With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Ah... Ah...
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain,
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
- I love this trippy, psychedelic Beatles song. Today marks the passing of the woman who is said to have inspired this song (Lucy Vodden). I chose to call myself 'the girl with kaleidoscope eyes' because I believe that if you have (metaphorically speaking!) kaleidoscope eyes, you are open-minded and have the ability to see the beauty in everything. In the same way you are able to look into a kaleidoscope and see many separate shapes and colours come together and form patterns that are constantly changing - poems are strung together with words, visions, ideas, metaphors - life is strung together with people, nature, language, ideas, truth, love. The girl with kaleidoscope eyes sees the beauty and poetry of the ever-changing world around her and wants everyone to see through her kaleidoscope ;-)
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