on a bad trip, I'm good at that, even clean That's rare, most people tripping don't want a straight person But I'm like that wavelength burnt out I guess a little maybe And I won't talk about that festival anymore So what really happened to Michael Jackson do you think Anyway just messing with you didn't mean any of it after the egg thing So don't concentrate on a third eye or anything Just stay mellow If something big happens there's a 90 percent chance it's not really happening So walk calmly to a place where you're safe and trust the people Who look worried. I hope nothing big happens and you have a great night And morning. It's not going to last more than 10 hours, and that Might seem like a long time but it's not really It's going to be alright, quiet is good most of the time John Lennon is good to listen to Elliott Smith, Roger Eno's Between Tides might be the Best to listen to if you can find it I might not see you because I can't leave the frames I'm in I can't see past these walls in 2022 But I want you to know that I care about you I really do There's so much wrong with people these days But there's one thing I can count on I love my fans They're a mess, for real, but I love my fans And if you've stuck with this song this long Then I consider you a fan And I love you, no matter who you are you mean everything To me, right now where you are and where I am These trails stretch out to one another I love you Thanks for being there and thanks for being here Before I go relax and let me give you a kind vision So like, eyes open or closed, let's say open so you don't get distracted By the closed creations You're at a beach, in a modest but comfortable bamboo shack The colors of light brown for bamboo, a wall of small brown cylinder husks Light brown sand of your feet and aqua foam color of the water Blue sky and salty breeze gentle on your bare chest, just you and me Eyes closed enjoying the salt and breeze, lets live here for a few seconds Only thinking of our being here right now And this is where I leave you loving who you are and how you are I love you