White Rabbit (song)

White Rabbit is a psychedelic rock song from Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album, Surrealistic Pillow. It contains many references to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, including the title character. The song's references to pills and changes of perception are reminiscent of an LSD trip.

Lyrics

One pill makes you larger

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And one pill makes you small

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And the ones that mother gives you

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Don't do anything at all

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Go ask Alice

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When she's ten feet tall

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And if you go chasing rabbits

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And you know you're going to fall

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Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar

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Has given you the call

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Call Alice

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When she was just small

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When the men on the chessboard

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Get up and tell you where to go

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And you've just had some kind of mushroom

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And your mind is moving low

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Go ask Alice

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I think she'll know

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When logic and proportion

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Have fallen sloppy dead

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And the White Knight is talking backwards

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And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"

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Remember what the doormouse said:

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"Feed your head

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Feed your head"

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