| Pink Floyd – Vegetable Man Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I reckon the lyrics are a bit out and sound more like this: In yellow shoes I get the blues Though I walk the streets with my plastic feet With blue velvet trousers, make me feel pink There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers In my paisley shirt I look a jerk And my turquoise waistcoast is quite out of sight But oh oh my haircut looks so fair Vegetable man where are you? So I change my gear, and I find my needs, And I cover them up with the latest cut, And my pants and socks are forms with a pox, Still it don't take long to buy nylon socks, The watch, black watch My watch with a black face And a date in the middle, And all the lot it's what I've got, It's what I wear, it's what you see, It must be me, it's what I am, Vegetable man. 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, He's the kind of family, you just gonna see him if you can, Vegetable man |
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| Pink Floyd – Scream Thy Last Scream Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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How many times, Syd was officially 'cleared' of ever having schizophrenia in the eighties. He is and always has been totally sane, just different. And all his stuff does make sense, it's just abstract. And the lyrics for at least the second line are wrong, it sounds more like: Blather your pointless point, you're pointed (and then it could be) What'll be uppance to crouchy Mrs.Stores And wow, the whole thing suddenly makes sense. Some old bag has been slagging him off and needs a jolly good kicking all round. Maybe his girlfriends mother? Or the Queen, or even the lady at the local cornershop who got funny over his run on her Rizla's. |
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| Pink Floyd – Lucifer Sam Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Actually, now I think he says "Lucipher surfer" rather than Lucipher Simba but both are good. | |
| Pink Floyd – Apples and Oranges Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Fantastic. Yet again, Syd makes Sydless Floyd sound like slow cook spew. I think there must be a few meanings to this but I'm going with this one - to me it's about lacking self awareness until you meet the person you're meant to be with and then that natural connection, being in their head (as you are), means you see yourself through them. So you're actual being starts with them - and most importantly, you end with them too. Where you stop is where that person leaves you. I reckon this accounts for some of the he/she autobiographical stuff in other Syd songs too. But whatever, at least now I know where the whole of Blurs Parklife album came from. |
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| Pink Floyd – Candy and a Currant Bun Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This really is the best bit of noise ever invented - along with Syds other songs, and any other songs by Syd, this is the best, really - although it might be just a little bit better. I think I have a version off a radio broadcast and the mental bit after the second 'frail' is just ace. | |
| Pink Floyd – Vegetable Man Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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One of the best songs Floyd ever did. Absolute f*cking genius. If he hadn't already started to invent punk with Astronomy Domini this would have been the invention of punk. It's like the lyric in Flaming that goes - you can't see me - but with much less yippee about it. So I agree it's autobigraphical, but it says much much more about how limited the rest of the band were and even more about how crap the Floyd audience, and 99.9% of people, are. |
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| John Frusciante – Going Inside Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yes, it is why he has tryed to destroy his life, because he has Temporal Lobe ADHD. See Syd Barrett stuff , he's exactly the same. | |
| Syd Barrett – Love You Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Its hurl it in the water baby And instead of Flaking, I think it's Flecking That's another word for flaming, or shining, or black eyes :) |
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| Syd Barrett – Wined And Dined Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I agree. The Opel version is miles better than the one on Barrett, but anyone notice that on the Barrett one the duck from Bike seems to have made an appearence? Or is that my duck I'm overdubbing? | |
| Syd Barrett – Golden Hair Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yes. Love conquers everything, even life. | |
| Syd Barrett – Opel Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Not sure on this, but it sounds to me like warm shallow waters sweeps shelves so the cockle's shy shelves being ridges or levels of sand (?) where cockles live, the cockle being shy because it peaks as the edge of the sea try's to tempt it but refusing to come out for anything but the deep. A world of permanent retreat and meaningless but well meaning people. And I'm sure it's crisp flax squeaks tall reeds and definitely stood on ground All about being beached, obviously |
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| Syd Barrett – Love Song Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Oh no no it's not. It's about quantum love and finding and loosing the one you're here for. And in the last line it's - bigger suprise. The instrumental version off the extended Barrett (without Gilmours overdaubs) is the only one - that really is the greatest. Simplicity is a songwright named Syd. |
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| Syd Barrett – It Is Obvious Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Correct lyric is are simple cot bars through the clear daytime and you'd be there braver and braver a hankerchief waverer the louder your lips to that little loud hailer growing together for the good of each other a wandering fumbling stumbling rumbling our minds shot together, our minds shot together. and hog to a grog The song is running backwards - they're getting together - our minds shot together is at the end, in the middle paragraph their splitting up & they're both falling apart and him into madness over it - our minds shot together. Shot through. The versions off the extended Opel are the only ones to do, take 5 is the saddest version of this the joint top saddest song ever, though take 3 is tough too. It's about flying with RyanAir and not even getting a seat. |
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| Syd Barrett – Let's Split Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| In a way, but actually it's more absolutely tragically sad & totally beautiful. Do you not realise the frame should be part of the picture, or are you a one that will trade people. | |
| Syd Barrett – Birdy Hop Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Kite as in bird of prey - that eats little birds. And it's on a flying kind of sighing in a meddlesome bay. The inference being put up or out to sea. |
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| Pink Floyd – Bike Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Whadyutalkinbout fools. Go back to your Flobalot Floyd all the ones that are crap. This song is the best and is always ace everytime. Infact if it's anything by Syd and it isn't superb then it's your fault and glad for you cos it's all you deserve. Actually, I think you'll find Floyds mime artist clown Roger the Dodger (gotta pick a mucka) said it was very 'English', not British. And gay!? What a prize Gerald you are Tool, bet you've never even seen a ladies house. Oceanic Gaze put the mouse away in one, well done that cat. But those that think Syd is begging, or desperate, or looking for some - sex?!! For Christs sake. Nail someone else to a cross and name me Jesus. But hoorah for Dsalmiitetn and could be defintely right. This song is absolutism in love. And each of the things he's describing that he'll give away is exactly what it is, and in what they are, they also mark stages in his life that have led him to this one thing. And as well each thing is something that altogether adds up to him and what's he's always been like. But now I can’t be bothered. |
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| Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow - here comes the Quantum universe - sharp right, down the stairs and under the sea. Easy as peas (as long as your not a fish). | |
| Syd Barrett – Baby Lemonade Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Could be, but I think not. The truth should out about the Floyd frauds - Gilmour gimmemore & Waters tortures. This is virtually the only song that's purely about Pink Floyd - and they're Baby Lemonade.. Virtually all of Madcap Laughs is a communication wanting his lost love to come back. When that fell on deaf ears and wasn’t understood or was ignored (less obvious than it should have been cos Gilmour had sabotaged it by stealing Opel), he did that very upbeat Radio session and played Baby Lem for the first time. With Baby Lem, I think he tried to turn over a new leaf and communicate with Floyd to prompt them to ask him back (his second priority after his woman). It's unusually & extremely organised and repetitive and looks like he's really tried to build it constructively - rather than it emerging whole all quantum like – like Wolfpack. He's in the distance where the rain is falling - Cambridge or London & Floyd are off in the regions at a festival (he didn't like playing outside of London as the audience weren't as open-minded). So they've sold out and are just being commercial, part of a circus. Floyd are the clowns because they are working with a 'this will entertain' veneer that's really just a humiliating joke, and the iron hands are the closed minded, cast & inflexible audience who's demand for easy listening is steering HIS band. The cage through the post is the cheque Floyd used to send him (which stopped him really being able to complain about their treatment of him and stopped him 'needing' to do other work). The sun going up and down is his life passing him by quickly - without occasion or event to pin it too & slow it down. Everything wasted, all because of nasty Floyd his so-called friends. As someone with an absolute soul, he couldn't apologise or back down so it's all abstract. Instead of 'sorry' & 'I want to come back' which would put him at their mercy and was a surrender he couldn't offer, he explained his faults, or rather what Floyd had complained about - his inability with time, reality, organisation and his weirdness - but then what's changed? Nothing with him* - I was weird (screaming) when you met me. It was of course Floyd that had changed - power stealers like Waters & encroachers like Gilmour are at first always ready to follow - in the Wolfpack - they have to cos they don't know on their own. But as soon as the path is found by another, they're very quick to step up as the new leader. It's incredibly sad that they ignored him because they must have understood, and it's even worse because more than that - they actually manipulated his abstract protests & demonstrations to their advantage. To the media Floyd maintained it was just more evidence he'd gone mad - and that's still the misconception. The song ended up on Barrett with Wolfpack - also about Floyd but much more aggressive because they'd ignored Baby Lem. The rest of the Barrett album songs are about him mourning lost love (having accepted it’s lost), or being cynical about this crappy society. *Effervescing Elephant & Bob Dylan Blues were his first songs, written pre Floyd, but they were just like his post Floyd stuff. So Syd's ability didn't deteriorate, the only thing that had changed was other peoples assumptions of him and how they used him. Syd was, and is, NOT mad or ill, just pissed off - and quite rightly so. Flipping architects. Gilmour knicked and hid Bob Dylan Blues too - didn't give it back till just recently (hence the recent release of Syds greatest hits - in order to issue that). I wonder if the tune to Crazy Diamond and other great 'Floyd' achievements were also stolen? |
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| Syd Barrett – Long Gone Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I agree it's ace. Very lost mariner. I think it's autobiographical. In his lyrics he more than often speaks in the third person, and he tends to refer to himself as female a lot too. In my opinion it's for two reasons. In this one it's 'she' as in a ship or veichle he's steering - or rather that he's meant to be steering but he's on strike & has stopped or run aground (rather than given up). Like him being beached in Opel. In some others it's sarcasm - because his girlfriend (and I reckon women in general) have pushed to acquire & have taken over the dominant male role by trading off their sexulaity (like a gigolo). Stupid thing is, they forget that they haven't taken, men have surrendered and given. Fine, but they should have some grace about it and recognise what real strength is - rather than their over-blown show off posturers who are only inflated in their padded bag of safe civilisation. Boagrecious's to a man, or rather water bison. The hands are what's he's done to his life by using it as a picket line to demonstrate and communicate his dissatisfaction. That's 'abstract oppositional defiance' for you. The sky is death, the light in the sky is God - Apollo. Syd's Achilles too don't you know. |
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| Syd Barrett – Milky Way Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I don't think Syd had mental problems at all, only communication problems - or rather other people had understanding problems. The surface & the shallow cannot conceive of the deep. By the way, is sound mind the same as right thinking? And it's "Give a gasp of life today" - sleep apnea. Milky Way is about being asleep and searching for your loved one in the quantum sea. Simple, simple. |
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| Syd Barrett – Gigolo Aunt Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Nearly ranting but still thinking: Satin entrail (or trail) - delicate misty colourful vapour trail of inner self that he leaves behind him as he disappears, smiling for control. But if entrail - The Vikings had a redemption ritual for a prisoner of note who was going to be executed (and therefore not go to Valhalla). They were allowed to choose to die with a sword in their hand - if they tied one end of their gut to a tree and unwound it by walking round the tree. Nice. Trench-coat - closed off, in siege, old soldier, dark, & imposing but outcast & in the background. Nap (sleep), sack (isolated) Gigolo Aunt - She's in control (which is the male role that she's usurped from him), and while this is about love for him he's accusing her of being on the make by leaving - a calculator. Aunts are there for the good times and don't take on full responsibility. And I bet it's intended to reflect an argument too - you're a Gigolo! Aren't! Maybe. It seems that he's done something to upset his woman, she's written a tearful letter to split up so he's gone to see her to sort it. But she's actually doing her nut & is totally unforgiving. She's left him but he loves her, so he leaves him too. It’s about beaching yourself - and the beach is Opel. Now I RANT: Just can't believe anyone would say Syd's solo work was undistinguished, I reckon that's a reflection of your mind sunshine. Syd's a titan of strength, truth & mankind’s soul & his contribution to art and intellect is scorched into histories littlest plaque of greatest achievement. Sydless Floyd sounds dated and decrepid now - and that’s cos it was just contrived and self-serving calculated veneer. And SHORT! Over 35 years on and sooo many people are still getting into this – or do you think an art career is about turning up everyday for 45 years? Took Shakespeare his entire life to only get near to the Syd level of understanding that he has in the Tempest - cos most people have to live to journey to arrive at understanding. So Syd stepped back while still in his 20's - but what do you do when your born arrived, and if you really do love rather than deal, what's to do when it leaves? Syd's the next Blake & I'm sure he'll be glad to be 7. As the Saxons (real men) said at Maldon - "It's a good day to die". Bah humbug to this modern trodden & sodden field of thicky sticks together. |
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| Syd Barrett – Gigolo Aunt Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think: Correct lyrics & comment on shocking stupid. Grooving around in a trench coat with a satin entrail Seems to be all around - it's din - and the pale we pale Jiving on down to the beach to see the blue and the grey Seems to be all on, 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 the gigolo aunt Yes I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt you're the gigolo aunt Heading on down with the light, the dust in your way she was angrier there, than her water-shell mail Life - to this love - to me, heading me - down to me, thunderbird shale seems to be all on, 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 the gigolo aunt Yes I know what you are you are a gigolo aunt you're the gigolo aunt Grooving on down in a nap-sack, superlative day Some wish she - move - and chancer she came - move - jiving away She made the scene - should have been, superlative day Everything’s all on, 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 giglo aunt, you're the gigolo aunt! Yes I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're the gigolo aunt! |
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| Pink Floyd – See Emily Play Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yes, a bt of an Ophelia is Emily | |
| Syd Barrett – The Word Song Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It seems to be a description of himself and of other people. The stark differences between the real him and this artificial world, the problems that caused with communicating, the misunderstandings that led to with his abstract demonstrations and where that eventually left him. The island is Opel. This song really is total genius. Syd for poet laureate, and for hosting Newsnight too. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Scarecrow Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Kornchild you sound like your from a right ugly kettle of fish. No fair - be nice to Syd he's a star. He's done much more for you than you have for him and much more than Korn will ever do for anyone. For instance, he made music. Syd is a shame - but for himself, not us, his solo work is better than anything his backing band come Floyd ever did on their own. And Syd wasn't insane - his apparent madness was abstract oppositional defiance over people assuming he was insane. By overplaying it he stayed free of their assumptions and was mocking them. Syd's mistake was that he credited his friends with too much intelligence and humanity. As someone pretending to be mad he was actually in control and therefore may have known where things were heading - so it can be prothetic And and and - it wasn't particularly LSD as far as I've read, more the Mandrax he was prescribed, and the frustration of being surrounded by a sea of thickery. |
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| Pink Floyd – Lucifer Sam Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I'm sure the cat is Syd's dark side (siam as in siamese) - or something very dark coming through him steering his life and taking him away from Jeniifer. His impulse maybe. And it does come through at night and it takes over - John Frusciante knows. Wow - simba, ace, I hadn't noticed that & it's not in the published lyrics but it's definitely there. So maybe Lucifer's also the tiger in Effervecsing Elephant. 38 years on and it just gets better all the time. That's proper quantum. |
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| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I agree it is intensely sad because it's his cry for help that his friends totally ignored. I'm pretty sure it is 'room' - in reference to the imprisoning isolation and seclution the band aboned him too. It's blue because he's still & frozen in time - as oppossed to sea isn't green (growing / alive). Syd was totally sane, the apparent insanity was a mockery of other people assuming he was mad - it got real with the mis-PRESCRIBED mandrax & his fustration. "The tune they play is an ask confide" - but they never did, they just decided about him. Hence 'I wonder who could be writing this song' is a sarcastic dig directly at the culprits - Floyd (clowns), who loved to tell everyone how mad he was everytime they were promoting a song, 'he's over there but he's not really there. That makes us cool so please buy our hat'. Floyd was his dream - the backing band took over because they failed 'to get it'. The joke is his mockery of them - him overplaying Carry On style what they had been so ignorant & limited to assume. And then they left him with it, forever. What a great bunk of guys, crying all the way to the bank. |
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| Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| seashellz you couldn't be more wrong. Are you an architect? | |
| Syd Barrett – Dark Globe Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Syd's not schizo, it's an accepted, published fact that his diagnosis as schizophrenic was a misdiagnosis and withdrawn at least 15 years ago. If you want to take a stab in the dark and present it as fact try ADHD with Abstract Oppositional Defiance, at least that's beleivable. On that basis, Syd is totally sane and it's everyone else that's mutated into brain-altered self-sedating mentals (fact - herd). Esikmos live in the cold, Eskimo chain is a reference to him trying to slow himself down with drugs so he can be with someone living in this monotonous world of grey. When you're the only sane person in every thousand mutants, it's easy to feel isolated. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Gnome Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This is the news on the Gnome. The gnome is Syd or at least someone else a little short on the old dopamine (satisfaction chemical). It's easy to see when you acknowledge that it is a story that progresses through the seperate verses. The Gnome is absolute and without limits, so he is discontent in the world because the world doesn't belong to him, to be outside would mean compromising which is limitation & surrender - not good. So in the first verse he stays in doors keeping himself content with wine etc and he ignores the world by shutting it out. He lives in his world that he controls. In the second verse he discovers Pot and he can finally go outside (a bit) and be easy going and ignore stuff close up. But then, one day... he discovers LSD (King of Dopamine) and he's more than outside, he's free. He doesn't have to ignore stuff because it all exists in his world that he has created - his trip. The sky is generally God or death, and the river is his life, going down by the route of least resistance, see through and formless in itself it still cuts a deep groove that it owns and it is still a beautiful & powerful force of nature. The Gnome is about taking control & escaping the limitation of reality & other people - liberation through self destruction. And as well, it's a song about a Gnome. |
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