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Misc. Syd Barrett Lyrics

Below, are the combined lyrical witticisms of a certain Mr. Sydney Barrett (Roger Keith Barrett, actually). Much time and effort has been taken in producing this list, so if you find any errors (well, BIG errors) please e-mail me, and I'll see what I can do about it. - Michamilton (mhamilto@reed.edu)


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    FROM THE ALBUM "Barrett"

    
    BABY LEMONADE
     
    In the sad town
    cold iron hands clap
    the party of clowns outside
    rain falls in gray far away
    please, please, Baby Lemonade
    
    In the evening sun going down
    when the earth streams in, in the morning
    send a cage through the post
    make your name like a ghost
    please, please, Baby Lemonade
    
    I'm screaming, I met you this way
    you're nice to me like ice
    in the clock they sent through a washing machine
    come around, make it soon, so alone...
    please, please, Baby Lemonade
    
    In the sad town
    cold iron hands clap
    the party of clowns outside
    rain falls in gray far away
    please, please, Baby Lemonade
    
    In the evening sun going down
    when the earth streams in, in the morning
    send a cage through the post
    make your name like a ghost
    please, please, Baby Lemonade
    
    
    
    LOVE SONG 
    
    I knew a girl and I like her still
    she said she knew she would trust me
    and I her will...
    I said: OK baby, tell me what you'll be
    and I'll lay my head down and see what I see.
    By the time she was back
    by her open eyes
    I knew that I was in for a big surprise.
    
    I knew a girl and I like her still
    she said she knew she would trust me
    and I her will...
    I said: OK baby, tell me what you'll be
    and I'll lay my head down and see what I see.
    By the time she was back
    by her open eyes
    I knew that I was in for a big surprise.
    
    
    
    DOMINOES
    
    It's an idea, someday
    in my tears, my dreams
    don't you want to see her proof?
    Life that comes of no harm
    you and I, you and I and dominoes, the day goes by...
    
    You and I in place
    wasting time on dominoes
    a day so dark, so warm
    life that comes of no harm
    you and I and dominoes, time goes by...
    
    Fireworks and heat, someday
    hold a shell, a stick or play
    overheard a lark today
    losing when my mind's astray
    don't you want to know with your pretty hair
    stretch your hand, glad feel,
    in an echo for your way.
    
    It's an idea, someday...
    
    It's an idea, someday
    in my tears, my dreams
    don't you want to see her proof?
    Life that comes of no harm
    you and I, you and I and dominoes, the day goes by...
    
    
    
    IT IS OBVIOUS 
    
    It is obvious
    may I say, oh baby, that it is found on another plane?
    Yes I can creep into cupboards, sleep in the hall
    your stars - my stars, a simple cock bar
    only an impulse - pie in the sky
    mumble listen dolly
    drift over your mind - holly
    creep into bed when your head's on the ground
    she held the torch on the porch,
    she winked an eye
    
    Reason it is written on the brambles
    stranded on the spikes - my blood red, oh listen:
    remember those times I could call
    through the clear day
    time - be there...
    braver and braver, a handkerchief waver
    the louder you lips to a loud hailer
    growing together, they ('re) growing each either
    no wondering, stumbling, fumbling
    rumbling minds shot together,
    our minds shot together...
    
    So equally over a valley, a hill
    wood on quarry stood, each of us crying
    a velvet curtain of gray
    mark the blanket where the sparrows play
    and the trees by the waving corn stranded
    my legs move the last empty inches to you
    the softness, the warmth from the weather in suspense
    mote to a grog - the star a white chalk
    minds shot together, our minds shot together...
    
    
    
    RATS 
    
    Got it hit down
    spot knock inside a spider
    says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
    "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
    says: "That's love - All know it
    TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it...
    "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
    "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
    
    like the fall that brings me to
    I like the fall that brings me to
    I like the cord around sinew
    I make a cord around sinew
    
    Duck, the way to least is less
    Tea craving of the metal west
    'ell tomorrow's rain and test
    'ell tomorrow's rain and test
    Love an empty son and guess
    Love an empty son and guess
    pimples dangerous and blessed
    
    Heaving, arriving, tinkling
    mingling jets and statuettes
    seething wet we meeting fleck
    seething wet we meeting fleck
    lines and winds and crib and half
    each fair day I give you half
    of each fair day I give you half
    I look into your eyes and you,
    flathe in the sun for you...
    
    Bam, spastic, tactile engine
    heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham
    I'll have them, fried bloke
    broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho, paki, pufftle
    sploshette moxy, very smelly,
    cable, gable, splintra, channel
    top the seam he's taken off
    
    rats, rats lay down flat
    we don't need you, we act like that
    and if you think you're un-loved
    then we know about that...
    rats, rats, lay down flat!
    yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!
    
    
    
    MASIE 
    
    Maisie, Maisie, Maisie, Maisie...
    bad luck, bride of a bull
    strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light
    Maisie, his illuminous grin put her in a spin
    Maisie, lay in the hall
    with diamonds and emeralds
    Maisie, Maisie...
    bad luck - the bride of a bull
    
    Maisie lay in the wall with her emeralds
    and diamond brooch, beyond reproach
    bad luck - bride of a bull
    strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light...
    Maisie!
    
    
    
    
    GIGOLO  AUNT
    
    Grooving around in a trench coat
    with the satin on trail
    Seems to be all around in tin and lead pail, we pale
    Jiving on down to the beach
    to see the blue and the gray
    seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day!
    
    Will you please keep on the track
    'cause I almost want you back
    'cause I know what you are
    you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!
    Yes I know what you are
    you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!
    
    Heading down with the light, the dust in your way
    she was angrier than, than her watershell male
    life to this love to me - heading me down to me
    thunderbird shale
    seems to be all and it's rosy - it's a beautiful day!
    will you please keep on the track
    'cause I almost want you back
    'cause I know what you are
    you are a gigolo aunt
    
    Grooving on down in a knapsack superlative day
    some wish she move and just as she can move jiving away
    she made the scene should have been-superlative day
    everything's all and it's rosy, it's a beautiful day
    will you please keep on the track
    'cause I almost want you back
    'cause I know what you are
    you are a gigolo aunt...
    
    
    
     WAVING MY ARMS IN THE AIR/
     NEVER LIED TO YOU
     	(continuous)
    
    Waving my arms in the air
    love, my love, got no care
    no care, no, no, pressing my feet to the ground
    stand up right where you stand
    call to you and what do you do
    laying back in a chair?
    she's so high on the air
    she's so high on the air
    half and half, half and half
    all you have to do to call
    is hold her hand, stand a while
    and then smile and we'll understand
    yes we do - yes, yes we do!
    Oh what a girl I've got too!
    Oh what a girl I've got too!
    with her slinky look she held her tie to her hair
    (and I) could see everywhere
    no-one in the land, no-one
    no-one in the land, no-one
    but it rains on Saturday - cats and dogs in the way
    stormy day, hey, hey
    and you shouldn't try to be
    what you can't be
    and you shouldn't try to be
    what you can't be
    call to you and what do you do
    
    There will be shoulders pressing in the hall
    and I won't know if you're here at all
    there will be wine and drinking in the yard
    there won't be anybody very hard
    there will be lots of things that we can do
    and all and more will be for you
    everything I knew I tried with you
    but everything to you was never easy
    so I went ahead around my world
    I saw the things you do arriving by your side
    to see you looking too
    but I know this. I know, I never lied to you
    it's been just like you're gone
    for just one day for so long!
    It's been so hard to bear with you not there
    but though I think of you, the things you do
    when I'm with you, to be with you,
    to be alone...can only think:
    "Why I am here? What's meant to be?"
    
    
    
    WINED AND DINED 
    
    Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
    Girl was so kind.
    kind of love I'd never seen
    only last summer, it's not so long ago...
    just last summer, now musk winds blow...
    
    Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
    Girl was so kind.
    kind of love I'd never seen
    only last summer, it's not so long ago...
    just last summer, now musk winds blow...
    
    Chalk underfoot, life I should prove
    dancing in heat, our love and you...
    
    Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
    Girl was so kind.
    kind of love I'd never seen
    only last summer, it's not so long ago...
    just last summer, now musk winds blow...
    
    
    
    WOLFPACK 
    
    Howling the pack in formation appears
    diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead
    waving us back in formation,
    the pack in formation
    bowling they bat as a group
    and the leader is seen - so early...
    the pack on their backs, the fighters
    through misty the waving - the pack in formation
    far reaching waves
    on sight, shone right
    I lay as if in surround...
    all enmeshing, hovering...
    the milder I gaze
    all the animals laying trail
    beyond the bough winds
    mild the reflecting electricity eyes...
    tears, the life that was ours
    grows sharper and stronger away and beyond
    short wheeling - fresh spring
    gripped with blanched bones - moaned
    magnesium, proverbs and sobs...
    howling the pack in formation appears
    diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead
    waving us back in formation,
    the pack in formation...
    
    
    
    EFFERVESCING ELEPHANT
    
    An Effervescing Elephant
    with tiny eyes and great big trunk
    once whispered to the tiny ear
    the ear of one inferior
    that by next June he'd die, oh yeah!
    because the tiger would roam.
    The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home!
    and every time I hear a growl
    I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
    and I'll be really safe, you know
    the elephant he told me so."
    Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
    and the message was spread
    to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
    who wallowed in the mud and chewed
    his spicy hippo-plankton food
    and tended to ignore the word
    preferring to survey a herd
    of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
    And all the jungle took fright,
    and ran around for all the day and the night
    but all in vain, because, you see,
    the tiger came and said: "Who me?!
    You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.
    I'd much prefer something to chew
    and you're all to scant." oh yeah!
    He ate the Elephant
    
    


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    FROM THE ALBUM "The Madcap Laughs"

     
    TERRAPIN 
    
    I really love you and I mean you
    the star above you, crystal blue
    Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...
    
    I wouldn't see you and I love to
    I fly above you, yes I do
    well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...
    
    Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth
    the fins a luminous 
    fangs all 'round the clown
    is dark below the boulders hiding all
    the sunlight's good for us
    'Cause we're the fishes and all we do
    the move about is all we do
    well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...
    
    Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth
    the fins a luminous 
    fangs all 'round the clown
    is dark below the boulders hiding all
    the sunlight's good for us
    'Cause we're the fishes and all we do
    the move about is all we do
    well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...
    
    I really love you and I mean you
    the star above you, crystal blue
    Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...
    
    
    
    NO GOOD TRYING 
    
    It's no good trying to place your hand
    where I can't see because I understand
    that you're different from me
    yes I can tell
    that you can't be what you pretend
    and you're rocking me backwards
    and you're rocking towards the
    red and yellow mane of a stallion horse.
    
    It's no good trying to hold your love
    where I can't see because I understand
    that you're different from me
    yes I can tell
    that you can't be what you pretend
    the caterpillar hood won't cover the head of you
    know you should be home in bed.
    
    It's no good holding your sequin fan
    where I can't see because I understand
    that you're different from me
    yes I can tell
    that you can't be what you pretend
    yes you're spinning around and around in a car
    with electric lights flashing very fast...
    
    
    
    LOVE YOU 
    
    Honey love you, honey little,
    honey funny sunny morning
    love you more funny love in the skyline baby
    ice-cream 'scuse me,
    I've seen you looking good the other evening
    
    Oh, you dig it, had to smile just an hour or so
    (are) we in love like I think we be?
    It Ain't a long rhyme.
    It took ages to think
    I think I'll hurl it in the water, baby...
    
    Honey love you, honey little,
    honey funny sunny morning
    love you more funny love in the skyline baby
    ice-cream 'scuse me,
    I've seen you looking good the other evening
    
    Flaking you are an nice little one
    to put it all around, its just good
    I like it, hey hey hey
    S'pose some time that day
    whoopee! swinging along over across to me
    
    Honey love you, honey little,
    honey funny sunny morning
    love you more funny love in the skyline baby
    ice-cream 'scuse me,
    I've seen you looking good the other evening
    
    Goodtime rocker woman we'll stray our pieces
    little creepy we shine so sleepy,
    so whoopee!
    That's how you look...
    
    Honey love you, honey little,
    honey funny sunny morning
    love you more funny love in the skyline baby
    ice-cream 'scuse me,
    I've seen you looking good the other evening
    
    
    
    NO MAN'S LAND 
    
    You would hold your head up high
    you even try
    you would hold another hand:
    oh understand!
    They even see me under call
    we under all,
    we awful, awful, crawl
    to hear my hour
    come see me cry...
    
    Just searching you even try
    I can make you smile
    if it's there will you go there too?
    When I live I die!
    They even see me under call
    we under all, we awful, awful, crawl
    because of you, to see me be.
    
    (last verse mostly garbled....but you can pick out Tell me, Tell
    me, Tell me  Yippee  and also: Heavily Spaced.  According to
    legend, this verse was originally meant to be understood, but
    when they f**ked it up in the studio, Syd liked it and kept it
    that way...) - Psycho
    
    
    
    DARK GLOBE
    
    Oh where are you now
    pussy willow that smiled on this leaf?
    When I was alone you promised the stone from your heart
    my head kissed the ground
    I was half the way down, treading the sand
    please, please, lift a hand
    I'm only a person whose armbands beat
    on his hands, hang tall
    won't you miss me?
    Wouldn't you miss me at all?
    
    The poppy birds way
    swing twigs coffee brands around
    brandish her wand with a feathery tongue
    my head kissed the ground
    I was half the way down, treading the sand
    please, please, please lift the hand
    I'm only a person with Eskimo chain
    I tattooed my brain all the way...
    Won't you miss me?
    Wouldn't you miss me at all?
    
    
    
    HERE I GO
    
    This is a story 'bout a girl that I knew
    she didn't like my songs
    and that made me feel blue
    she said: "a big band is far better than you"...
    
    She don't rock 'n' roll, she don't like it
    she don't do the stroll, well she don't do it right
    well, ev'rythings wrong and my patience was gone
    when I woke one morning
    and remembered this song
    O-oh-oh, kinda catchy, I hoped
    that she would talk to me now
    and even allow me to hold her hand
    and forget that old band.
    
    I strolled around to her pad
    her light was off and that's bad
    her sister said that my girl was gone
    "But come inside, boy, and play, play, play me a song!"
    I said "Yeah! Here I go"
    She's kinda cute; don't you know,
    That after a while of seeing her smile
    I knew we could make it, make it in style!?
    
    So now I've got all I need
    She and I are in love, we've agreed
    she likes this song and my others too
    so now you see my world is...
    because of this tune!
    What a boon this tune!
    I tell you soon
    We'll be lying in bed, happily wed,
    and I won't think of that girl
    or what she said...
    
    
    
    OCTOPUS
    
    Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
    you have no word
    trip, trip to a dream dragon
    hide your wings in a ghost tower
    sails cackling at every plate we break
    cracked by scattered needles
    the little minute gong
    coughs and clears his throat
    madam you see before you stand
    hey ho, never be still
    the old original favorite grand
    grasshoppers green Herbarian band
    and the tune they play is "In Us Confide"
    so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
    you have no word
    Please leave us here
    close our eyes to the octopus ride!
    Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
    isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
    meant even less to me than I thought
    with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
    clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
    well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
    hey ho, huff the Talbot
    "Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo
    it's true in their tree they cried
    Please leave us here
    close our eyes to the octopus ride!
    The madcap laughed at the man on the border
    hey ho, huff the Talbot
    the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
    they'll never put me in their bag
    the seas will reach and always seep
    so high you go, so low you creep
    the wind it blows in tropical heat
    the drones they throng on mossy seats
    the squeaking door will always squeak
    two up, two down we'll never meet
    so merrily trip forgo my side
    Please leave us here
    close our eyes to the octopus ride!
    
    
    
    GOLDEN HAIR
    (These lyrics are originally from "Chamber Music" by James Joyce (1907) 
     
    Lean out your window, golden hair
    I heard you singing in the midnight air
    my book is closed, I read no more
    watching the fire dance, on the floor
    I've left my book, I've left my room
    
    For I heard you singing through the gloom
    singing and singing, a merry air
    lean out the window, golden hair...
    
    
    
    LONG GONE
    
    She was long gone, long, long gone
    she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
    the larger her hand 'till no one understands
    why for so long she'd been gone.
    
    And I stood very still by the window sill
    and I wondered for those I love still
    I cried in my mind where I stand behind
    the beauty of love's in her eyes...
    
    She was long gone, long, long gone
    she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
    the larger her hand 'till no one understands
    why for so long she'd been gone.
    
    And I borrowed the page
    from a leopard's cage
    and I prowled in the evening sun's glaze
    her head lifted high to the light in the sky
    the opening dawn on her face...
    
    She was long gone long, long gone
    she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
    the larger her hand 'till no one understands
    why for so long she'd been gone.
    
    And I stood very still by the window sill
    and I wondered for those I love still
    I cried in my mind where I stand behind
    the beauty of love's in her eyes...
    
    She was long gone, long, long gone
    she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
    the larger her hand 'till no one understands
    why for so long she'd been gone.
    
    She was long gone long, long gone.
    
    
    
    SHE TOOK A LONG COLD LOOK
     
    She took a long cold look at me
    and smiled and gazed all over my arm
    she loves to see me get down to ground
    she hasn't time just to be with me
    her face between all she means to be
    to be extreme, just to be extreme
    a broken pier on the wavy sea
    she wonders why for all she wants to see...
    But I got up and I stomped around
    and hid the piece where the trees touch the ground...
    
    The end of truth that lay out the time
    spent lazing here on a painting dream
    a mile or more in a foreign clime
    to see farther inside of me.
    
    And looking high up into the sky
    I breathe as the water streams over me...
    
    
    
    FEEL
    
    You feel me
    away far too empty, oh so alone!
    I want to go home
    Oh find me inside of a nocturne - the blonde
    how I love you to be by my side
    they wail...
    the crowd on her side
    she straggled the bridge by the water...
    
    She misses her crawl
    far ley grew
    heady aside in a dell
    inside an eye be the lonely one, my bride
    how I leave on the waddling wheel
    they flail...
    a gasp shringing
    a bad bell's ringing
    the angel - the daughter...
    
    You feel me...
    
    
    
    IF IT'S IN YOU 
    
    Yes I'm thinking of this, yes I am
    puddle town, Tom was the underground
    hold you tighter so close, yes you are
    please hold on to the steel rail
    
    colonel with gloves
    he isn't loved on 'Sundays Mail'
    all the fives crock Henrietta
    she's mean go-getter
    gotta write her a letter.
    
    Did I wink of this, I am
    yum, yummy, yum, don't, yummy, yum, yom, yom...
    Yes, I'm thinking of this, in steam
    skeleton kissed to the steel rail
    
    fleas in Pamela
    chugging along with a funnel of steam
    all the fives crock Henrietta
    she's mean go-getter
    gotta write her a letter...
    
    
    
    LATE NIGHT
    
    When I woke up today
    and you weren't there to play
    then I wanted to be with you
    when you showed me your eyes
    whispered love at the skies
    then I wanted to stay with you
    inside me I feel alone and unreal
    and the way you kiss will always be
    a very special thing to me...
    
    When I lay still at night seeing
    stars high and light
    then I wanted to be with you
    when the rooftops shone dark
    all alone (I) saw a spark
    spark of love just to stay with you
    inside me I feel alone and unreal
    and the way you kiss will always be
    a very special thing to me...
    
    If I mention your name
    turn around on a chain
    then the sky opens for you
    when we grew very tall
    when I saw you so small
    then I wanted to stay with you
    inside me I feel alone and unreal
    and the way you kiss will always be
    a very special thing to me...
    
    


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    FROM THE ALBUM "Opel"

     
    
    OPEL 
    
    On a distant shore, miles from land
    stands the ebony totem in ebony sand
    a dream in a mist of gray...
    on a far distant shore...
    
    The pebble that stood alone
    and driftwood lies half buried
    warm shallow waters sweep shells
    so the cockles shine...
    
    A bare winding carcass, stark
    shimmers as flies scoop up meat, an empty way...
    dry tears...
    crisp flax squeaks tall reeds
    make a circle of gray in a summer way, around man
    stood on ground...
    
    I'm trying
    I'm trying to find you!
    To find you
    I'm living, I'm giving,
    To find you, To find you,
    I'm living, I'm living,
    I'm trying, I'm giving
    
    
    
    CLOWNS AND JUGGLERS
    
    Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
    you have no word
    trip, trip to a dream dragon
    hide your wings in a ghost tower
    sails cackling at every plate we break
    was cracked by scattered needles
    the little minute gong
    coughs and clears his throat
    madam you see before you stand
    hey ho, never be still
    the old original favorite grand
    grasshoppers green Herbarian band
    and the tune they play is "In Us Confide"
    so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
    you have no word
    Please leave us here
    close our eyes to the octopus ride!
    
    Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
    isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
    meant even less to me than I thought
    with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
    clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
    the madcap laughed at the man on the border
    hey ho, huff the Talbot
    the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
    they'll never put me in their bag
    the raging seas will always seep
    so high you go, so low you creep
    the wind it blows in tropical heat
    the drones they throng on mossy seats
    the squeaking door will always squeak
    two up, two down we'll never meet
    Please leave us here
    close our eyes to the octopus ride!
    
    Sit up, touching hips
    to a madcap galloping chase
    "Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo
    it's true in their tree they cried
    Please leave us here
    close our eyes to the octopus ride!
    The madcap laughed at the man on the border
    hey ho, huff the Talbot
    
    
    RATS
    
    (see "Barrett")
    
    
    
    GOLDEN HAIR
    
    (see "The Madcap Laughs")
    
    
    
    DOLLY ROCKER
    
    (Dolly Rocker... It's called Dolly Rocker... It's an old make of dress...
     Well, months old, you know.. that sort of thing)
    
    I know a sweet girl
    she done went out and paid for me
    was a sweet girl
    after five we went for tea
    She seen a Dolly Rocker
    She want a girl, she got her
    I wanna see her, I know I do
    I love you darling, all for you.
    
    You want to meet Pearl?
    she's as cute as a squirrel's nut.
    She done seen me
    said she thought she got the lot.
    She's a Dolly Rocker
    want to wait 'till I got her
    said she knew I know we know I do
    said she gotta see me lonely with you.
    
    Oceans may travel, away too long
    senses in the gravel, to see yourself at home
    	nice to be at home
    all I'll ever do forever
    all my life, you see, when you got her
    all I know, you know, I show you, baby
    through your head push to you, baby
    is a Dolly Rocker.
    She know what she got her
    She seen a Dolly Rocker
    She seen a Dolly Rocker
    
    
    
    
    UNTITLED WORDS
     
    (We're running)
    
    Stained, glaucous, glycerine, gold, goat, clover
    gold, local stocks, type, food, wild, national, lake, flag,
    valve, gyroscope, sect
    heat, helium, lead, bare, state, invention, medieval
    refraction, faction, ultra-action,
    hunter, interest, bullet, market...
    
    Loads, liquids, neon, heater, jaws, jungle
    mains, signal, knives, kitchen
    ingot, lovely, mirror, mold
    Mycenaean, moat, poppy, rubber,
    radar, rags, sugar, teak
    silver, poke, tin, beetroot,
    carrot, ebony, fruit, copper, silk...
    
    Carpet, distant, pigmy, hid, pack,
    timber, pudding, straw
    raindrops, spattering, ramps
    chameleon, prairie, pods, trigger
    museum, scales, square, ultra, out of map, vent
    volcano, vain, wreck, tactic
    tidal, arches, valley, hand
    inflect, impression, loom, last, molten
    you gamma, meeting
    lighting, signal, island, coral-cold
    
    
    
    WINED AND DINED
    
    (see "Barrett")
    
    
    
    SWAN LEE (SILAS LANG)
    
    Swan Lee got up at the Running Foot pow-wow,
    heading from the fire to his waiting canoe.
    Chattering Squaw untied the wigwam door,
    the chief blew smoke rings two by two!
    
    The land in silence stands...
    
    Swan Lee, his boat by the bank in the darkness,
    loosened the rope in the creek is entwined.
    A feather from the wing of a wild young eagle,
    pointed to the land where his fortune he'd find
    
    The land in silence stands
    
    Swan Lee paddled on from the land of his fathers,
    his eyes scanned the undergrowth on either side.
    From the shore hung a hot, heavy, creature infested
    tropic, Swan Lee had a bow by his side
    
    The land in silence stands
    
    Swan Lee kept time, half on land, half on water,
    Grizzly bear and raccoon his fare.
    He followed his ears to the great water fall,
    Swan Lee knew deep down that his squaw  was there!
    
    The land in silence stands....
    
    Suddenly the rush of the mighty great thunder,
    confronted Swan Lee as his song he sang,
    In the dawn, with his squaw, he was battling homewards
    It was all written down by Long Silas Lang.
    
    The land in silence stands...
    The land in silence stands...
    The land in silence stands.
    
    
    
    LET'S SPLIT
    
    Everything about,
    about to go out,
    me out, you out,
    yes and everything is out
    about, out...
    out, out, out, out, out, out,
    Let's split!
    I'm telling you this is it!
    
    Everything is down,
    and hound, hound, hound
    back down, down, down
    even everything is down
    abound and down,
    down, down, down, down, down, down
    Let's split!
    Tellin' you this is it!
    
    Nobody is right tonight,
    night, height, right, tight,
    it isn't right
    Me out, you out 
    And everything is out
    out, out, out, out, out, out
    Let's split!
    
    
    
    
    
    
    WOULDN'T YOU MISS ME (DARK GLOBE)
    
    (see "The Madcap Laughs")
    
    
    
    MILKY WAY
    
    What'd you ever say today when you're in the milky way
    
    oh tell me please
    if I met you - I told you what to do
    seems a while
    since I could smile the way you do...
    
    how many times, if I try, if I may,
    when you're in the milky way
    
    half of your time -beside me only atmosphere
    since I could smile the way you do...
    
    What can anyone mean to you
    standing in the milky way
    
    take life easy
    Why so empty...?
    I told you - I can tell you
    what to do - when I hold you
    and I tell you "I love you"
    I feel that I'm way you do...
    
    Give a grasp of life today
    when you're in the milky way
    oh, try to please! Knock on wood of the trees
    glad you, mold you, mold you and hold you
    means five miles
    and everyway for you...
    
    


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    BOB DYLAN BLUES
    (unreleased)
    
    I've got the Bob Dylan Blues
    I've got the Bob Dylan Blues
    My hair and my hat's in a messa
    But I don't give a damn about that!
    
    
    
    ROOFTOP IN A THUNDERSTORM ROW MISSING THE POINT
    (unreleased)
     
    With yellow, red and roomy food, and quivered
    crouching on a golden cushion
    undressed himself to disappear
    through an infinity of pleasure
    and smiled to free the running me
    with "Am I my brother's keeper?"
    his meek hand on devils gloves
    shaping running blood.
    
    The prophecy, to ricreate the truth
    in visions of a seasonal mood
    in truth, the only sight he saw
    lay hidden in the bathroom door
    and spat on the rug
    as high is high, so low is low
    and that's the end of it.
    
    
    
    TWO OF A KIND 
    (on Peel Sessions)
    
    Open your eyes and don't be blind
    can't you see we're two of a kind?
    I've got to say this, I hope you don't mind
    I love you, we're two of a kind
    
    Just ask yourself and you will find
    we go together, we're two of a kind
    no use protesting, be resigned
    baby you know, we're two of a kind
    
    I knew it when I saw you
    I felt it a little more when
    I talked with you at first
    all my blues dispersed
    I couldn't disguise
    my complete surprise
    when you were feeling it too
    I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you...
    
    Open your eyes and don't be blind
    can't you see we're two of a kind?
    I've got to say this, I hope you don't mind
    I love you, we're two of a kind
    
    
    
    


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    SYD'S PINK FLOYD SONGS

    FROM THE ALBUM "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"

     
    
    ASTRONOMY DOMINE
    
    Lime and limpid green, a second scene
    A fight between the blue you once knew.
    Floating down, the sound resounds
    Around the icy waters underground.
    Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
    Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.
    
    Blinding signs flap
    Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
    Stairway scared and death rules there 
    Lime and limpid green, the sounds around the icy waters under
    Lime and limpid green, the sounds around the icy waters underground.
    
    
    
    LUCIFER SAM
    
    Lucifer Sam, Siam cat.
    Always sitting by your side
    Always by your side.
    That cat's something I can't explain.
    
    Jennifer Gentle you're a witch.
    You're the left side
    He's the right side.
    Oh, no!
    That cat's something I can't explain.
    
    Lucifer go to sea.
    Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat.
    Somewhere, anywhere.
    That cat's something I can't explain.
    
    At night prowling sifting sand.
    Hiding around on the ground.
    He'll be found when you're around.
    That cat's something I can't explain.
    
    
    
    MATILDA MOTHER
    
    There was a king who ruled the land.
    His majesty was in command.
    With silver eyes the scarlet eagle
    Showers silver on the people.
    Oh Mother, tell me more.
    
    Why'd'ya have to leave me there
    Hanging in my infant air waiting?
    You only have to read the lines
    They're scribbly black and everything shines.
    
    Across the stream with wooden shoes
    With bells to tell the king the news
    A thousand misty riders climb up
    Higher once upon a time.
    Wandering and dreaming
    The words have different meaning.
    Yes they did.
    
    For all the time spent in that room
    The doll's house, darkness, old perfume
    And fairy stories held me high on
    Clouds of sunlight floating by.
    Oh Mother, tell me more
    Tell me more.
    
    
    
    FLAMING 
    
    Alone in the clouds all blue
    Lying on an eiderdown.
    Yippee! You can't see me
    But I can you.
    
    Lazing in the foggy dew
    Sitting on a unicorn.
    No fair, you can't hear me
    But I can you.
    
    Watching buttercups cup the light
    Sleeping on a dandelion.
    Too much, I won't touch you
    But then I might.
    
    Screaming through the starlit sky
    Traveling by telephone.
    Hey ho, here we go
    Ever so high.
    
    Alone in the clouds all blue
    Lying on an eiderdown.
    Yippee! You can't see me
    But I can you.
    
    
    
    THE GNOME
    
    I want to tell you a story
    About a little man
    If I can.
    A gnome named Grimble Grumble.
    And little gnomes stay in their homes.
    Eating, sleeping, drinking their wine.
    
    He wore a scarlet tunic,
    A blue green hood,
    It looked quite good.
    He had a big adventure
    Amidst the grass
    Fresh air at last.
    
    Wining, dining, biding his time.
    And then one day - hooray!
    Another way for gnomes to say
    Hoooooooooray.
    
    Look at the sky, look at the river
    Isn't it good?
    Look at the sky, look at the river
    Isn't it good?
    Winding, finding places to go.
    And then one day - hooray!
    Another way for gnomes to say
    Hoooooooooray.
    Hooooooooooooooray.
    
    
    
    CHAPTER 24
    
    A movement is accomplished in six stages
    And the seventh brings return.
    The seven is the number of the young light
    It forms when darkness is increased by one.
    Change returns success
    Going and coming without error.
    Action brings good fortune.
    Sunset.
    
    The time is with the month of winter solstice
    When the change is due to come.
    Thunder in the other course of heaven.
    Things cannot be destroyed once and for all.
    Change returns success
    Going and coming without error.
    Action brings good fortune.
    Sunset, sunrise.
    
    A movement is accomplished in six stages
    And the seventh brings return.
    The seven is the number of the young light
    It forms when darkness is increased by one.
    Change returns success
    Going and coming without error.
    Action brings good fortune.
    Sunset, sunrise.
    
    
    
    THE SCARECROW
    
    The black and green scarecrow as everyone knows
    Stood with a bird on his hat and straw everywhere.
    He didn't care.
    He stood in a field where barley grows.
    
    His head did no thinking
    His arms didn't move except then the wind cut up
    Rough and mice ran around on the ground
    He stood in a field where barley grows.
    
    The black and green scarecrow is sadder than me
    But now he's resigned to his fate
    'Cause life's not unkind - he doesn't mind.
    He stood in a field where barley grows.
    
    
    
    BIKE
    
    I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
    It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good.
    I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
    
    You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
    I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.
    
    I've got a cloak. It's a bit of a joke.
    There's a tear up the front. It's red and black, I've had it for months.
    If you think it could look good, then I guess it should.
    
    You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
    I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.
    
    I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house.
    I don't know why. I call him Gerald.
    He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
    
    You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
    I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.
    
    I've got a clan of gingerbread men.
    Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men.
    Take a couple if you wish. They're on the dish.
    
    You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
    I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.
    
    I know a room of musical tunes.
    Some rhyme, some ching. Most of them are clockwork.
    Let's go into the other room and make them work.
    
    


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    JUGBAND BLUES
    (from the album "Saucerful of Secrets")
    
    It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
    And I'm much obliged to you for making it clear
    That I'm not here.
    And I never knew the moon could be so big
    And I never knew the moon could be so blue
    And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
    And brought me here instead dressed in red
    And I'm wondering who could be writing this song.
    
    I don't care if the sun don't shine
    And I don't care if nothing is mine
    And I don't care if I'm nervous with you
    I'll do my loving in the winter.
    
    And the sea isn't green
    And I love the queen
    And what exactly is a dream
    And what exactly is a joke.
    
    
    ARNOLD LAYNE
    (single)
    
    Arnold Layne had a strange hobby
    Collecting clothes
    Moonshine, washing line
    They suit him fine
    On the wall, hung a tall mirror
    Distorted view, see through baby blue
    Oh, Arnold Layne
    It's not the same, takes two to know
    Two to know, two to know -
    Why can't you see?
    Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
    
    Now he's caught - a nasty sort of person.
    They gave him time
    Doors clang - chain gang - he hates it
    Oh, Arnold Layne
    It's not the same, takes two to know
    Two to know, two to know
    Why can't you see?
    Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
    
    Don't do it again
    
    
    
    CANDY AND A CURRANT BUN (LET'S ROLL ANOTHER ONE)
    (single)
    
    Oh my, girl sitting in the sun
    Go buy, candy and a currant bun
    I like, to see you run
    lay back......
    
    Oooh, don't talk to me
    Please, just fuck with me
    Please, you know I'm feeling frail
    
    It's true, sun shining very bright
    It's you, I'm gonna love tonight
    Ice cream, tastes good in the afternoon
    Ice cream, tastes good if you eat it soon
    
    Oooh, don't touch me child
    Please you know you drive me wild
    Please you know I'm feeling frail
    
    Don't try another cat
    Don't go where other -
    you must know why
    I'm very very very frail
    
    
    Oh my, girl sitting in the sun
    Go buy, candy and a currant bun
    I like, to see you run
    Lay back......
    
    
    
    APPLES AND ORANGES 
    (single)
    
    Got a flip-top pack of cigarettes in her pocket
    Feeling good at the top
    Shopping in sharp shoes
    Walking in the sunshine town -
    feeling very cool
    But the butchers and the bakers in the supermarket stores
    Getting everything she wants from the supermarket stores
    Apples and oranges
    Apples and oranges
    
    Cornering neatly she trips up sweetly
    To meet the people
    She's on time again
    And then
    I catch her by the eye 
    then I stop and have to think
    What a funny thing to do 'cause I'm feeling very pink
    Apples and oranges
    Apples and oranges
    
    I love she
    She loves me
    See you
    
    See you
    
    Thought you might like to know
    I'm the lorry driver man
    She's on the run
    Down by the river side
    feeding ducks by the afternoon tide
    (quack quack)
    Apples and oranges
    Apples and oranges
    Apples and oranges
    
    
    
    SCREAM THY LAST SCREAM
    (unreleased)
    
    Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,
    plan, plan your pointers, point your pointers,
    waddle with apples
    to crunchy Mrs. Stores,
    she'll be scrubbing bottles on all fours...
    
    Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,
    fling your arms madly
    old lady with a daughter,
    flat top of houses, mouses, houses,
    piddle and diddle sitting fat...
    
    watching the telly to all hours, silly child
    fling your arms madly
    old lady with a daughter
    
    Scream thy last scream...
    
    
    
    VEGETABLE MAN
    (unreleased)
    
    In yellow shoes 
    I get the blues,
    So I walk the street with my plastic feet
    with blue velvet trousers make me feel pink.
    Theres a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
    
    In my paisley shirt,
    I look a jerk,
    and my turquoise wasitcoat is quite outta sight.
    But oh, oh, my haircut looks so bad....
    Vegetable man! Where are you?
    
    So I change my gear,
    and I bugger my knees
    and I cover them up with the latest cuts
    My pants and socks are all in a box
    It does take long to find darn old socks
    The watch, 
    black watch, 
    my watch 
    with a black face
    and a date in a little hole
    
    and all the luck,
    its what I got,
    Its what I wear,
    Its what you see,
    It must be me,
    Its what I am!
    Vegetable man! Where are you?
    
    Ah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah
    Hah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah - oh!
    I've been looking all over the place
    for a place for me
    But it ain't anywhere
    It just ain't anywhere.
    
    Vegetable man, Vegetable man,
    Vegetable man. Vegetable man,
    Vegetable man, Vegetable man,
    
    He's the kind of fella you just gotta see if you can,
    Vegetable man.
    
    
    
    
    SEE EMILY PLAY
    (Single)
    
    Emily tries but misunderstands, ah ooh
    She often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow
    There is no other day
    Let's try it another way
    You'll lose your mind and play
    Free games for may
    See Emily play
    Soon after dark Emily cries, ah ooh
    Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow
    There is no other day
    Let's try it another way
    You'll lose your mind and play
    Free games for may
    See Emily play
    Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah ooh
    Float on a river forever and ever, Emily
    There is no other day
    Let's try it another way
    You'll lose your mind and play
    Free games for may
    See Emily play
    
    
    
    
    LUCY LEAVE
    (unreleased)
    
    Please fall away from me, Lucy,
    oh, go little girl.
    See that I'm so broken up about you, Lucy,
    Mean treating me and done me harm, Lucy,
    Being in love with you and your charms, Lucy,
     oh, go little girl
    I'm in love with you, Lucy,
    You got my heart, you got my heart, Oh no,
    You tear me apart, you just won't let me go,
    You hold on so tight, so tight I just can't breathe,
    Now Lucy leave, Lucy...
    
    Leave when I ask you to leave, little girl,
    Please fall away from me, little girl,
    yeah, go little girl.
    See that I'm so broke up about you, Lucy, 
    Yeah, Go...
    
    
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