When I was in my teens it seemed that among most of the other teens that I hung out with that is was widely accepted that this song was about acid. It is, imo, easily the most rocking jam of all of Chicago's repertoire. Robert Lamm in on record vehemently denying that this song is about acid, absurdly claiming the reference is with respect to either 03:35 or 03:34 on the clock. Nope. I don't think so. 6 to 4 as we understood it is a reference to shift work and 25 is a reference to LSD-25. "Should I try to do some more....." That is the very definition of wanting to keep an acid buzz going. Trust me, I was told about it from a friend of a friend. Wait, what? My wife just told me she can't take anymore of my s and my response was what? You need a little Coke and Sympathy?..... Hahaha.... Happy Saturday folks, another random thought.....
And then trying to say that "Kodachrome" is about marijuana rather than a paean to the most superior film ever made
Kodachooo-oo-me give us the greens of summer, make you think all the world's on a sunny day Oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph Mama don't take my Kodachrome away If you took all the girls I knew when I was single And brought 'em all together for one night They could never match my sweet imagination And everything looks worse in black and white Mama don't take my Kodachrome And leave your boy so far from home Mama don't take my Kodachrome away Oh yeh, that's surely film, what else could it be?
Thanks @Aleksander Ulyanov, I never made the connection and it is a very cool thing about this song that has escaped my attention for many years.
Or that, "Snow Blind," is about something other than that terrible menace & affliction of Arctic & Antarctic explorers-- though I can hardly imagine what.