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25 or 6 to 4: Is this song about Acid or the Time of Day?

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  1. Grey Matter

    Grey Matter Well-Known Member Donor

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    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.....

     
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    Next you'll be saying that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is about LSD.
     
    Montegriffo, Jul 17, 2021
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    Grey Matter Well-Known Member Donor

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    ABSURD! ABSOLUTELY ABSURD I SAY!!!
     
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    And then trying to say that "Kodachrome" is about marijuana rather than a paean to the most superior film ever made
     
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    Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
    Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
    Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

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    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?
     
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    My very first pot container!
     
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    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.
     
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    Porn?
     
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    I THINK that's what You Can Call Me Al is about, but I'm far less sure about that
     
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    Or that, "Snow Blind," is about something other than that terrible menace & affliction of Arctic & Antarctic explorers-- though I can hardly imagine what.
     
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    Thanks, Grey; I never understood the "6 to 4," part.
     
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