If you read the song as a poem, with lots of associations and describing things instead of naming them, I simply get a song about a person going to the beach with a girl he used to be dating. Everything is going so well, he thinks: if she behaves this good, I might want her back.
Later in the song he tells about her making a scene and about people who would like to see her go.
So, I thought about 'gigolo aunt' what could that mean? An aunt to a child might be seen as someone with a certain status, someone you might not see everyday but still holds power over you. It's interesting he uses 'gigolo' which is male and 'aunt' which is female. Did he maybe feel powerless in this relationship? Did he feel like the girl and the child in the relationship? Of course gigolo also has a sexual connotation, infidelity maybe?
'Satin entrail' is just a very funny way to describe the lining of a jacket.
I also really love the way colour always pop up in a lot of Barrett songs, after all he was a painter. Like Van Gogh he describes moods and feelings in colour. I love the juxtaposition of 'it's rosy' describing the day, 'the blue and grey' (the sea) and the pale (their skin I assume). It's like he is painting with words and that's why I love Syd so much. He seems like such a genuine sensitive person.
If you read the song as a poem, with lots of associations and describing things instead of naming them, I simply get a song about a person going to the beach with a girl he used to be dating. Everything is going so well, he thinks: if she behaves this good, I might want her back. Later in the song he tells about her making a scene and about people who would like to see her go.
So, I thought about 'gigolo aunt' what could that mean? An aunt to a child might be seen as someone with a certain status, someone you might not see everyday but still holds power over you. It's interesting he uses 'gigolo' which is male and 'aunt' which is female. Did he maybe feel powerless in this relationship? Did he feel like the girl and the child in the relationship? Of course gigolo also has a sexual connotation, infidelity maybe?
'Satin entrail' is just a very funny way to describe the lining of a jacket. I also really love the way colour always pop up in a lot of Barrett songs, after all he was a painter. Like Van Gogh he describes moods and feelings in colour. I love the juxtaposition of 'it's rosy' describing the day, 'the blue and grey' (the sea) and the pale (their skin I assume). It's like he is painting with words and that's why I love Syd so much. He seems like such a genuine sensitive person.