Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
Lime and limpid green, a second scene
Now fights between the blue you once knew
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania
Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten
Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam, pow, pow
Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around
The icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around
The icy waters underground
Now fights between the blue you once knew
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania
Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten
Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam, pow, pow
Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around
The icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around
The icy waters underground
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Astronomy Domine Lyrics as written by Syd Barrett
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Lime and limpid green, is the second scene.
It's about being surrounded by the blue sky and falling to the green grass on the ground. Floating down, the sound resounds. Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow as you hit the dirt.
You feel like you're sinking into the ground and you hear the icy waters beneath.
You see stars, Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania, Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten. Blinding signs flap.
Stairway to heaven scare. You think you're dying. You see Dan Dare, the pilot of the future.
So there, it's about falling.
Oh yeah, and being on acid.
Hell. floating down the sound resounds around thee i see waters underground. think about it.
Everyone here has no difficulty to say it's about a trip on LSD... and what do you do when you're in such a state? You have visions, you create a whole world that leaves from your mind. So if "domine" is latin, the latin word for "Master","Creator","God", literally "Lord", Syd may have been the Lord of Astronomy because of LSD... Lord of that new world in which vivid colours battle, typical sceneries that were in syd's mind appear, like the figures of planets and moons that may come from sci-fi or other experiences. And then the stairway scare of Dan Dare confronted with the vacuum terror of the mind trip or the careful choice of words to amplify given sounds... the song is quite simple: as it comes out by a genius mind (ok helped by lsd).
If this song was just about acid, it would suck. Its exact meaning is irrelevant. What it evokes is something that a lot of Floyd songs do, even after Syd. A sense of fear around darkness, emptiness, and the power of that fear. This song relates that horror to the profound darkness and cold of space and the universe. This is not a unique perspective. The universe holds all the secrets of dark and light. It's all there. What you bring relates to what you take away. I've looked and seen overwhelming emptiness, then again, I've felt the comfort of harmony, and infinite light of being connected and part of it all, from the tiniest atom on up.
Once again wrong lyrics
Lime and limpid green, a second scene A fight between the blue you once knew. Floating down, the sound resounds Around the icy waters underground. Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania. Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.
Blinding signs flap Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow. Stairway scare, Dan Dare who's there? Lime and limpid green, the sounds around the icy waters under Lime and limpid green, the sounds around the icy waters underground
This Song gives the feeling of space travel, and the lyrics describe what you are seeing. At the beginning their is a countdown then the song takes off, then he's describing the earth.
Astronomy: the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
Domine: dominus: a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson
hulio: if this is about hell, why is it about icy water instead of firey purgatory?