| Syd Barrett – Maisie Lyrics | 10 months ago |
| @[Lizzy1:47618] Great comment! | |
| Syd Barrett – Arnold Layne Lyrics | 10 months ago |
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'It takes two to know, two to know.... why can't you see?' This is poignant. In one of the two videos made for Arnold Layne Syd shouts the last line and points at the camera. What he conveys is that if you call someone a pervert, chances are you are one yourself. It's as if he says: look at yourself first, before pointing a finger. I think where Syd sings 'A nasty sort of person' it's not Syd's opinion; it's society's. |
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| Syd Barrett – No Man's Land Lyrics | 10 months ago |
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It's been mentioned before but the lyrics are most likely: "We all fall, awful crawl to Hermia". Hermia is a character from Shakespeare's a Midsummer night's dream. I believe Syd played a part in the play when he was in school. Too bad sh***y lyrics can't be corrected on this site. |
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| Syd Barrett – No Man's Land Lyrics | 10 months ago |
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@[MrOwens:47617] I think it's: we all fall, awful crawl to Hermia. When you look at the next line, it makes more sense. |
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| Syd Barrett – No Man's Land Lyrics | 10 months ago |
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Rob Chapman, the guy who wrote the Barrett lyrics book, posted the speedy part: "Tell me tell me tell me you need need me so well shut your shop shut your shop listen the horizon glows like a dove and I see from a mild shiny ocean choke and weave in a spinning well Pick up and tell me love open your door musty sugar with dust making stale it crows the near day the cockerel listen listen short choose of play freedom of emotions and cracking my spleen cos we be us is wishing pick up and tell me love open your door Find and all I wish is shiver and whine the mean could no notice to be as they be give a lot listen listen the grave sings you her song heavily spaced all the crockery china war and spreading a spinning wheel Opening what a roll but you open the door some time long ago Stream cool shallow water seen a lot seen a lot…" |
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| Pink Floyd – The Gnome Lyrics | 11 months ago |
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It's a play on the book The Little Grey Men, a childhood favourite of Syd. There is no gnome called 'Grimble Grumble in it - the gnomes in the book have different names - but there is a giant named Cruel Giant Grum. Pink Floyd had issues with the estate of Hilaire Belloc because they used lines from his book Cautionary Tales, they changed the lyrics and it became Matilda Mother. So perhaps that's why The Gnome wasn't directly quoted from The Little Grey Men. On Syd's funeral an excerpt from the book was read. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Gnome Lyrics | 11 months ago |
| Really don't know if it is Syd actually. I thought it might be Roger Waters. He is listed as doing backing vocals together with Rick Wright. | |
| Pink Floyd – Scream Thy Last Scream Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| telly time' it is. Which is a very British colloquialism. | |
| Pink Floyd – Scream Thy Last Scream Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I think it's 'crunchy Mrs. Stores'. | |
| Syd Barrett – Wolfpack Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Syd was in the boys scouts, which usually have animal names. I think he compares his memories of being in the scouts with a real pack of wolves. Diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead They play cards, fog sets in, scary ghost stories are told. 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 The leader wakes them up early, the group is still asleep. 'Waving us back in formation'. I see young boys being young boys and the leader occasionally trying to group them back 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 Animal spotting. You need to lay away from the winds or the animals smell you. In the dark animal eyes reflect. Tears, the life that was ours Grows sharper and stronger away and beyond I find this the most touching line. This is why I think it's about a happy memory. That life is gone and the memory becomes more painful as it drifts further away from him. Short wheeling fresh spring Gripped with blanched bones moaned Magnesium, proverbs and sobs I'm not sure what this means. It reads as a stream of consciousness. Word association: the blanched bones are of animals they've found, short wheeling is riding a bike on the back wheel, which is what children do. It's spring again. Magnesium could be the stick they use to make the fire. Proverbs, could be a reference to the bible or the sayings they learn in boys scouts. I hesitate to put a literal meaning to this powerful song because it takes away from the associative and poetic nature of the lyrics. I think it's best to just listen and feel whatever you feel. |
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| Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Here's a clue: Syd Barrett was a boy scout. | |
| Pink Floyd – Scream Thy Last Scream Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Some mistakes I think I made, I've listened to the BBC recording with Syd singing and: - It's most likely 'Flat tops of house' not 'Flap' - It sounds like 'sitting sat sat' (not fat fat) |
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| Pink Floyd – Scream Thy Last Scream Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I think these lyrics come close: Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket Blam blam your pointers point you’re pointed Waddle with apples to crunchy Mrs. Stores She'll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter Flap top of houses, mouses, houses Fittle and tittle of sitting fat fat Watching the telly till all hours, telly time Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter (Syd can be heard saying in the background: oh sock it to me) Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket Blam blam your pointers point you’re pointed Waddle with apples to crunchy Mrs. Stores She'll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours |
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| Syd Barrett – Feel Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure 'crowd' should be 'crab'. 'Crowd' makes absolutely no lyrical sense. | |
| Syd Barrett – Late Night Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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'when we grew very tall when I saw you so small' Syd loved Alice in Wonderland. I think he is referencing that here. Another quote from Alice: 'I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours'. I understand why he loved this book. |
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| Syd Barrett – Gigolo Aunt Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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If you read the song as a poem, with lots of associations and describing things instead of naming them, I simply get a song about a person going to the beach with a girl he used to be dating. Everything is going so well, he thinks: if she behaves this good, I might want her back. Later in the song he tells about her making a scene and about people who would like to see her go. So, I thought about 'gigolo aunt' what could that mean? An aunt to a child might be seen as someone with a certain status, someone you might not see everyday but still holds power over you. It's interesting he uses 'gigolo' which is male and 'aunt' which is female. Did he maybe feel powerless in this relationship? Did he feel like the girl and the child in the relationship? Of course gigolo also has a sexual connotation, infidelity maybe? 'Satin entrail' is just a very funny way to describe the lining of a jacket. I also really love the way colour always pop up in a lot of Barrett songs, after all he was a painter. Like Van Gogh he describes moods and feelings in colour. I love the juxtaposition of 'it's rosy' describing the day, 'the blue and grey' (the sea) and the pale (their skin I assume). It's like he is painting with words and that's why I love Syd so much. He seems like such a genuine sensitive person. |
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| David Bowie – Lazarus Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This may be a song to Marc Bolan. They were friends, maybe even occasional lovers, for years. They met when they were both teenage mods. Bolan's coke and alcohol abuse made him nasty and they fell out at some point. They spend some time in NY together (this was just before the fall out I think). Just before Marc's death they reconciled. Bowie performed on Marc's show and afterwards Bolan gave Bowie his guitar. Few weeks later, Marc was killed in a car crash. It's this guitar that Bowie chose to use on Lazarus. | |
| David Bowie – Lazarus Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[heppercatnonplus:35629] He is referencing Lou Reed but I think this may be about Marc Bolan. The hint is that the guitar Bolan gave to Bowie two weeks for his death was used on Lazarus. Bolan and Bowie also spend time together in New York. | |
| T. Rex – Salamanda Palaganda Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| This song is so great. That zoozoozoozoo and the crazy voices are so fun. | |
| T. Rex – Rip-Off Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| John Frusciante said he thought it would be funny to rip off a song called 'rip off'. He's a Bolan fan. That one long bridge chord's the one he used in 'Under the bridge'. Bolan for all his fame is still very underrated IMO. | |
| T. Rex – Metal Guru Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[LikeSisterRaySaid:28972] Both Morrissey and Johnny Marr admitted they were heavily inspired by T-Rex and nicked some riffs off of Bolan. So it's no stretch at all. | |
| T. Rex – Ballrooms Of Mars Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I think it may be a reference to David Bowie (Life on Mars). | |
| David Bowie – Star Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| There's a pretty direct reference to T-Rex ('Get it on'). Also Marc Bolan before he became famous was always boasting and talking about how he would become a famous star. There's a lot of Bolan in Ziggy and Bolan was a bigger influence on Bowie than he gets credits for. | |
| David Bowie – Everyone Says 'Hi' Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I think it's about Marc Bolan, who moved away from England for tax reasons a few years before he died, while Bowie was in New York. I think 'big fat dog' ('big black dog') could refer to Bolan's depression he sank into after his succes wained. I really believe Bowie and Bolan cared a lot about each other and I think Bowie must have missed his old friend. | |
| The Smiths – Paint a Vulgar Picture Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure it's about Marc Bolan. Moz mentions in his book that he tried to get Bolans autograph. From what I gather from the lyrics he had a huge crush on him, which makes sense because he was this gorgeous manchild elf. | |
| Jeff Buckley – Jewel Box Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Yeah, Cocteau Twins again. Compare these lyrics to 'Shallow then Halo' from CT's Garlands album (one of Jeff's favourite albums): Stars in my eyes Stars in my face Womb (Warmth?) in my belly And then compare the lyrics of jewel box (Treasure is another CT album btw) to Massive Attack's Teardrop, the song Liz Fraser sang. I'm firmly of the opinion that she was a great love in Buckley's life, although most biographers seem to know little about it. I think they were both so secretive about this love, but their lyrics are very revealing. |
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| Tim Buckley – Dream Letter Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[Harmony4:27359] The thing is: we are being fed the same story Jeff was told during his life. When Jeff's mother made contact with Tim when Jeff was 8 years old, Tim was more than happy to see his son and let him stay over for almost a week. This was the only time Jeff got to spend with Tim. The thing is that this does not sound like a man who didn't want to see his son, but who couldn't see his son, for whatever reason. It's a shame Jeff grew up feeling so torn up about his absent father. | |
| The Gun Club – Moonlight Motel Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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What, no comments? This song is so amazing. It seems to be about a prostitute, in some dumpy motel. What's so genius about the lyrics is it's cinematic imagery. And the twist is so good: this person is in a hole, waiting and it's all pretty desolate, but there's still fire in them, they aren't defeated yet: 'one of these days I'll kill you, where you sleep!' My favourite line: 'I was strong enough, to admit that I was weak'. It makes me think of addiction, of not being able to quit. Yeah, great song. Rest in peace Jeffrey, you crazy genius man. |
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| The Gun Club – Come Back Jim Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| It seems obvious to me that the names Jim, Jack and Johnny in the songs are pseudonyms for Jeffrey. | |
| Jeff Buckley – Dream Brother Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[zohan:22685] His father was sometimes called an angel. I suppose the dark angel is death. | |
| Tim Buckley – Sweet Surrender Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[difolk:18898] No it's not. Tim called his second wife Judy his 'cross-eyed flamingo'. and the tango refers to his song 'Come here woman', which was about meeting Judy. | |
| Jeff Buckley – Nightmares By The Sea Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[lilynymph:18722] All of this. I have one more thing to add: I think it is also a reference to his parents, who had a shotgun wedding, and spent their wedding night sleeping on the floor. | |
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