1:50:16
~ There you stood on
the edge of your feather ~
1:50:22
~ Expecting to fly ~
1:50:30
We're all wired
into a survival trip now.
1:50:34
No more of the speed
that fueled the '60s.
1:50:37
That was the fatal flaw
in Tim Leary's trip.
1:50:40
He crashed around America,
selling "consciousness expansion"...
1:50:44
without ever giving a thought
to the grim meat-hook realities
that were lying in wait...
1:50:47
for all those people
who took him seriously.
1:50:50
All those pathetically eager
acid freaks...
1:50:53
who thought they could buy peace and
understanding for three bucks a hit.
1:50:57
But their loss
and failure...
1:50:59
is ours too.
1:51:02
What Leary took down with him was the
central illusion of a whole lifestyle...
1:51:05
that he helped create.
1:51:07
A generation
of permanent cripples...
1:51:10
failed seekers...
1:51:12
who never understood the essential
old-mystic fallacy of the acid culture:
1:51:16
the desperate assumption
that somebody...
1:51:19
or at least some force...
1:51:21
is tending the light
at the end of the tunnel.
1:51:31
There was only one road
back to L.A.
1:51:33
U.S. Interstate 15.
1:51:37
Just a flat out high-speed burn
through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo.
1:51:41
Then onto the Hollywood Freeway,
straight into frantic oblivion...
1:51:43
safety, obscurity.
1:51:46
Just another freak...
in the freak kingdom.
1:51:49
~ I was born
in a cross-fire hurricane ~
1:51:56
~ But I howled at my ma
in the driving rain ~