Love to Know a bit more about the White Rabbit song. Alice in Wonderland?? I've been a bit taken by this song of late and at the age of 32 its a bit before my time. Or maybe I'm a a bit after its time!??!!! Any info would be Great!!! Talk to me!!!
2006-08-30 19:33:20 · 5 answers · asked by toolhead 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Okay. I got totally wasted once with Grace Slick, back in the days when we both did that sort of thing. It was just a party. But we ended up talking about a lot of weird stuff, like you do when you're messed up, and that song came up in conversation.
She told me that basically the song is about the fact that thoughout our childhoods, our parents are always encouraging us to believe in fairy tales, happy endings, magical things - wanting us to stretch our imaginations. They give us the Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. That's all well and good - for kids - but when we reach a certain age, they just expect us to give it all up and get over it. Accept that there is no magic, there are no happy endings, and that fairy tales are actually violent nasty things instead of what we were led to believe. She said that it should be no wonder then, when we reached the age that belief in these things was no longer acceptable, that we turned to drugs - that we wanted that magic, we wanted the fairy tales, and we wanted that all-over feel good illusion again. Granted, this was more true back when the song was written, but that was the impetus behind the writing of it. Sort of a social statement all wrapped up in the Wonderland theme.
That's straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Hope it helps.
2006-08-30 19:48:17 · answer #1 · answered by Crooks Gap 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, basically it's about drugs.
This was written by Grace Slick, who based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll's book Alice In Wonderland. Like many young musicians in San Francisco, Slick did a lot of drugs. She saw lots of drug references in Carroll's book, including the pills, the smoking caterpillar, the mushroom, and lots of other images that are generally trippy. She noticed that lots of children's' stories involve a substance of some kind that alters reality, and felt it was time to write a song about it.
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2006-08-30 19:38:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's totally your basic 60's drug song of the time. I love this song, it's always been one of my favorite 60's songs. Lots of memories for me. I was in high school when this song was out. I'm in ,my 50's now and I still play my oldies! You have great taste. Did you hear Somebody To Love also by Jefferson Airplane? Another good one.
2006-08-31 01:40:18 · answer #3 · answered by BoosGrammy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember what the doormouse said,
"Feed your head"
"Feed your head"
I am near your age, but my husband is older and familiar with White Rabbit. His advice is to rent the movie "Woodstock" and all will become clear.
It was not uncommon for the youth of the time to use LSD or "acid" to "take a trip".
White Rabbit is symbolic of one of those trips. It is inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice, who goes on a strange and wonderful adventure in Wonderland, something my husband admits to attempting many times.
(hmmm... that may explain certain behavior today)
He also says that "tonalc_1" above me, is quite correct and gets our thumbs-up of approval.
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2006-08-30 19:40:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a movie with Patty Duke something like Go Ask Alice where she plays a drug addict. The song was used in the movie.
2006-08-30 19:45:22 · answer #5 · answered by yacheckoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋