What does the song “Incense and Peppermints” mean?

At the time this song was released we were all pretty much stoned all the time! LOL!

Now (I’m much older and not high) it makes no sense at all!!! But still a great tune!!!!!!!!!!

Good sense, innocence, cripplin’ and kind.

Dead kings, many things I can’t define.

Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind.

Incense and peppermints, the color of thyme.

Who cares what games we choose?

Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns.

Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around.

Look at yourself, look at yourself,

Yeah, yeah.

Look at yourself, look at yourself,

Yeah, yeah,

Yeah, yeah.

Tune-a by the **** world in two.

Throw your pride to one side, It’s the least you can do.

Beatniks and politics, nothing is new.

A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view.

Who cares what games we choose?

Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Good sense, innocence, crippled and kind.

Dead kings and many things I can’t define.

Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind.

Incense and peppermints, the color of thyme.

Who cares what games we choose?

Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Incense, peppermints, incense, peppermints.

Sha-la-la, sha-la-la….

Incense And Peppermints

I think it’s about smoking ganj, incense to cover the smell and peppermints to hide it on your breath…

Everything in it is a smell, taste or image of the 60’s, very contemporary, the song is a snapshot of it’s time (I was there, and a friend booked them for his frat at WPI).

"Mean Mistreater" – Grand Funk Railroad "Mean Street" – Van Halen "Mean Town Blues" – Johnny Winter "Mean Woman Blues" – Spencer Davis Group "Woman Why You Treat Me So Mean" – Luther "Sɴᴀκᴇᴅ Boy" Johnson BQ – "Mean Mr. Mustard" – The Beatles

It was the drug filled sixties, so who really knows? Strawberry Alarm Clock probably did not have a clue!

Back in the time (1960 s) songs were a result of many (drugs) resolution and there are many examples of what this came with, E.G. Strawberry fields forever – Beatles, Innagadadavida – Iron butterfly (originally going to be "In a garden of flowers" or so, Sister Morphine Rolling Stones. Lucy in the sky with diamonds _If you really what to know the meaning the only way is going back to the time and be in the shoes of the composer at the moment he(she) was high to se what he (she saw) and result in the lyrics of a song of the hippie (or hippy) is a member of a liberal counterculture, originally a youth movement that started in the United States and the United Kingdom during the mid-1960s

i’m not sure

but i found you some information about it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense_and_Peppermin…

i always go to songmeanings.com.

its a good place to check