| Syd Barrett – Dark Globe Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Aww :'( this song makes me feel so fkin sad, more so than jugband blues. I read that his friend Jenny Spires introduced Syd to Iggy the Eskimo cos she was off to US & didn't want to leave Syd alone. Iggy was homeless at the time so it suited them both. But just knowing this makes me understand the song in a totally different way. However much I love PF & their music I still can't quite believe how they dealt with the mental deterioration of their childhood friend. An illness largely characterized by fear & paranoia hardly needs it expressed in a song by your closest friends for the whole world to hear. I can't begin to imagine what this did to him. So, so sad !! | |
| Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Zarlodious:30109] I highly doubt that. Pink Floyd are all athiests. It may mean that to YOU. But no, it was not written with that intent. You're projecting, | |
| Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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| Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[sydbarrett:29998] yeah! And Syd could spell illustrative so you're sussed mate | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[03mads:29997] But it's so interesting hearing people try :) | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[crying_tree_1979:29996] I just love the way you finish that with 'listen kids' ha, just thought I'd say it :) | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[emodream15:29995] yeah but a lot of them after Syd are quite self explanatory really arnet they? Well I think so anyway, I guess many would disagree though. I apologise on behalf of humankind that you took abuse for simply asking a question. Not that it's my duty but yano, some body should!! | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Onthelongview:29994] I disagree, he reached his peak alright. 'Peak' being his full potential. MB not for the world to see but that would be defeating the object for him. Seems he lived from the heart not the ego. Art was personal expression, passion, nothing else. | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Has anybody got any thoughts on the line "I'll do my loving in the winter"? ...It's the one line that I never hear anybody mention or interpret & maybe that is because it's so obvious to others but it isn't to me! Is it that they are cold towards him but he loves them anyway? Or that he still loves when everything is gone?...as in leaves gone from trees in winter etc.? I really Dont know & I know you don't 100% but I'd like to hear thoughts. Thanks |
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| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[xJadex:29993] love it! It's true! ..well it was true before he sadly passed away but yes, the world was too much for him. I get it, I really do :( | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[iThinkmaybe:29991] sorry my last 2 posts were meant for you but sent them to @[brainticket:29992] by mistake. I can't be bothered to type it all out again! But thank you for such insight! Great stuff! | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[brainticket:29990] having said that, they were only kids, they couldn't fully understand. Plus they were already well on the way to living the dream | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[brainticket:29989] very well observed and explained! It is becoming clearer to me now. It's debatable whether he did have mental health issues with periods of lucidity or if it was largely an act. I'd say largely but not purely. Though, as well as it being to say what he could not otherwise say, I also think he wanted to prove to himself who these friends of his really were deep down before he went any further on this journey to world fame with them all. And yes, sadly he got his answer. He just had so much more depth than the rest & I believe he wanted to teach them about humanity because all the fame & fortune was not an attraction for him at all, it was just too inauthentic a world for him to live in. The time he stood on stage and just stared whist de stringing his guitar one by one, I believe he did that just to show that he could do anything and the crowd would love it. The appreciation for his art had been lost by that point & it was just madness by then. Commercialism and crazy obsessiveness, no, he wasn't about that. It would be like selling his soul. So he stayed true to himself & off he went, leaving them plenty to think about. The footage of them singing jugband blues with him as front man & the rest just playing along is haunting & very, very sad. You can't help but be moved by it, he was such a gentle soul. R.I.P Syd |
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| Mary Black – Dimming of the Day Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Pastille:29988] No, I just remembered the later lyrics, its about a human love, somebody they long to be with, not Jesus/God a lot of Marys songs are holy so I do always wonder at first when I haven't heard it for a while & then it becomes clear again. Though it still could be? Down to personal interpretation I guess | |
| Mary Black – Dimming of the Day Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Beautiful song, it brings tears to my eyes. "This old house is falling down around my ears" A feeling of absolute defeat as I'm sure we have all felt at one time or another, through heartbreak or sheer spiritual bankruptcy. I Dont know if it means a true partner, a true love, a confidante, or if it means Jesus/God. I do not know, but its very well written. And its piercing. Very moving. Thank you Mary |
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| Mary Black – Bright Blue Rose Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Dubma:29987] And the bright blue rose being the unattainable as blue roses do not exist naturally. So, the perfection of Christ. And what a beautiful song, I'm amazed to see only one comment! |
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| R.E.M. – What's the Frequency, Kenneth? Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[GeneralPublic:29986] It contains amphetamine which the guy used & it caused him to have psychotic episodes. The part about the radio is correct | |
| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[WhiteMagic:29985] I only just realised your post is from so long ago!! I hope you're still around to read my reply, agree or disagree. Let's face it, none of us know 10000% do we. My last post seems to be hanging in thin air somewhere in cyberspace & I cba going through 550 posts!! 17 years!! Good Lord!! Lol Comfortably Numb...still a tune, always will be, bet you're still listening! You forgot you ever wrote this right? :) |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[tuesday22:29984] Sorry I was just trying this reply out then! Just wrote a long reply and it vanished!! |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[tuesday22:29982] choon | |
| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[WhiteMagic:29981] His father didn't die before he was born, there is a photo of him with both his parents and his older brother when they were very young. His mother didn't abandon h when he was 6 either. The song is based on Syd, it can't be denied. The band capitalized on Syd's demise, whichever way you look at it. OK they were only kids, their understanding of what was happening was limited & by that time they were well on the way to being one of the biggest bands of all time. But Syd comes into all of the writing in one way or another. There are just too many similarities... not even similarities, events as they actually happened. Roger has said in an interview that he walked in and seen the cigarette burnt down into Syd's fingers. Syd shaved his hair and eyebrows, its all about him, with some added events/emotions from Roger's life. They wrote and wrote about Syd and made a hell of a lot of money in the process. Syd was unwell but he knew what was going down, that's clear in the lyrics to jugband blues. Syd hated the in authenticity of it all, how his art was becoming just business & he couldn't live like a performing monkey, he stayed true to himself. He knew they wanted him well to keep on delivering. Maybe Roger did need medical attention before a gig, and the stark realisation that they wanted him to just get through the show must have brought it home to him how Syd must have felt. As well as this, they were to discover that all the success and fame in the world does not equal happiness. So it's an amalgamation of experiences and emotions of Syd and Roger, but based on Syd. It can't be denied, it all points to that. As they have got older and wiser they have recognised the callousness involved in the treatment of Syd before and as he left the band. I am not judging them as callous, those are David Gilmours words, and as I've said they were just kids on the road to living the dream. But all said and done, Syd's demise was capitalized on in a big way. There's no denying it, it's there in the lyrics, in the film, everything. They may have said it was 'general'_but all artists work is some form of expression of himself. And this was their experience. Maybe it helped them process their grief at losing their friend and his amazing talent that gave birth to Pink Floyd. And what came of it was nothing short of phenomenal. But it's Syd through and through, and other things added. R.I.P Syd..Legend |
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