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Some newspaperman came up
and he said, "Have you had LSD?"
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So I thought,
"I'll either be cagey here or be honest."
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So I said, "Yes."
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And it was his responsibility,
reporting it.
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So they had him on TV saying,
"Why did you say this?"
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Very much like that statement...
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They kept asking him, "Did you take it?"
So he says, "Yeah."
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But on TV, he says,
"You don't print this bit of film.
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"I don't want to tell anybody about that.
It's private"...
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Almost like the situation
with the Christ statement.
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But see, they just asked
me a question. I gave them an answer.
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And then it was blown up.
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I mean, you know, I just spoke the truth
and it's sometimes painful.
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This is the truth.
My son came home with a drawing...
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and showed me
this strange-Iooking woman flying around.
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I said, "What is it?" He said,
"It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds."
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I thought, "That's beautiful."
I immediately wrote a song about it.
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The song had gone out,
the whole album had been published...
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when somebody noticed
that the letters spelled out "LSD."
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And I had no idea about it.
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And, of course,
after that I was checking...
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all the songs to see
what the letters spelled out.
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They didn't spell out anything.
None of the others.
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It wasn't about that at all, you know.