A psychedelic experience has roughly the duration of a day (unlike the few hours of effects of alcohol and others). So it is natural that a band in 1967 would make an album about a day in the life (remember also the song by The Beatles), seemingly a common day but truly a special day.
From the start, when a god-like (old-fashioned, dated, ok, but who cares...) voice says:
Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is gray and yellow, white
But we decide which is right And which is an illusion
you know you're listening to a truly psychedelic album. What is reality, anyway?
Our hero gets delighted by all kinds of common things: the smell of grass (pun intended), time passing, children playing, twilight, love.
The feeling of hope about mankind and future is quite noticeable, which is a common feature of the 1960's:
Do you understand
That all over this land
There's a feeling
In minds far and near
Things are becoming clear
With a meaning
When we get to make our mind clear, perhaps every common day may be an extraordinary day.
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