What Song Did You Hear That Made You Realize You Were A Hippie?

There were a couple of songs that did it for me. I think the first one was The Eve of Destruction. The words really hit true to me but there was one thing that I believed - as fucked up as this world was, it wasn't the eve of destruction. I believed it could be The Eve of Love.
The second song was Elusive Butterfly . If you are familiar with that song at all, I think the lyrics speak for themselves. I'm curious - did you listen to the lyrics as closely as I did? If you did, what song or songs made you realise that you were different than "the normal" person ?

PAX

 

slightly stoopid
wiseman
collie man
no cocaine
just a couple but there is more check them out if you don't know

 

Tell me what it is about these songs that made you believe that you were a hippie.

PAX

 

i never thought of my self a one intil trippin on shrooms and it just came to me i know weired but thats my anwser and i think im going to stick to it.

 

wile listening to those songs

 

probably when i first started listening to music, i listened to everything and the beatles just hit me as the music i digg,, i had the abbey road album i was probably 12, and just loved it and went on to listen to all there othger shit, and then dylan, and everything else

 

^^I'm with him. That's almost verbatim to what I was going to say.

My first Phish concert in 2004 was the actual "ah hah" moment.

That and the first time I heard Norman Greenbaum's Spirit In The Sky. lol

 

Ball of Confusion
SIGNS
Mrs Robinson
Ballad of Yoko and John

 

not sure if this was the defining song for me, there were a number..which i shall remember when i get the time to think..
but one that certainly made an impact on me, both lyrically and musically, was come away melinda, and i can't think which version it was originally, there have been a few that have recorded it..

uriah heep, come away melinda..


~~
Daddy, daddy, come and look
See what I have found
A little ways away from here
While digging in the ground

Come away melinda
Come in and close the door
Its nothing, just a picture-book
They had before the war

Daddy, daddy, come and see
Daddy, come and look
Why, theres four or five
Little melinda girls
Inside my picture book

Come away melinda
Come in and close the door
There were lots of little girls like you
Before they had the war

Oh daddy, daddy, come and see
Daddy, hurry do
Why, theres someone
In a pretty dress
Shes all grown up like you
Wont you tell me why

Come away melinda
Come in and close the door
That someone is your mummy
You had before the war

Daddy, daddy, tell me if you can
Why cant things be
The way they were
Before the war began

Come away melinda
Come in and close the door
The answer lies in yesterday
Before they had the war~~


and you've just taken me back years with that bob lind song..
just played in on youtube, and every word came back into my head..
for those who may not know it, i hope you don't mind paxman if i put the lyrics here..but will have to be later

bob lind, elusive butterfly..youtube.

 

help me by ten yars after really did something for me. I heard it the first time when my dad played it hwen he had an old friend over and I never have been quite the same. I really identified with that song for a long time. it is basically a ten minute long bluesrock jam freakout but lyrics never have been an issue for me anyway.

another song that is special to me is almost cut my hair, because how often does it happen that you're about to throw away your ideals because of whatever happens around you? it keeps my spirit strong.

 

I think it would be nice to put the lyrics in like peaceful-lady did , if you can .




ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY

You might wake up some mornin'
To the sound of something moving past your window in the wind
And if you're quick enough to rise
You'll catch a fleeting glimpse of someone's fading shadow
Out on the new horizon
You may see the floating motion of a distant pair of wings
And if the sleep has left your ears
You might hear footsteps running through an open meadow

Don't be concerned, it will not harm you
It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
Across my dreams with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love

You might have heard my footsteps
Echo softly in the distance through the canyons of your mind
I might have even called your name
As I ran searching after something to believe in
You might have seen me runnin'
Through the long-abandoned ruins of the dreams you left behind
If you remember something there
That glided past you followed close by heavy breathin'

Don't be concerned, it will not harm you
It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
Across my dreams with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love



Across my dreams with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love



The Eve Of Destruction

The eastern world it is explodin',
Violence flarin', bullets loadin',
You're old enough to kill but not for votin',
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin',
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
Nn, Can't you feel the fears that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
Take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
Handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
And marches alone can't bring integration,
When human respect is disintegratin',
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
But when your return, it's the same old place,
The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
Hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace,
And you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction. mmm, no, no.
you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

PAX

 

You might wake up some mornin'
To the sound of something moving past your window in the wind
And if you're quick enough to rise
You'll catch the fleeting glimpse of someone's fading shadow
Out on the new horizon
You may see the floating motion of a distant pair of wings
And if the sleep has left your ears
You might hear footsteps running through an open meadow

Don't be concerned, it will not harm you
It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
Across my dreams with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love

You might have heard my footsteps
Echo softly in the distance through the canyons of your mind
I might have even called your name
As I ran searching after something to believe in
You might have seen me runnin'
Through the long-abandoned ruins of the dreams you left behind
If you remember something there
That glided past you followed close by heavy breathin'

Don't be concerned, it will not harm you
It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
Across my dreams with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love..

 

ooops, you got there before me pax-man..

 

i am the walrus. lol

 

slightly stoopid collie man

And some man live his life
For profits alone
That very same man
He lives his life all alone
And the road to life
Yes it goes up and down
Doesn't really matter
As long as the music goes on
Hey mister collie man
Why don't you come round no more
Hey mister collie collie man
Don't you hear me troubled call
Hey mister collie man
Look i didn't come to disturb
You best not be come 'round here
Unless you've got me sensi herb
I never needed any
Reason for me to say
Through all them troubled times
Yes me love you any way
And the roughest path
You know the rocky rocky road
You know that
Life and love is a
Heavy heavy load
Hey mister collie man
Why don't you come 'round no more
Hey mister collie collie man
Dont you hear me troubled call
Hey mister collie man
Look i didn't come to disturb
You best not be come round here
Unless you've got me sensi herb
You best not be come round here
Unless you've got me sensi herb

 

wel, i guess, it was not a special song or so.....
growing up in Germany in the late 60s was not so easy, it was a little bit more difficult to get rock-records, and they were kinda expensive. What me as a 14 year kid draw to counter-culture,being a 14 year kid, hat was the anti-establishment-thing, behind of all that new sound, Hendrix of course made a big impression to me, movies like Easy Rider and so on, and there was still the war in Vietnam, i met some deserted soldiers in our local disco, one of them had a guitar, and he always played that Country Joe song " I feel like i'm fixing to die rag" By the way, i never had called myself a hippie, the others did,

 

I would have to say John Lennon's Imagine. I realized that war is not the answer, peace is, and I also don't believe in possessions, I believe that everything I have is everybody's, and I also don't believe in countries, geography for too many years has been keeping us from being one.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHz03ZYsWK0&feature=related

 

john denver songs , and some james taylor songs , i grew up w hippy music and and the fact that i am hippy in nature a lot of the songs i know are of that genration

 

...all we are saying, is give peace a chance....John...