The first mushroom
makes room for my mind
to get inside the magic room
of Dionysus house.
Time is over,
war is over.
I am safe and sound
I live and love
I drink and eat
I can leap and bound.
Now I am dying all my life away
as well as I am being reborn
day after day
The second mushroom
makes room for my body
to get inside the tragic room
of Dionysus house.
Time is on,
war is all.
I am busy and sad
from mists of pain.
I rise and fall
like an endless rain.
Now I am doing what I have to do
fulfilling all my will of conquest
moon after moon.
The last mushroom
makes room for the unknown.
I get inside the secret room
of an unthinkable house,
in which I feel the grace
in which I get to be the space
from which I see the earth
exploding into a light
that the last mushroom aroused.
The last mushroom.
Atomic mushroom,
atomic mushroom,
atomic mushroom.
Musicada e gravada por Gilberto Gil no álbum Gilberto Gil (1970)