| Syd Barrett – Octopus Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The song could be about obtaining moksha, the goal of forestdwellers everywhere, where "the octopus ride" stands for life or samsara and the singer is pleading to "please close our eyes" to this repeating cycle of death and rebirth, where the "squeaking door will ALWAYS squeak" and *cough* nothing is "ever still", contrasting this to the woods wherein it is "good to be lost" and where it's "so quiet there" that earthly life "means even less to me than i thought". In the end though, the man in the border keeps tripping out of it, to the apparent delight of "the madcap". | |
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