Artist: Jefferson Airplane Album: Surrealistic Pillow Song: White Rabbit Year: 1967 Top Chart Position: #8

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call And call Alice, when she was just small When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low Go ask Alice, I think she'll know When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead And the white knight is talking backwards And the red queen's off with her head Remember what the dormouse said Feed your head, feed your head

White Rabbit is often misconstrued as a song about Alice in Wonderland, and while this is true, it is far more appropriate to say that it is a song about drug use and the effects thereof. It is in all actuality about the use of LSD. The use of colorful images taken from Alice in Wonderland paint the beautiful, yet often terrifying, hallucinations of it use. On a technical note, this song was one of the first to use what is know as a ring-delay reverb chamber as an effect for the guitar.