Beatnics and Politicians each have their own point of view. The fact that incense and peppermints are "meaningless nouns" may means that these words are strung together and aren't intended to mean anything in particular. It is used in the second verse to tell the listener to take a look at him/herself. "Tune on, tune in, drop out" is a phrase Timothy Leary used to promote the use of LSD. "Who cares what games we choose, little to win and nothing to lose" means that it doesn't matter what types of drugs a person uses - only that you don't gain much by doing or not doing the drugs. In the first phrase, we are told innocense and good sense are nice, but they can disable you. Peppermints are used to mask the smoke on a person's breath. Incense is often burned to mask the smell of marijuana. The psychedelic was in full swing when Incense and Peppermint became popular.
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