So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. We had all the momentum we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene - which were ladies vibrators. Not in any mean or military sense we didn't need that. 'They call me Mellow Yellow, I'm the guy who can calm you down.' John Lennon and I used to look in the back of newspapers and pull out funny things and they'd end up in songs. And that, I think, was the handle -that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. There was madness in any direction, at any hour. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. the kind of peak that never comes again. I think the feeling in this song is also characterized by the Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis, and a passage in a book by Hunter S. Coldplay ' Yellow ' Donovan ' Mellow Yellow ' The Beatles ' Yellow Submarine ' Joni Mitchell ' Big Yellow Taxi ' Phil Lynott ' Yellow Pearl '. Some people describe that time in history as having brief flashes of utopia, which ultimately ended up disappearing, but it's influence still lies heavily on the world today: an Atlantis if you will. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, oh yeahĪtlantis is a metaphor for the peak of the sixties, when it seemed a new world was being created, a good world. My antediluvian baby, gotta tell me where she gone My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new The magician and the other so-called gods of our legendsĪnd as the elders of our time choose to remain blind The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis The antediluvian kings colonized the worldĪll the gods who play in the mythological dramas The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of The Atlantian culture To the South and the North Americas with ease So great an area of land, that from her western shores Donovan’s ‘Mellow Yellow’ may seem like it’s about liking a girl. More responses to Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge here.In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean Donovan, ‘Mellow Yellow’ (1966) Advertisement Sample lyric: I’m just mad about fourteen. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind The lyrics mean either nothing or…whatever you choose. He had a bad habit (cruel joke perhaps) of pissing in the hot tub when ever someone else stepped in. However, here’s Donovan, an artiste I haven’t featured here before, who was one of my mid-teens favourites. Yellow Mellow was a nickname Donovans friends gave him. I have options from all of what you could call my usual suspects (‘Green Is The Colour’ ‘Tangled Up In Blue ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’ ‘Purple Haze’: the Jerry Garcia Band’s ‘Rhapsody In Red’). Mellow Yellow lyrics: Im just mad about Saffron Saffrons mad about me Im just mad about Saffron Shes just mad about me They call me mellow yellow (Quite. There are certainly plenty to choose from, even if you take out all the blacks, whites and greys. Mellow Yellow 457.2K 4,852 105 more tracks from the album The British Invasion: History of British Rock, Vols. ‘Colours’ (sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to spell that word without the ‘u’ that belongs there) is the theme for this week.
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