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Itchycoo Park Lyrics
Over bridge of sighs,
to rest my eyes in shades of green
under dreaming spires
to Itchycoo Park. That's where I've been.
(What did you do there?)
I got high...
(What did you feel there?)
Well, I cried...
(But why the tears then?)
Tell you why...
It's all too beautiful! [x4]
I'll tell you what I'll do.
(What will you do?)
I'd like to go there now with you,
you can miss out school.
(Won't that be cool?)
Why go to hear the words of fools?
(What did you do there?)
I got high...
(What did you touch there?)
I touched the sky...
(But why the tears then?)
I'll tell you why...
It's all too beautiful! [x4]
I feel inclined to blow my mind,
get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun.
They all come out to groove about
be nice and have fun in the sun.
(What did you do there?)
I got high...
(What did you touch there?)
I touched the sky...
(But why the tears then?)
Tell you why...
(It's all too beautiful!) [x4]
It's all so beautiful. (It's all too beautiful!) [x4]
to rest my eyes in shades of green
under dreaming spires
to Itchycoo Park. That's where I've been.
(What did you do there?)
I got high...
(What did you feel there?)
Well, I cried...
(But why the tears then?)
Tell you why...
(What will you do?)
I'd like to go there now with you,
you can miss out school.
(Won't that be cool?)
Why go to hear the words of fools?
(What did you do there?)
I got high...
(What did you touch there?)
I touched the sky...
(But why the tears then?)
I'll tell you why...
get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun.
They all come out to groove about
be nice and have fun in the sun.
(What did you do there?)
I got high...
(What did you touch there?)
I touched the sky...
(But why the tears then?)
Tell you why...
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Submitted by
random18 On Aug 25, 2006
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It is indeed about skipping school to get stoned in a park, and of course, about seeing so much beauty everywhere.
Hearing Ichycoo Park makes me want to burn a zilch! Beauticious, man...
@Pooer I’m in, don’t Bogart, man...
@Pooer I’m in, don’t Bogart, man...
An NPR interview with Ian McLagan confirms Ronnie Lane was the one who had the inspiration for the song, co-written with help from Steve Marriott. "Dreaming spires" was a line borrowed from an Oxford brochure. Though bandmates have offered various locations as the actual park, Ronnie said it was in Ilford, and Steve specified that it was Ilford's Valentines Park.
What is great about this song, though, is of course less a tribute to the place and more a tribute to the time. It's impossible to listen to this song without somehow being transported to the '60s. Even if you were not around during the era of the counter-cultural revolution in consciousness and empowerment of youth wanting to change the world, you experience it when hearing Itchycoo Park.
@KangNKodos in Ronnie’s biography, Can You Show Me. Dream he says he wrote it and Steve came up with the middle eight.
@KangNKodos in Ronnie’s biography, Can You Show Me. Dream he says he wrote it and Steve came up with the middle eight.
He was in a hotel room and there was a magazine there about Cambridge with its bridge of Sighs and Dreaming Spires. Steve said it was about everyone’s local park. Steve’s was in Manor Park. He thought Ronnie’s was Spitalfields churchyard. Ronnie said he’d based it on the hum, God Be On My Head but when you youtube that there doesn’t seem to be any similarity. Anyway, it was defo about an acid trip....
He was in a hotel room and there was a magazine there about Cambridge with its bridge of Sighs and Dreaming Spires. Steve said it was about everyone’s local park. Steve’s was in Manor Park. He thought Ronnie’s was Spitalfields churchyard. Ronnie said he’d based it on the hum, God Be On My Head but when you youtube that there doesn’t seem to be any similarity. Anyway, it was defo about an acid trip.
Timeless '60s...wanna get stoned when I hear this!!
obviously its about going to a park (illford park, london) and taking LSD, like most things that came out of the 60s. I wish i was there :(
I don't understand the "bridge of sighs" reference at the beginning. That bridge is in Venice, Italy. But "Itchcoo Park" is in England. Is there also a bridge at "Itchycoo Park" called the bridge of sighs?
@dylanite The Bridge of Sighs is also that between the tower and Gallows in London. But here it doubles to mean past concern with what makes us sigh. Robin Trower..
@dylanite The Bridge of Sighs is also that between the tower and Gallows in London. But here it doubles to mean past concern with what makes us sigh. Robin Trower..
Itchycoo Park is in England is known for it's stingling nettles
What a song! I love this song and it works so well with visuals.
Such a simple song. Blissful.
Was Itchycoo Park in Ilford or Manor Park ? I think they had a tie to Manor Park due Steve coming from there and the Ruskin Arms being a venue they played in early on. I think the parents of one of the SF's might have run it. SF tribute bands still have an annual bash there.