| Syd Barrett – Gigolo Aunt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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| Syd Barrett – Gigolo Aunt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think you'd be right, alloquia, in assuming that Black&GreenAchilles is fucking insane. That interpretation makes no sense. The lyrics to this song are fairly straight forward and not nearly as amstract as some of his others (ie: Dominoes - can't begin to make sense of it. Perhaps I do not know enough about Syd yet). |
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| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Syd didn't "become" insane, and he didn't "lose his mind." He was always insane and he never had a "mind" as people like to call it." -- steve82c I think insanity could be described as a twisted or illusionary sense of reality, and interpreting events in one's life through distorted glasses. Anyone who reads Syd Barret lyrics and truly understand them must be able to see the hypocrisy in calling him 'insane'. The problem for us is his perception of reality is beyond what any of us could imagine. Thus, he was "a genius" (Mooey). Again, it was his deviation from the masses of society, and his ultra-clear view of everything, something so alien to the average person, that set him apart. Our inability to understand things on his level does not make him insane. However, some will say "ohh, but he was on so many drugs that there is no way you're right." This is not the case. It was the drugs that made Syd descend to the breakdown because of societal pressure, and perhaps because he was so different, and so ingenious as compared to everyone else. He was a genius with vision that not many can begin to comprehend. His lyrics are indicative of clear thought at its greatest height. "And what exactly is a dream?" |
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