5 Psychedelic Chillout Songs with Great Lyrics
5 Psychedelic Chillout Songs with Great Lyrics
Psychedelic chillout music is known for instrumental experimentation, mind-altering melodies, and creative sampling, but there are those special Psybient tracks that have lyrics you will remember long after the song is over.
Check these psychedelic chillout tracks with lyrics:
Sphongle – Once Upon The Sea Of Blissful Awareness
Tales of The Inexpressible was Shpongle’s second album, and included the ethereal vocals of Abigail Gorton:
Waves of the soft spring wind
Waves of the soft spring wind
Love’s flood tide is rising full
The moon of love is rising full
Sea of beauty
The moon of love is rising full
Love’s flood tide
Laugh some, weep some, dance for joy
Laugh some, weep some, dance for joy
Laugh some, weep some, dance for joy
Laugh some, weep some, dance for joy
My mind craves nectar day and night
Like a blue lotus floating on the sea of love
Lingering in ashantic realms
Lingering in the akashic realms
Lingering in, lingering in the realms
Blue lotus floats
Blue lotus floats
Floating, floating
Floating, floating
Floating, floating
Laugh some, weep some, dance for joy
Laugh some, weep some, dance for joy
Laugh some, weep some, dance for joy
Laugh some, weep some, dance for joy
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy
My mind craves nectar day and night
Bluetech – Becoming The Seed (featuring Eve Ladyapples)
Eve Ladyapple’s ethereal spoken word lyrics are as beautiful an ode to life and the grand and fertile cycles of nature as we have ever heard.
I am not the beginning
But I live in a small room near there
I wake to light each moment
I find the cracks and sing daily expansion songs
To their sleep ambitions
What I know is alive
What I know is green and fearless and unmapped
I have given birth to myself with each year’s revolution
Offering to a larger nourishment
Not meant for the stockpile
The shadowed storehouses of un-harvest
This fertile form wants only to be put to use
Planted in rich soil
Watered, weeded
One of a vast and diverse permaculture
Each moment wakes me to light
Shedding protective layers
So light can breed life
Carried in bird beaks
On insect wings
In the labyrinths of wind
Any earth is home
And worth knowing
I love best any hands that cradle me sacred
I love equally the wild that scatter
And the even rose
I sing equally the sowing song
The reaping song
And the song of perfect rain
I am the joyful offering to any true need
And when I am done being seed
I will laugh
Rename myself “The World”
And go on singing this offering song
Ott – The Aubergine of The Sun
The joy and optimism that infuses Ott’s 2011 album Mir is perfectly encapsulated in these sunny lyrics, a perfect song to sing your newborn baby, or even an extraterrestrial visitor!
Welcome.
We think you’ll like it here.
It’s not perfect.
But it’s really all we’ve got.
Most people,
You’ll find are usually quite nice.
And for the time you’re here,
There’s lots to see and do,
And we’ll be here to care for you,
And help you find your way.
Younger Brother – Psychic Gibbon
Psychedelic downtempo is associated with festivals and hallucinogenics, but with the right lyrics, you can curl up on the sofa with your soulmate and create a romantic moment. These lyrics speak of two souls deeply intertwined and in love.
See you in the sky in the morning
See you in the stars at night
See you in the river flowing
See you in the grass
Feel you as I find myself flowing
Feel you as I find myself feeling
Five toes, five fingered all the time
Oooooohh…
It’s a higher, higher ground
Dhoop – Just A Little Deed
Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental activist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells the story of the hummingbird, an empowering lesson we can all take to heart in times of difficulty.
“The story of the hummingbird is about this huge forest being consumed by a fire. All the animals in the forest come out and they are transfixed as they watch the forest burning and they feel very overwhelmed, very powerless, except this little hummingbird. It says, ‘I’m going to do something about the fire!’ So it flies to the nearest stream and takes a drop of water. It puts it on the fire, and goes up and down, up and down, up and down, as fast as it can.
In the meantime all the other animals, much bigger animals like the elephant with a big trunk that could bring much more water, they are standing there helpless. And they are saying to the hummingbird, ‘What do you think you can do? You are too little. This fire is too big. Your wings are too little and your beak is so small that you can only bring a small drop of water at a time.’
But as they continue to discourage it, it turns to them without wasting any time and it tells them, ‘I am doing the best I can.’”