Absolutely Free (song) which is explained by Zappa in the spoken introduction to the song ("The first word in this song is discorporate. It means to leave your body"). "Discorporate" plays heavily in Robert Heinlein's science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", which was very popular among hippies and provided the muse for several songs by Jefferson Airplane. The lyrics also reference the song "Mellow Yellow" by singer-songwriter Donovan, who is often associated with the hippie movement ("The dreams as they live them are all mellow yellow"). On some pressings of the album, especially on earlier releases, two lines of the lyrics
Shades of yellow and named after the fruit. The color "lemon" is a representation of the color of the outer skin of a lemon. The first recorded use of "lemon" as a color name in English was in 1598. Maximum yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1926 to 1944. The color mellow yellow is displayed at right. "Mellow yellow" was first used as a color name in English in 1948 when it was formulated as one of the colors on the Plochere color list. The source of this color is the "Plochere Color System", a color system formulated in 1948 that is