Voyage 34

[ti:Voyage 34] [ar:Porcupine Tree] [al:Warszawa] [offset:0] Voyage 34 - Porcupine Tree This remarkable, Sometimes incoherent transcript Illustrates a phantasmagoria of Fear, terror, grief, exaltation And finally breakdown. Its' highlights have been Compressed on this recording to make Their own disquieting points. -music- The time is 9:30 pm, 1 hour after the participants Have eaten sugar cubes saturated with LSD. We hear brian and his fellow travelers Observing their gradual transformation. -music- Brian's been amusing his friends By chewing on some plastic flashbulbs. -music- Brians' mood is gradually changing, He orders all of his friends Into another room, Closes the door, He sits alone on a wooden floor, Visible only by the dim light Shining from the bathroom. He talks to himself. -music- The time is now 1 am, Brian is unable to snap his fingers And terminate the trip, which continues. -music- He sobs, as his joy turns to fear. -music- Brians' rocky journey Ended 12 hours after it Had so innocently begun, He was shattered by it. -music- This young man Never had a bummer In some 33 LSD trips. Every one of them was a delight, Everything under control. He needed only to snap his fingers And down he came, anytime. But on voyage 34 he finally met himself Coming down an up-staircase, And the encounter was crushing. -End-