Wear Your Love Like Heaven

Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Donovan
1967

I remember first hearing this song on the FM 'Album Oriented Rock' radio stations during the mid-70s. It was a revelation, because usually, if the station played anything by Donovan, it was 'Sunshine Superman', and more rarely, 'Atlantis'. 

'Wear Your Love' remains one of the quintessential songs of the Psychedelic era.

'Wear Your Love Like Heaven' was a track on Donovan's 1967 double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden. In the U.S. the album was repackaged into two individual albums, one titled Wear Your Love Like Heaven, the other, For Little Ones. 

The song came to fore of pop culture in 2002 when it was used in an episode of The Simpsons titled 'Weekend at Burnsie's' (Homer is prescribed medical marijuana, and goes off on a psychedelic 'trip').

Color in sky, Prussian blue
Scarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Color sky, Havana lake
Color sky, rose carmethene
Alizarin crimson
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All our race proud and free
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
Carmine, carmine