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Season Of The Witch Lyrics
Artist: Donovan
Album: Sunshine Superman
When I looked out my window
Many sights to see
And when I looded in my window
So many different people to be
That is strange, so strange
You got to pick out every stitch (3)
Must be the season of the witch (3)
When I looked over my shoulder
What do you think I see
Summer cat looking over
It shoulder at me
Any strange, sure is strange
You got to pick out every stitch (2)
Beat me its eye to make it rich oh no
Must be the season of the witch (3)
You got to pick out every stitch
The rabbit's running in the ditch
Beat me its eye to make it rich oh no
Must be the season of the witch (3)
When I go
When I looked out my window
What do you think I see
And when I looked in my window
So many different people to be
It's strange, sure is strange
You got to pick out every stitch (2)
The rabbit's running in the ditch oh no
Must be the season of the witch (3)
When I to, when I go
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Comments/Interpretations
Obviously you did not pay much attention to the words that this "STONED SIMPLETON" put into music. They definitely had meaning. Usualy deeper meaning than most simpletons could comprehind. And whoever put the above lyrics down in print didn't pay much attention either.
It's "Beatniks are out to make it rich" not beat me its eye to make it rich....
That is the most butchered lyrics I have seen in a while. Too much to even go into. He was great.
I just don't get it sounds evil and like maybe this guy had a thing about witches. Please what drug was this jerk on when he wrote this junk.
lsd was legal then
it still a great song too listen to
Season is a dark song of forboding and very different than Donovan's other compositions. Listen to how well it fits at the end of the movie "To die for". To hear it at its blackest, check out the Vanilla Fudge version.
Sometimes a song is just a song, open to interpetation.I don't think that Donovan looses any sleep about what his lyrics mean or do not mean. Enjoy the song for what you think it means.
THE SONG IS ABOUT THE HALLOWEEN WITCHES GHOSTS AND WHATEVER PERVERT IS OUT THEIR TO TAKE ADVANTANGE OF STUPID PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN ALL OF IT,OH YEAH,THEY ARE CALLED IDIOTS-------
Way Cool.
BIte me Wolf Puppy
Great Song - Great trip. Where are all the 60's people this ad is focused on? Gets my attention.
Paranoia
Paronoa, you've got it. Clever how the comercial knitting ...a solitary activity to illustrate the point. May the windows phone will help restore "society" s in verbal conversation as a primary means of communication.
I heard the song again and went online to read the lyrics as it's been a very long time since I took LSD in the 60's and enjoyed Donovan and this song. I read all of the above comments one by one with great amusement. Get this: I am a 59 year old dentist and I do NOT own a cellphone! (I have no aps either.) I have not seen the commercial, but now I am very interested to see it in light of the last few comments before mine. By the way, why are people so vitriolic in their comments about one another. "Can't we all just get along?" I am still unsure as to the lyrics on this one. Perhaps Donovan was on LSD during this one and just put together a very cool, eerie song that had meaning only during his trip. I took an English Poetry class at UCSB in 1970 and we analyzed the holy heck out of the Beatles song: I am the Walrus. That was the topic for a week for 30 students and we came to the conclusion that nobody really could say what the song was about except the authors.
wow... you sure butchered those lyrics
"You've got to pick up every stitch" means all things are linked and if you "miss a stitch", miss a connection, as in knitting, everything will come undone - you will be lost.
I hope they put up my comment this time
123 hit the nail on the the head. Yes, we are all connected.
I think this song is about the record industry, and the crappyness of it. I'm not going to try and analyze it for you, just read the lyrics again with that in mind and see what you think. Well; not on this site anyways, these lyrics are twisted by the stupidity of some kid in his mom's attic.
I bet Fred likes chicken
... WELL IT'S ABOUT TO MEAN SOMETHIN'! THE GYPSIES AND WITCHES HAVE BEEN CASTING SPELLS TO MAKE US RUBES, OR JUST OBLIVIOUS TO ALL THE STITCHES BEING LAID DOWN TO DESTROY WE THE PEOPLE... JOIN THE DISCUSSION AND EDUCATE FOR THE END OF RUBE-ISM!WHAT'S A RUBE? SEE: Me & My Uncle Sam's Phans page on FACEBOOK, and LIKE not being a RUBE. "How many times must a man get robbed, on the same street, by the same people- before you call him a RUBE?" Hunter S. Thompson/ Bob Dylan combo! See More... Me & My Uncle Sam's Phans
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this is anti establishment as was everything back then. the examples were cliche double meanings. Beatniks were not Hippies and they were 2 different animals of thought and purpose. Even i am too young to know the total meaning behind the lingo Donovan wrote from, but i know for a fact he was no mindless druggie but was a soul of high morals and a character enlightenment pioneer of the day. He knows WHERE ITS AT BABY~ and this is simple song if your GROOVY...gee what's groovy mean? its a good vibration, a frequency, a state of mind and to understand it YOU GOT TO PICK UP EVERY STITCH...He did not JUST make this up like Lennon's Across the Universe ... Don't be so square...Think outside the box Taco... & remember to use your Cosmic Wheels.
It's all about feel with a little bit of message maybe. Realize that by the time this song was written, beatniks were passe; today we would say "hippies" out to make it rich; which both groups did by and large anyway considering their middle-class roots, especially as the power structure squashed progressive thinking with propaganda, money, and guns. Earlier versions of this song were more r&b sounding ala Smokey _ the final version is more druggy and mystical {which was in style}... think of similar Buffalo Springfield intros. Rejecting the beatniks was in many ways part of the of the hippie identity. Many of us floated on the margin between drugs and purposeful political action. Donovan was a flashy, romantic voice before it all became chaotic with Kent State and the Dodge revolution.
It's "rabbits rutting in a ditch". You know, rutting...multiplying, as rabbits are prone to do.
I've had this one running thru my mind alot lately. Best comments I've seen are that the "pick up every stitch" line refers to avoiding the effects of witchcraft (in which a "stitch" of clothing, hair, or other personal detritus can be used by a witch to cast a spell). For further insight, see the great Gus Van Sant movie To Die For, starring the at-the-time incomparably beautiful Nicole Kidman. The song plays at the end, and it's a helluva capper for a great movie.
Terry Reeds version was great. He was the opening act for Cream in 67 @ the Civic Ctr. Balto.,MD
Terry Reid in 1968
I heard this song played in a theater movie trailer. Hadn't heard it since 1968. Wondered at the meaning at the time, doesn't matter anymore.
The question is: is there any meaning to "rabbits running in the ditch." other than for the sake of the rythim and rhyme of the song?
Terrible, horrible job on these lyrics. Why would you bother to put them up if you weren't 100% sure they were accurate? And why doesn't this site verify?
Seen "Brittania"?
Can someone please tell me what is the meaning o you have to pick up every stictch pekae;