Voyage 34 (Nags Head 4/12/93) versuri

Voyage 34 (Nags Head 4/12/93) lyrics by Porcupine Tree

Intro: Lawrence Schiller
This remarkable, sometimes incoherent transcript illustrates a phantasmagoria of fear, terror, grief, exultation, and finally breakdown
Its highlights have been compressed on this recording to make their own disquieting points

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Interlude: Lawrence Schiller
The time is 9:30 p.m., one hour after the participants have eaten sugar cubes saturated with LSD
We hear Brian and his fellow travellers observing their gradual transformation

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Brian’s been amusing his friends by chewing on some plastic flashbulbs

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Brian’s mood is gradually changing
He orders all of his friends into anothеr room and closes the door
He sits alonе on the wooden floor, visible only by the dim light shining from the bathroom
He talks to himself

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Interlude: Lawrence Schiller
The time is now 1 a.m.
Brian is unable to snap his fingers and terminate the trip, which continues

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He sobs, as his joy turns to fear

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Brian’s rocky journey ended twelve hours after it so innocently had begun
He was shattered by it

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Outro: Sidney Cohen
This young man never had a bummer in some thirty-three LSD trips
Every one of them was a delight
Everything under control
He needed only to snap his fingers and down he came, any time
But on Voyage 34 he finally met himself coming down an up-staircase, and the encounter was crushing