Meaning Behind the Song “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane
The meaning behind Jefferson Airplane’s classic tune “White Rabbit” is one that reflects the decade in which it was born. Dealing in ’60s-era psychedelia, the mind-altering rock anthem takes listeners on a whimsical journey through Wonderland after a dizzying tumble down the rabbit hole.
The Origins
“White Rabbit” was penned by Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick when she was still a member of the band The Great Society. She borrowed the song’s trippy imagery from Lewis Carroll’s timeless children’s books, Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Slick explained to The Guardian how she wrote “White Rabbit” on a piano that cost her around $50. “It had eight or 10 keys missing, but that was OK,” she said, “because I could hear in my head the notes that weren’t there. I used that piano to write several different songs.”
“White Rabbit,” in particular, was a product of its time. Appearing on Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 sophomore album Surrealistic Pillow, the first with Slick as a vocalist, the song closely resembled the decade – its ethos and the counterculture – and would soon become synonymous with it.
“The 1960s resembled Wonderland for me,” Slick told the outlet. “Like Alice, I met all kinds of strange characters, but I was comfortable with it.”
The song’s mind-expanding meaning came with the help of mind-expanding substances. “In the 60s, the drugs were not ones like heroin and alcohol that you take to blot out a terrible life, but psychedelics: marijuana, LSD and shroomies,” Slick said. “Psychedelic drugs showed you that there are alternative realities. You open up to things that are unusual and different, and, in realizing that there are alternative ways of looking at things, you become more accepting of things around you.”
She admits the tune is darkly tinged. “It’s not saying everything’s going to be wonderful,” she added. “The Red Queen is shouting off with her head and the White Knight is talking backwards. Lewis Carroll was looking at how things are run and the people who rule us.”
But the main message comes with the closing line feed your head, wailed in repetition. “[It is] both about reading and psychedelics,” she said of the lyric. “I was talking about feeding your head by paying attention: read some books, pay attention.”
The song explores psychedelics in their fundamental form, the band’s bassist Jack Casady echoed in the same interview. “The idea of taking psychedelic drugs to open you up and make you more receptive,” he added. Many people during that era took psychedelics, he explained. “That was part of the environment of the time and ‘White Rabbit’ reflected that.”
https://americansongwriter.com/meaning-behind-the-song-white-rabbit-by-jefferson-airplane/
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What do they have in common? Lot's of ready cash and a will to dominate the world through banking. Control the world through economic means instead of armies, although they are the backup plan and help to enforce the economic plan.
Iran doesn't have the capital to do much. The other two are spread all over the globe and is what they have in common with each other even if they don't recognize it. Birds of a feather kind of thing. Shills kiss the butts of other shills.
The NWO is not doing anyone any good other than for themselves. So naturally the other big players are going to probably resent being forced into their "economic plan."
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Made me think of this one.
That's a good one too.
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We ridin' the Trump train.
I gotta through this in there. Iconic. At least to me it is.
Throw.
Same to you. Although truth be told, I no longer believe what they promote it as. It's basically yuletide. Winter solstice.
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I think we figured it out when it was first posted. Don't remember what it was though.
Why you crying? We have to suffer all kinds of stupid shit on here, pig and others are at least somewhat entertaining. EVERY single pig post promotes our country. So why do you bitch so much about it?
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Same. It's when I first started paying attention. Never was on half chan.
KEK. I've delt a lot with leftist shills like you in the past. You can believe whatever the fuck you want. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT (YOU) or what you think.
I seem to remember the open window on a high rise in China. Something about letting smoke out. I still haven't quite figured out what that was although I do remember some time back when I thought I might have a possible connection but don't remember what it was. Then there was those images of big boxes inside trucks. Eh, doesn't matter. The die is cast now.
I think the shills be mad.
You gotta close your eyes when you call them. And hold the bag open nice and wide. KEK