Moonchild's Psychedelic Holiday [Lawrence Gowan]

Moonchild's Psychedelic Holiday
Written by Lawrence Gowan
Lead Vocals by Lawrence Gowan

Way back in '69
Moonchild was there with her open-mind
She still lives by echoes
Of all that generation
Through a telescope
To the past she sees
How wonderful
Everything could be

When Moonchild sits with her love-beads on
And she tokes her way
Through another '60's song
Free love, peace symbols, purple haze
Carry her away
On a psychedelic holiday

Musical legends played
Everyone tripped on the sounds they made
Went dancing along
In a heavy love explosion
Love was everywhere incense filled the air
Jim Morrison gonna take her there

When Moonchild sits with her love-beads on
And she tokes her way
Through another '60's song
Free love, peace symbols, purple haze
Carry her away
On a psychedelic holiday

Interpretation

In the August of 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair played in Bethel, New York, and it is considered a seminal moment in popular music history and the counterculture movement of the late 60s and early 70s. The name Moonchild is typical of names given to their children by the hippies. She represents those people who never let go of the past and the dreams of peace and love that members of the movement espoused. She still smokes pot and listens to psychedelic music, wearing her beads and peace symbols.