Surrealistic Pillow
The Jefferson Airplane’s Iconic Album
Seems to me, if ya were able to have only one Jefferson Airplane album, this would be the one to hodl. (That’s crypto-speak meaning “hold on for dear life.”)
This collector’s edition CD includes remastered as well as original mono versions.
The song lyrics are below.
Track Listing
Track 01 – 00:00 || Track 12 – 34:57
“She Has Funny Cars”
Track 02 – 03:13 || Track 13 – 38:03
“Somebody To Love”
Track 03 – 06:13 || Track 14 – 41:03
“My Best Friend”
Track 04 – 09:17 || Track 15 – 44:06
“Today”
Track 05 – 12:20 || Track 16 – 47:07
“Comin’ Back To Me”
Track 06 – 17:43 || Track 17 – 52:36
“3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds”
Track 07 – 21:29 || Track 18 – 56:21
“D.C.B.A. – 25”
Track 08 – 24:09 || Track 19 – 58:59
“How Do You Feel”
Track 09 – 27:43 – Track 20 – 1:02:31
“Embryonic Journey”
Track 10 – 29:38 || Track 21 – 1:04:25
“White Rabbit”
Track 11 – 32:11 || Track 22 – 1:06:57
“Plastic Fantastic Lover”
Song Lyrics
She Has Funny Cars – 0:01
Every day I try so hard to know your mind
And find out what’s inside you
Time goes on and I don’t know just where you are
Or how I’m going to find you
You can do whatever you please
The world’s waiting to be seized
You can collect all neglect
Or all the self-respect you need
And I know, and I know, and I know
Your mind’s guaranteed
It’s all you’ll ever need
So what do you want with me?
We live but once
But good things can be found around
In spite of all the sorrow
If you see black
You can’t look back
You can’t look front
You cannot face tomorrow
Some have it nice
Fat and round, flash, paradise
They’re very wise to their disguise
Trying to revolutionize tomorrow
And I know, and I know, and I know
Your mind’s guaranteed
It’s all you’ll ever need
So what do you want with me?
Somebody to Love – 3:13
When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies
Don’t you want somebody to love
Don’t you need somebody to love
Wouldn’t you love somebody to love
You better find somebody to love
Love, love
When the garden flowers, baby are dead, yes and
Your mind, your mind is so full of red
Don’t you want somebody to love
Don’t you need somebody to love
Wouldn’t you love somebody to love
You better find somebody to love
Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
Yeah, but in your head, baby
I’m afraid you don’t know where it is
Don’t you want somebody to love
Don’t you need somebody to love
Wouldn’t you love somebody to love
You better find somebody to love
Tears are running down
They’re all running down your breast
And your friends, baby
They treat you like a guest
My Best Friend — 6:13
Ah you’re my best friend (you are my best friend), and I love you so well
Till the end of time you won’t see me
Ah you’re my best friend (you are my best friend), and I see you, it seems
Now I can see I’ve fallen into your love stream
I’ll follow your dream
Do you know what I mean, yeah
I’ll follow you wherever time will take me to
Forever I’ll be one with you, one with you, one with you
Ah you’re my best friend (you are my best friend), am I all that you’re seeing
I’ll set you free, and then just like me you’ll be being
In love with me
Do you know what I mean, yeah
Do you know what I mean
I’m gonna set you free
You’ll be in love with me
You’re my best friend, now
Ah you’re my best friend (you are my best friend), and I love you so well
Till the end of time you won’t see me
Ah you’re my best friend (you are my best friend), and I see you, it seems
Now I can see I’ve fallen into your love stream
I’ll follow your dream
Do you know what I mean
Do you know what I mean
You’ll be in love with me
I’m gonna set you free
Ah, you’re my best friend, now
Today — 9:17
Today, I feel like pleasing you
More than before
Today, I know what I want to do
But I don’t know what for
To be living for you
Is all I want to do
To be loving you
It’ll all be there
When my dreams come true
Today, you’ll make me say
That I somehow have changed
Today, you’ll look into my eyes
I’m just not the same
To be any more than all I am
Would be a lie
I’m so full of love
I could burst apart
And start to cry
Today, everything you want
I swear it will all come true
Today, I realize how much
I’m in love with you
With you standing here
I could tell the world
What it means to love
To go on from here
I can’t use words
They don’t say enough
Please, please listen to me
It’s taken so long to come true
It’s all for you, all for you
Comin’ Back to Me — 12:20
The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long
The winter looked the same, as if it never had gone
And through an open window where no curtain hung
I saw you
I saw you
Comin’ back to me
One begins to read between the pages of a look
The shape of sleepy music, and suddenly you’re hooked
Through the rain upon the trees, the kisses on the run
I saw you
I saw you
Comin’ back to me
You came to stay and live my way
Scatter my love like leaves in the wind
You always say you won’t go away
But I know what it always has been
It always has been
A transparent dream beneath an occasional sigh
Most of the time I just let it go by
Now I wish it hadn’t begun
I saw you, yes, I saw you
Comin’ back to me
Strolling the hills overlooking the shore
I realized I’ve been there before
The shadow in the mist could have been anyone
I saw you
I saw you
Comin’ back to me
Small things like reasons are put in a jar
Whatever happened to wishes wished upon a star?
Was it just something that I made up for fun?
I saw you, I saw you comin’ back to me
3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds — 17:43
Do away with people blowin’ my mind
Do away with people wastin’ my precious time
Take me to a simple place
Where I can easily see my face
Maybe baby, I’ll see that you were kind
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Do away with people laughin’ at my hair
Do away with people frownin’ on my precious cares
Take me to a circus tent
Where I can easily pay my rent
And all the other freaks will share my cares
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Know I love you baby, yes I do
Do away with things that come on obscene
Like hot rods, pre-cleaned real fine nicotine
Sometimes the price is sixty-five dollars
Prices like that make a grown man holler
‘Specially when it’s sold by a kid who’s only fifteen
Know I love you baby, yes I do
D.C.B.A-25 — 21:29
It’s time you walked away and set me free
I must move away, ‘n’ leave you be
Time has been good to us my friend,
Wait, and see how it will end
We come and go as we please
We come and go as we please (that’s how it has to be)
Here in crystal chandelier, I’m home
Too many days, I’ve left unstoned
If you don’t mind happiness
Purple-pleasure fields in the sun
Ah, don’t you know I’m runnin’ home
Don’t you know I’m runnin’ home (to a place to you unknown? )
I take great peace in your sitting there
Searching for myself, I find a place there
I see the people of the world
Where they are and what they could be
I can but dance behind your smile
I can but dance behind your smile (you were the world to me for a while)
How Do You Feel — 24:09
Look into her eyes
Do you see what I mean?
Just look at her hair
And when she speaks, oh what a pleasant surprise
How do you feel?
Just look at her smile
Do you see what I mean?
She is looking our way
Oh how I wish we could stay, just stay for a while
How do you feel?
When I meet a girl like that
I don’t know what to say
But to greet a girl like that
Brightens up my day
My day, oh
How do you feel?
Just look at her walk
Do you see what I mean?
She is coming our way
Oh, how my heart beats, I don’t even think I could talk
How do you feel?
When I meet a girl like that
I don’t know what to say
But to greet a girl like that
Brightens up my day
My day, oh
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
(Do you know how you feel?)
Just look at her smile
(Tell me how do you feel?)
Look into her eyes
(Tell me how do you feel?)
She is coming our way
(Tell me how do you feel?)
Look into her eyes
Embryonic Journey — 27:43
Instrumental
White Rabbit — 29:38
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall,
Tell ’em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said:
“Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head.
Plastic Fantastic Lover — 32:11
Her neon mouth with a bleeding talk smile
Is nothing but electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She’s a part of a colorful time
Super-sealed lady, chrome-color clothes
You wear ’cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You’re my plastic fantastic lover
Your rattlin’ cough never shuts off
Is nothing but a used machine
Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I’ve ever seen
Cosmetic baby, plug into me
And never, ever find another
And I realize no one’s wise
To my plastic fantastic lover
The electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program waste
Data control and I.B.M.
Science is mankind’s brother
But all I see is draining me
On my plastic fantastic lover