To: koan who wrote (11891 ) 5/24/2006 2:41:20 PM From: E. Charters Respond to of 78412 amazon.com The most famous such rock record jacket art is from the Jefferson Airplane's Crown of Creation, whose photo credits claim that this is a picture of the Hiroshima bomb (though it seems actually to be from a September 14, 1957 Nevada test). The title song was inspired by a passage in a well-known postholocaust science fiction novel, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, in which the new, mutant generation is praised as superior to normal humans. A nuclear cloud featured less prominently a year earlier on Grateful Dead. "Your work is to survive. Neither his kind, nor his kind of thinking will survive long. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled - they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from rocks, change is its very nature." You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go. Soon you'll obtain the stability you strive for. In the only place that it's granted, In a place among the fossils of our time! In loyalty to their kind, They cannot tolerate our minds! In loyalty to our kind, We cannot tolerate their obstruction! I will bring you gold apples And grapes made of rubies That shine in the eyes of A prince of the breeze Bright cascading crystals They dance in the sand dunes On the beach of no footprints To harpsichord tunes A throne of white ivory A gown of white lace Lies still in the magic Of a timeless place A friend of mine asked me Where has he been Where is he now? I said he's been set free Shares a little joke with the world somehow Sounded like he'd make a halo When I heard his laughter floating It's all for fun you know He said he just let go Shares a little joke with the world The world around you never catches up to you.