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 Syd Barrett Lyrics and Songs

 

From the album “The Madcap Laughs”

TERRAPIN

NO GOOD TRYING

LOVE YOU

NO MAN'S LAND

DARK GLOBE

HERE I GO

OCTOPUS

GOLDEN HAIR

LONG GONE

SHE TOOK A LONG COLD LOOK

FEEL

IF IT'S IN YOU

LATE NIGHT

From the album “Barrett”

BABY LEMONADE

LOVE SONG

DOMINOES

IT IS OBVIOUS

RATS

MAISIE

GIGOLO AUNT

WAVING MY ARMS IN THE AIR

I NEVER LIED TO YOU

WINED AND DINED

WOLFPACK

EFFERVESCING ELEPHANT

From the album “Opel”

OPEL

CLOWNS AND JUGGLERS

DOLLY ROCKER

WORD SONG
SWAN LEE

BIRDIE HOP

LET’S SPLIT

WOULDN'T YOU MISS ME

MILKY  WAY

From the album “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn”

ASTRONOMY DOMINE

LUCIFER SAM

MATILDA MOTHER

FLAMING

THE GNOME

CHAPTER 24

SCARECROW

BIKE

The 1st 3 Singles/Jugband Blues

ARNOLD LAYNE

CANDY AND A CURRANT BUN (LET'S ROLL ANOTHER ONE)

SEE EMILY PLAY

APPLES AND ORANGES

JUGBAND  BLUES

Unreleased songs / Other stuff

SCREAM THY LAST SCREAM

VEGETABLE MAN

BOB DYLAN BLUES

SNOWING

LUCY LEAVE

KING BEE

Stanley the simpleton   

ROOFTOP IN A THUNDERSTORM ROW MISSING THE POINT  

TWO OF A KIND

Millionaire / She was a millionaire

ONE IN A MILLION

BEECHWOODS / (DOWN) IN THE BEECHWOODS

Double-O Bo

EXPERIMENT / SUNSHINE

REACTION IN G

STONED ALONE / STONED AGAIN / I GET STONED/ LIVING ALONE

BALLAD

BLUES

CHOOKA-CHOOKA CHUG CHUG

COUNTRY BLUES

FAST BOOGIE

IF YOU GO, DON'T BE SLOW

JOHN LEE HOOKER

RHAMADAN

SLOW BOOGIE

KEVIN AYERS - Singing a song in the morning

THE BEATLES - WHAT'S THE NEW MARY JANE / WHAT A SHAME MARY JANE

 

 

 

From the album “The Madcap Laughs”

 

 

 

TERRAPIN

 

I really love you and I mean you

the star above you, crystal blue

Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

 

I wouldn't see you and I love to

I fly above you, yes I do

well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

 

Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth

the fins a luminous

fangs all 'round the clam

is dark below the boulders hiding all

the sunlight's good for us

'Cause we're the fishes and all we do

the move about is all we do

well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

 

Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth

the fins a luminous

fangs all 'round the clam

is dark below the boulders hiding all

the sunlight's good for us

'Cause we're the fishes and all we do

the move about is all we do

well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

 

I really love you and I mean you

the star above you, crystal blue

Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

 

 

 

NO GOOD TRYING

 

It's no good trying to place your hand

where I can't see because I understand

that you're different from me

yes I can tell

that you can't be what you pretend

and you're rocking (me) backwards

and you're rocking towards the

red and yellow mane of a stallion horse.

 

It's no good trying to hold your love

where I can't see because I understand

that you're different from me

yes I can tell

that you can't be what you pretend

the caterpillar hood won't cover the head of you

know you should be home in bed.

 

It's no good holding your sequin fan

where I can't see because I understand

that you're different from me

yes I can tell

that you can't be what you pretend

yes you're spinning around and around in a car

with electric lights flashing very fast...

 

 

 

LOVE YOU

 

Honey love you, honey little,

honey funny sunny morning

love you more funny love in the skyline baby

ice-cream 'scuse me,

I've seen you looking good the other evening

 

Oh, you dig it, had to smile just an hour or so

(are) we in love like I think we be?

It ain't a long rhyme.

It took ages to think

I think I'll hurl it in the water, baby...

 

Honey love you, honey little,

honey funny sunny morning

love you more funny love in the skyline baby

ice-cream 'scuse me,

I've seen you looking good the other evening

 

Flaking you are an nice little one

to put it all around, its just good

I like it, hey hey hey

Suppose some time that day

whoopee! swinging along over across to me

 

Honey love you, honey little,

honey funny sunny morning

love you more funny love in the skyline baby

ice-cream 'scuse me,

I've seen you looking good the other evening

 

Goodtime rocker woman we'll stray our pieces

little creepy we shine so sleepy,

so whoopee!

That's how you look...

 

Honey love you, honey little,

honey funny sunny morning

love you more funny love in the skyline baby

ice-cream 'scuse me,

I've seen you looking good the other evening

 

 

 

 

NO MAN'S LAND

 

You would hold your head up high

you even try

you would hold another hand:

oh understand!

They even see me under call

we under all,

we awful, awful, crawl

to hear my hour

come see me cry...

 

Just searching you even try

I can make you smile

if it's there will you go there too?

When I live I die!

They even see me under call

we under all, we awful, awful, crawl

because of you, to see me be.

 

 

(spoken piece):

These lyrics appeared in "Dust and Guitars" codex #1.

It seems almost impossible de understand this spoken parts of the Syd Barrett song 'No Man's Land',

but if you turn off the left channel, slow it down, eliminate the bass sounds and enhance the medium sounds

you might get the chance to hear it.

 

Tell me, Tell me

Don't, if you? /(Yippee?)

Stop that, that just upset yourself

Listen, Listen, if you ask in person

I'll stick to the joke, you know

yelling and screaming, help me!

 

All that in the afternoon, for that matter

So she'd asked if we could stay with Grace

Maybe a day or a couple of weeks

You know, until Tuesday

Pick up my mushrooms

Clean my skin up

Pick up some tissue

Pick up the production

It's all fine! you know

And she served the wine

and cups for 3 or 4 people

And that nonsense

 

Gracie do her song, heavily spaced

All the pink shine on war

Explodes from beneath

Don't you would rather

Be out the front door sometime

Long ago instead of being

Cooped up like a catched rat?

 

 

 

  

DARK GLOBE

 

Oh where are you now

pussy willow that smiled on this leaf?

When I was alone you promised the stone from your heart

my head kissed the ground

I was half the way down, treading the sand

please, please, lift a hand

I'm only a person whose armbands beat

on his hands, hang tall

won't you miss me?

Wouldn't you miss me at all?

 

The poppy birds way

swing twigs coffee brands around

brandish her wand with a feathery tongue

my head kissed the ground

I was half the way down, treading the sand

please, please, please lift the hand

I'm only a person with Eskimo chain

I tattooed my brain all the way...

Won't you miss me?

Wouldn't you miss me at all?

 

 

 

HERE I GO

 

This is a story 'bout a girl that I knew

she didn't like my songs

and that made me feel blue

she said: "a big band is far better than you"...

 

She don't rock 'n' roll, she don't like it

she don't do the stroll, well she don't do it right

well, everything’s wrong and my patience was gone

when I woke one morning

and remembered this song

O-oh-oh, kinda catchy, I hoped

that she would talk to me now

and even allow me to hold her hand

and forget that old band.

 

I strolled around to her pad

her light was off and that's bad

her sister said that my girl was gone

"But come inside, boy, and play, play, play me a song!"

I said "Yeah! Here I go"

She's kinda cute; don't you know,

That after a while of seeing her smile

I knew we could make it, make it in style!?

 

So now I've got all I need

She and I are in love, we've agreed

she likes this song and my others too

so now you see my world is...

because of this tune!

What a boon this tune!

I tell you soon

We'll be lying in bed, happily wed,

and I won't think of that girl

or what she said...

 

 

 

OCTOPUS

 

Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'

you have no word

trip, trip to a dream dragon

hide your wings in a ghost tower

sails cackling at every plate we break

cracked by scattered needles

the little minute gong

coughs and clears his throat

madam you see before you stand

hey ho, never be still

the old original favorite grand

grasshoppers green Herbarian band

and the tune they play is "In Us Confide"

so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'

you have no word

Please leave us here

close our eyes to the octopus ride!

Isn't it good to be lost in the wood

isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood

meant even less to me than I thought

with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds

clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...

well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border

hey ho, huff the Talbot

"Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo

it's true in their tree they cried

Please leave us here

close our eyes to the octopus ride!

The madcap laughed at the man on the border

hey ho, huff the Talbot

the winds they blew and the leaves did wag

they'll never put me in their bag

the seas will reach and always seep

so high you go, so low you creep

the wind it blows in tropical heat

the drones they throng on mossy seats

the squeaking door will always squeak

two up, two down we'll never meet

so merrily trip for good my side

Please leave us here

close our eyes to the octopus ride!

 

 

 

GOLDEN HAIR

(These lyrics are originally from "Chamber Music" by James Joyce (1907)

 

Lean out your window, golden hair

I heard you singing in the midnight air

my book is closed, I read no more

watching the fire dance, on the floor

I've left my book, I've left my room

 

For I heard you singing through the gloom

singing and singing, a merry air

lean out the window, golden hair...

 

 

 

LONG GONE

 

She was long gone, long, long gone

she was gone, gone, the bigger they come

the larger her hand 'till no one understands

why for so long she'd been gone.

 

And I stood very still by the window sill

and I wondered for those I love still

I cried in my mind where I stand behind

the beauty of love's in her eyes...

 

She was long gone, long, long gone

she was gone, gone, the bigger they come

the larger her hand 'till no one understands

why for so long she'd been gone.

 

And I borrowed the page

from a leopard's cage

and I prowled in the evening sun's glaze

her head lifted high to the light in the sky

the opening dawn on her face...

 

She was long gone long, long gone

she was gone, gone, the bigger they come

the larger her hand 'till no one understands

why for so long she'd been gone.

 

And I stood very still by the window sill

and I wondered for those I love still

I cried in my mind where I stand behind

the beauty of love's in her eyes...

 

She was long gone, long, long gone

she was gone, gone, the bigger they come

the larger her hand 'till no one understands

why for so long she'd been gone.

 

She was long gone long, long gone.

 

 

 

SHE TOOK A LONG COLD LOOK

 

She took a long cold look at me

and smiled and gazed all over my arm

she loves to see me get down to ground

she hasn't time just to be with me

her face between all she means to be

to be extreme, just to be extreme

a broken pier on the wavy sea

she wonders why for all she wants to see...

But I got up and I stomped around

and hid the piece where the trees touch the ground...

 

The end of truth that lay out the time

spent lazing here on a painting dream

a mile or more in a foreign clime

to see farther inside of me.

 

And looking high up into the sky

I breathe as the water streams over me...

 

 

 

 

FEEL

 

You feel me

away far too empty, oh so alone!

I want to go home

Oh find me inside of a nocturne - the blonde

how I love you to be by my side

they wail...

the crowd on her side

she straggled the bridge by the water...

 

She misses her crawl

far lay grew

heady aside in a dell

inside an eye be the lonely one, my bride

how I leave on the waddling wheel

they flail...

a gasp shringing

a bad bell's ringing

the angel - the daughter...

 

You feel me...

 

 

 

  

IF IT'S IN YOU

 

Yes I'm thinking of this, yes I am

puddle town, Tom was the underground

hold you tighter so close, yes you are

please hold on to the steel rail

 

colonel with gloves

he isn't loved on 'Sundays Mail'

all the fives crock Henrietta

she's mean go-getter

gotta write her a letter.

 

Did I wink of this, I am

yum, yummy, yum, don't, yummy, yum, yom, yom...

Yes, I'm thinking of this, in steam

skeleton kissed to the steel rail

 

fleas in Pamela

chugging along with a funnel of steam

all the fives crock Henrietta

she's mean go-getter

gotta write her a letter...

 

 

 

LATE NIGHT

 

When I woke up today

and you weren't there to play

then I wanted to be with you

when you showed me your eyes

whispered love at the skies

then I wanted to stay with you

inside me I feel alone and unreal

and the way you kiss will always be

a very special thing to me...

 

When I lay still at night seeing

stars high and light

then I wanted to be with you

when the rooftops shone dark

all alone (I) saw a spark

spark of love just to stay with you

inside me I feel alone and unreal

and the way you kiss will always be

a very special thing to me...

 

If I mention your name

turn around on a chain

then the sky opens for you

when we grew very tall

when I saw you so small

then I wanted to stay with you

inside me I feel alone and unreal

and the way you kiss will always be

a very special thing to me...

 

 

 

From the album “Barrett”

 

 

BABY LEMONADE

 

In the sad town

cold iron hands clap

the party of clowns outside

rain falls in gray far away

please, please, Baby Lemonade

 

In the evening sun going down

when the earth streams in, in the morning

send a cage through the post

make your name like a ghost

please, please, Baby Lemonade

 

I'm screaming, I met you this way

you're nice to me like ice

in the clock they sent through a washing machine

come around, make it soon, so alone...

please, please, Baby Lemonade

 

In the sad town

cold iron hands clap

the party of clowns outside

rain falls in gray far away

please, please, Baby Lemonade

 

In the evening sun going down

when the earth streams in, in the morning

send a cage through the post

make your name like a ghost

please, please, Baby Lemonade

 

 

 

LOVE SONG

 

I knew a girl and I like her still

she said she knew she would trust me

and I her will...

I said: OK baby, tell me what you'll be

and I'll lay my head down and see what I see.

By the time she was back

by her open eyes

I knew that I was in for a big surprise.

 

I knew a girl and I like her still

she said she knew she would trust me

and I her will...

I said: OK baby, tell me what you'll be

and I'll lay my head down and see what I see.

By the time she was back

by her open eyes

I knew that I was in for a big surprise.

 

 

 

DOMINOES

 

It's an idea, someday

in my tears, my dreams

don't you want to see her proof?

Life that comes of no harm

you and I, you and I and dominoes, the day goes by...

 

You and I in place

wasting time on dominoes

a day so dark, so warm

life that comes of no harm

you and I and dominoes, time goes by...

 

Fireworks and heat, someday

hold a shell, a stick or play

overheard a lark today

losing when my mind's astray

don't you want to know with your pretty hair

stretch your hand, glad feel,

in an echo for your way.

 

It's an idea, someday...

 

It's an idea, someday

in my tears, my dreams

don't you want to see her proof?

Life that comes of no harm

you and I, you and I and dominoes, the day goes by...

 

 

 

IT IS OBVIOUS

 

It is obvious

may I say, oh baby, that it is found on another plane?

Yes I can creep into cupboards, sleep in the hall

your stars - my stars, a simple cock bar

only an impulse - pie in the sky

mumble listen dolly

drift over your mind - holly

creep into bed when your head's on the ground

she held the torch on the porch,

she winked an eye

 

Reason it is written on the brambles

stranded on the spikes - my blood red, oh listen:

remember those times I could call

through the clear day

time - be there...

braver and braver, a handkerchief waver

the louder you lips to a loud hailer

growing together, they ('re) growing each either

no wondering, stumbling, fumbling

rumbling minds shot together,

our minds shot together...

 

So equally over a valley, a hill

wood on quarry stood, each of us crying

a velvet curtain of gray

mark the blanket where the sparrows play

and the trees by the waving corn stranded

my legs move the last empty inches to you

the softness, the warmth from the weather in suspense

mote to a grog - the star a white chalk

minds shot together, our minds shot together...

 

 

 

RATS

 

Got it hit down

spot knock inside a spider

says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

says: "That's love - All know it

TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it...

"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

 

like the fall that brings me to

I like the fall that brings me to

I like the cord around sinew

I make a cord around sinew

 

Duck, the way to least is less

Tea craving of the metal west

'ell tomorrow's rain and test

'ell tomorrow's rain and test

Love an empty sun and guess

Love an empty sun and guess

pimples dangerous and blessed

 

Heaving, arriving, tinkling

mingling jets and statuettes

seething wet we meeting fleck

seething wet we meeting fleck

lines and winds and crib and half

each fair day I give you half

of each fair day I give you half

I look into your eyes and you,

flathe in the sun for you...

 

Bam, spastic, tactile engine

heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham

I'll have them, fried bloke

broken jardy, cardy , smoocho, moocho , paki, pufftle

sploshette moxy, very smelly,

cable, gable, splintra, channel

top the seam he's taken off

 

rats, rats lay down flat

we don't need you, we act like that

and if you think you're un-loved

then we know about that...

rats, rats, lay down flat!

yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!

 

 

 

MASIE

 

Maisie , Maisie, Maisie , Maisie...

bad luck, bride of a bull

strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light

Maisie , his illuminous grin put her in a spin

Maisie , lay in the hall

with diamonds and emeralds

Maisie , Maisie...

bad luck - the bride of a bull

 

Maisie lay in the wall with her emeralds

and diamond brooch, beyond reproach

bad luck - bride of a bull

strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light...

Maisie !

 

 

 

 

GIGOLO  AUNT

 

Grooving around in a trench coat

with the satin on trail

Seems to be all around in tin and lead pail, we pale

Jiving on down to the beach

to see the blue and the gray

seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day!

 

Will you please keep on the track

'cause I almost want you back

'cause I know what you are

you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!

Yes I know what you are

you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!

 

Heading down with the light, the dust in your way

she was angrier than, than her watershell male

life to this love to me - heading me down to me

thunderbird shale

seems to be all and it's rosy - it's a beautiful day!

will you please keep on the track

'cause I almost want you back

'cause I know what you are

you are a gigolo aunt

 

Grooving on down in a knapsack superlative day

some wish she move and just as she can move jiving away

she made the scene should have been-superlative day

everything's all and it's rosy, it's a beautiful day

will you please keep on the track

'cause I almost want you back

'cause I know what you are

you are a gigolo aunt...

 

 

 

WAVING MY ARMS IN THE AIR

 

Waving my arms in the air

love, my love, got no care

no care, no, no, pressing my feet to the ground

stand up right where you stand

call to you and what do you do

laying back in a chair?

she's so high on the air

she's so high on the air

half and half, half and half

all you have to do to call

is hold her hand, stand a while

and then smile and we'll understand

yes we do - yes, yes we do!

Oh what a girl I've got too!

Oh what a girl I've got too!

with her slinky look she held her tie to her hair

(and I) could see everywhere

no-one in the land, no-one

no-one in the land, no-one

but it rains on Saturday - cats and dogs in the way

stormy day, hey, hey

and you shouldn't try to be

what you can't be

and you shouldn't try to be

what you can't be

call to you and what do you do

 

 

I NEVER LIED TO YOU

 

There will be shoulders pressing in the hall

and I won't know if you're here at all

there will be wine and drinking in the yard

there won't be anybody very hard

there will be lots of things that we can do

and all and more will be for you

everything I knew I tried with you

but everything to you was never easy

so I went ahead around my world

I saw the things you do arriving by your side

to see you looking too

but I know this. I know, I never lied to you

it's been just like you're gone

for just one day for so long!

It's been so hard to bear with you not there

but though I think of you, the things you do

when I'm with you, to be with you,

to be alone...can only think:

"Why I am here? What's meant to be?"

 

 

 

WINED AND DINED

 

Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!

Girl was so kind.

kind of love I'd never seen

only last summer, it's not so long ago...

just last summer, now musk winds blow...

 

Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!

Girl was so kind.

kind of love I'd never seen

only last summer, it's not so long ago...

just last summer, now musk winds blow...

 

Chalk underfoot, life I should prove

dancing in heat, our love and you...

 

Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!

Girl was so kind.

kind of love I'd never seen

only last summer, it's not so long ago...

just last summer, now musk winds blow...

 

 

 

WOLFPACK

 

Howling the pack in formation appears

diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead

waving us back in formation,

the pack in formation

bowling they bat as a group

and the leader is seen - so early...

the pack on their backs, the fighters

through misty the waving - the pack in formation

far reaching waves

on sight, shone right

I lay as if in surround...

all enmeshing, hovering...

the milder I gaze

all the animals laying trail

beyond the far winds

mild the reflecting electricity eyes...

tears, the life that was ours

grows sharper and stronger away and beyond

short wheeling - fresh spring

gripped with blanched bones - moaned

magnesium, proverbs and sobs...

howling the pack in formation appears

diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead

waving us back in formation,

the pack in formation...

 

 

 

EFFERVESCING ELEPHANT

 

An Effervescing Elephant

with tiny eyes and great big trunk

once whispered to the tiny ear

the ear of one inferior

that by next June he'd die, oh yeah!

because the tiger would roam.

The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home!

and every time I hear a growl

I'll know the tiger's on the prowl

and I'll be really safe, you know

the elephant he told me so."

Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!

and the message was spread

to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus

who wallowed in the mud and chewed

his spicy hippo-plankton food

and tended to ignore the word

preferring to survey a herd

of stupid water bison, oh yeah!

And all the jungle took fright,

and ran around for all the day and the night

but all in vain, because, you see,

the tiger came and said: "Who me?!

You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.

I'd much prefer something to chew

and you're all to scant." oh yeah!

He ate the Elephant

 

 

From the album “Opel”

 

 

OPEL

 

On a distant shore, miles from land

Stands the ebony totem in ebony sand

A dream in a mist of gray...

On a far distant shore...

 

The pebble that stood alone

And driftwood lies half buried

Warm shallow waters sweep shells

So the cockles shine...

 

A bare winding carcass, stark

Shimmers as flies scoop up meat, an empty way...

Dry tears...

Crisp flax squeaks tall reeds

Make a circle of gray in a summer way, around man

Stood on ground...

 

I'm trying

I'm trying to find you!

To find you

I'm living, I'm giving,

To find you, To find you,

I'm living, I'm living,

I'm trying, I'm giving

 

I’m drowning…  

I’m drowning…

 

 

 

CLOWNS AND JUGGLERS

 

Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'

you have no word

trip, trip to a dream dragon

hide your wings in a ghost tower

sails cackling at every plate we break

was cracked by scattered needles

the little minute gong

coughs and clears his throat

madam you see before you stand

hey ho, never be still

the old original favorite grand

grasshoppers green Herbarian band

and the tune they play is "In Us Confide"

so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'

you have no word

Please leave us here

close our eyes to the octopus ride!

 

Isn't it good to be lost in the wood

isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood

meant even less to me than I thought

with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds

clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...

the madcap laughed at the man on the border

hey ho, huff the Talbot

the winds they blew and the leaves did wag

they'll never put me in their bag

the raging seas will always seep

so high you go, so low you creep

the wind it blows in tropical heat

the drones they throng on mossy seats

the squeaking door will always squeak

two up, two down we'll never meet

Please leave us here

close our eyes to the octopus ride!

 

Please leave us here

close our eyes to the octopus ride!

 

Whispering:

Sit up, up, touching hips

to a madcap galloping chase

"Cheat" he cried shooting kangaroo

it's true in their tree he cried

 

Please leave us here

close our eyes to the octopus ride!

The madcap laughed at the man on the border

hey ho, huff the Talbot

 

 

 

DOLLY ROCKER

 

(Dolly Rocker... It's called Dolly Rocker... It's an old make of dress...

Well, months old, you know.. that sort of thing)

 

I know a sweet girl

she done went out and paid for me

was a sweet girl

after five we went for tea

She seen a Dolly Rocker

She want a girl, she got her

I wanna see her, I know I do

I love you darling, all for you.

 

You want to meet Pearl?

she's as cute as a squirrel's nut.

She done seen me

said she thought she got the lot.

She's a Dolly Rocker

want to wait 'till I got her

said she knew I know we know I do

said she gotta see me lonely with you.

 

Oceans may travel, away too long

senses in the gravel, to see yourself at home

nice to be at home

all I'll ever do forever

all my life, you see, when you got her

all I know, you know, I show you, baby

through your head push to you, baby

is a Dolly Rocker.

She know what she got her

She seen a Dolly Rocker

She seen a Dolly Rocker

 

 

 

WORD SONG (UNTITLED WORDS)

 

(We're running)

 

Stained, glaucous, glycerin , gold, goat, clover

gold, local stocks, type, food, wild, national, lake, flag,

valve, gyroscope, sect

heat, helium, lead, bare, state, invention, medieval

refraction, faction, ultra-action,

hunter, interest, bullet, market...

 

Loads, liquids, neon, heater, jaws, jungle

mains, signal, knives, kitchen

ingot, lovely, mirror, mold

Mycenaean, moat, poppy, rubber,

radar, rags, sugar, teak

silver, poke, tin, beetroot,

carrot, ebony, fruit, copper, silk...

 

Carpet, distant, pigmy, hid, pack,

timber, pudding, straw

raindrops, spattering, ramps

chameleon, prairie, pods, trigger

museum, scales, square, ultra, out of map, vent

volcano, vain, wreck, tactic

tidal, arches, valley, hand

inflect, impression, loom, last, molten

you gamma, meeting

lighting, signal, island, coral-cold

 

 

 

 

SWAN LEE (SILAS LANG)

 

Swan Lee got up at the Running Foot pow-wow,

heading from the fire to his waiting canoe.

Chattering Squaw untied the wigwam door,

the chief blew smoke rings two by two!

 

The land in silence stands...

 

Swan Lee, his boat by the bank in the darkness,

loosened the rope in the creek is entwined.

A feather from the wing of a wild young eagle,

pointed to the land where his fortune he'd find

 

The land in silence stands

 

Swan Lee paddled on from the land of his fathers,

his eyes scanned the undergrowth on either side.

From the shore hung a hot, heavy, creature infested

tropic, Swan Lee had a bow by his side

 

The land in silence stands

 

Swan Lee kept time, half on land, half on water,

Grizzly bear and raccoon his fare.

He followed his ears to the great water fall,

Swan Lee knew deep down that his squaw  was there!

 

The land in silence stands....

 

Suddenly the rush of the mighty great thunder,

confronted Swan Lee as his song he sang,

In the dawn, with his squaw, he was battling homewards

It was all written down by Long Silas Lang.

 

The land in silence stands...

The land in silence stands...

The land in silence stands.

 

 

 

BIRDIE HOP

 

Birdie hop, he do, he hop along

a lonely bird upon a window there, he, he,

there he blow, a windy snow, he knew the snow, the hoppy bird

 

The antelope ride around a parasol

just to see if he's a man enough to you meet you in the sand pit

in a flying kind of sighing in a meddlesome

bay you know the way, I see the flies

 

She's a little kite the sort you think you might like to fire

and like a kite you get to see her every night

you know the way she's only paving her way,

hate to complain, I see the flies

 

Birdie hop he do, he hop along

a lonely bird upon a window there, he, he

there he blow, the windy snow, a hoppy bird

 

A camel woke up to a polished dawn

wouldn't look to see his feet had gone,

he wouldn't like it, wouldn't have the strength to fight it,

I see the flies

 

I'm the only bird, a little third, I lost a quarter,

I had a yearning to be earning just a dollar a day

and in a way you shouldn't like it hate to complain,

I see the flies

 

 

LET'S SPLIT

 

Everything about,

about to go out,

me out, you out,

yes and everything is out

about, out...

out, out, out, out, out, out,

Let's split!

I'm telling you this is it!

 

Everything is down,

and hound, hound, hound

back down, down, down

even everything is down

abound and down,

down, down, down, down, down, down

Let's split!

Tellin ' you this is it!

 

Nobody is right tonight,

night, height, right, tight,

it isn't right

Me out, you out

And everything is out

out, out, out, out, out, out

Let's split!

 

 

 

WOULDN'T YOU MISS ME

 

Oh where are you now

pussy willow that smiled on this leaf?

When I was alone you promised the stone from your heart

my head kissed the ground

I was half the way down, treading the sand

please, please, lift a hand

I'm only a person whose armbands beat

on his hands, hang tall

won't you miss me?

Wouldn't you miss me at all?

 

The poppy birds way

swing twigs coffee brands around

brandish her wand with a feathery tongue

my head kissed the ground

I was half the way down, treading the sand

please, please, lift the hand

I'm only a person with Eskimo chain

I tattooed my brain...

Won't you miss me?

Wouldn't you miss me at all?

 

 

MILKY WAY

 

What'd you ever say today when you're in the milky way

oh tell me please

just to give you a squeeze

if I met you - I told you what to do

seems a while

since I could smile the way you do...

 

how many times, if I try, if I may,

when you're in the milky way

half of your time - beside me only atmosphere

the singular raised by heats and wet

seems a while

since I could smile the way you do...

 

What can anyone mean to you

standing in the milky way

take life easy, I mean so easy

Why so empty...?

I told you - I can tell you

what to do - when I hold you

and I tell you "I love you"

I feel that I'm way you do...

 

Give a grasp of life today

when you're in the milky way

oh, try to please! Knock on wood of the trees

glad you, mold you, mold you and hold you

means five miles

and everyway for you...

 

 

 

From the album “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn”

 

 

ASTRONOMY DOMINE

 

Lime and limpid green, a second scene

The fight between the blue you once knew.

Floating down, the sound resounds

Around the icy waters underground.

Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titanium,

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 sound surrounds the icy waters under...

Lime and limpid green, the sound surrounds the icy waters underground.

 

 

 

LUCIFER SAM

 

Lucifer Sam, siam cat.

Always sitting by your side

Always by your side.

That cat's something I can't explain.

 

Jennifer Gentle you're a witch.

You're the left side

He's the right side.

Oh, no!

That cat's something I can't explain.

 

Lucifer go to sea.

Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat.

Somewhere, anywhere.

That cat's something I can't explain.

 

At night prowling sifting sand.

Hiding around on the ground.

He'll be found when you're around.

That cat's something I can't explain.

 

 

 

MATILDA MOTHER

 

There was a king who ruled the land.

His majesty was in command.

With silver eyes the scarlet eagle

Showers silver on the people.

Oh Mother, tell me more.

 

Why d'ya have to leave me there

Hanging in my infant air waiting?

You only have to read the lines

They're scribbly black and everything shines.

 

Across the stream with wooden shoes

With bells to tell the king the news

A thousand misty riders climb up

Higher once upon a time.

Wandering and dreaming

The words have different meaning.

Yes they did.

 

For all the time spent in that room

The doll's house, darkness, old perfume

And fairy stories held me high on

Clouds of sunlight floating by.

Oh Mother, tell me more

Tell me more.

 

 

 

FLAMING

 

Alone in the clouds all blue

Lying on an eiderdown.

Yippee! You can't see me

But I can you.

 

Lazing in the foggy dew

Sitting on a unicorn.

No fair, you can't hear me

But I can you.

 

Watching buttercups cup the light

Sleeping on a dandelion.

Too much, I won't touch you

But then I might.

 

Screaming through the starlit sky

Traveling by telephone.

Hey ho, here we go

Ever so high.

 

Alone in the clouds all blue

Lying on an eiderdown.

Yippee! You can't see me

But I can you.

 

 

 

THE GNOME

 

I want to tell you a story

About a little man

If I can.

A gnome named Grimble Grumble.

And little gnomes stay in their homes.

Eating, sleeping, drinking their wine.

 

He wore a scarlet tunic,

A blue green hood,

It looked quite good.

He had a big adventure

Amidst the grass

Fresh air at last.

 

Wining, dining, biding his time.

And then one day - hooray!

Another way for gnomes to say

Hooray.

 

Look at the sky, look at the river

Isn't it good?

Look at the sky, look at the river

Isn't it good -

winding, finding places to go.

And then one day - hooray!

Another way for gnomes to say

Hooray.

Hooray.

 

 

 

CHAPTER 24

 

All movement is accomplished in six stages

And the seventh brings return.

The seven is the number of the young light

It forms when darkness is increased by one.

Change returns success

Going and coming without error.

Action brings good fortune.

Sunset.

 

The time is with the month of winter solstice

When the change is due to come.

Thunder in the other course of heaven.

Things cannot be destroyed once and for all.

Change returns success

Going and coming without error.

Action brings good fortune.

Sunset, sunrise.

 

All movement is accomplished in six stages

And the seventh brings return.

The seven is the number of the young light

It forms when darkness is increased by one.

Change returns success

Going and coming without error.

Action brings good fortune.

Sunset, sunrise.

 

 

 

THE SCARECROW

 

The black and green scarecrow as everyone knows

Stood with a bird on his hat and straw everywhere.

He didn't care.

He stood in a field where barley grows.

 

His head did no thinking

His arms didn't move except then the wind cut up

Rough and mice ran around on the ground

He stood in a field where barley grows.

 

The black and green scarecrow is sadder than me

But now he's resigned to his fate

'Cause life's not unkind - he doesn't mind.

He stood in a field where barley grows.

 

 

 

BIKE

 

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.

It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good.

I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.

 

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.

I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

 

I've got a cloak. It's a bit of a joke.

There's a tear up the front. It's red and black, I've had it for months.

If you think it could look good, then I guess it should.

 

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.

I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

 

I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house.

I don't know why. I call him Gerald.

He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.

 

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.

I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

 

I've got a clan of gingerbread men.

Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men.

Take a couple if you wish. They're on the dish.

 

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.

I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

 

I know a room of musical tunes.

Some rhyme, some ching. Most of them are clockwork.

Let's go into the other room and make them work.

 

 

 

The 1st 3 Singles/Jugband Blues

 

 

ARNOLD LAYNE

(single)

 

Arnold Layne had a strange hobby

Collecting clothes

Moonshine, washing line

They suit him fine

On the wall, hung a tall mirror

Distorted view, see through baby blue

Oh, Arnold Layne

It's not the same, takes two to know

Two to know, two to know -

Why can't you see?

Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne

 

Now he's caught - a nasty sort of person.

They gave him time

Doors clang - chain gang - he hates it

Oh, Arnold Layne

It's not the same, takes two to know

Two to know, two to know

Why can't you see?

Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne

 

Don't do it again

 

 

 

CANDY AND A CURRANT BUN (LET'S ROLL ANOTHER ONE)

 

B-side of 1st single w/ Arnold Layne as A-side

Released 11 Mar.'67

 

Oh my, girl sitting in the sun

go buy, candy and a currant bun

I like to see you run

Like that...

 

Oooh , don't talk to me

Please just fuck with me

Please you know I'm feeling frail

 

It's true, sun shining very bright

It's you, who I'm gonna love tonight

Ice cream, taste good in the afternoon

Ice cream, taste good if you eat it soon

 

Oooh , don't touch me child

Please, you know you drive me wild

Please, you know I'm feeling frail

 

Don't try another cat

Don't go where other - you must know why

Very very very frail

Oh my, girl sitting in the sun

Go buy, candy and a currant bun

I like to see you run

Lay back...

Advision studio acetate version

 

 

Oh, my girl sitting in the sun

Go buy candy and a currant bun

I'm high don't try to spoil the fun

Go cry we'll have another one

 

Oooh , don't touch me child

Please y'know you drive me wild

Please y'know I'm feeling frail

 

It's true sun shining very bright

It's you I'm gonna love tonight

Ice cream taste good if you eat it right

Ice cream taste good if you treat it right

 

Oooh, don't talk to me

Please just walk with me

Please y'know i'm feeling frail

 

Oh, my girl sitting in the sun

Go buy candy and a currant bun

I'm high don't try to spoil the fun

Go cry we'll have another one

Oooh , don't touch me child

Please y'know you drive me wild

Please y'know I'm feeling frail

 

 

 

SEE EMILY PLAY

(Single)

 

Emily tries but misunderstands,

She’s often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow

 

There is no other day

Let's try it another way

You'll lose your mind and play

Free games for May

See Emily play

 

Soon after dark Emily cries,

Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow

 

There is no other day

Let's try it another way

You'll lose your mind and play

Free games for May

See Emily play

 

Put on a gown that touches the ground,

Float on a river forever and ever, Emily

 

There is no other day

Let's try it another way

You'll lose your mind and play

Free games for May

See Emily play

 

 

  

APPLES AND ORANGES

(single)

 

Got a flip-top pack of cigarettes in her pocket

Feeling good at the top

Shopping in sharp shoes

Walking in the sunshine town -

feeling very cool

But the butchers and the bakers and the supermarket stores

Getting everything she wants from the supermarket stores

Apples and oranges

Apples and oranges

 

Cornering neatly she trips up sweetly

To meet the people

She's on time again

And then

I catch her by the eye

then I stop and have to think

What a funny thing to do 'cause I'm feeling very pink

Apples and oranges

Apples and oranges

 

I love she

She loves me

See you

See you

See you

 

Thought you might like to know

I'm her lorry driver man

She's on the run

Down by the river side

feeding ducks in the afternoon time

Apples and oranges

Apples and oranges

Apples and oranges

 

 

JUGBAND  BLUES

(from the album "A Saucerful of Secrets")

 

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here

And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear

That I'm not here.

And I never knew the moon could be so big

And I never knew the moon could be so blue

And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes

And brought me here instead dressed in red

And I'm wondering who could be writing this song …

 

I don't care if the sun don't shine

And I don't care if nothing is mine

And I don't care if I'm nervous with you

I'll do my loving in the winter.

 

And the sea isn't green…

And I love the queen…

And what exactly is a dream

And what exactly is a joke?

 

 

 

Unreleased songs / Other stuff

 

 

 

SCREAM THY LAST SCREAM

 

The song was planned as Pink Floyd's third single together with She Was A Millionaire.

But none of the songs were ever released on official albums or singles.

The song can be heard on bootleg studio outtakes, recordings from BBC Top Gear February 11, 1968 - and Starclub, Copenhagen, September 13 1967.

 

Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,

plan, plan your pointers, point your pointers,

waddle with apples

to crunchy Mrs. Stores,

she'll be scrubbing bottles on all fours...

 

Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,

fling your arms madly

old lady with a daughter,

flat top of houses, mouses, houses,

piddle and diddle sitting fat...

 

watching the telly till all hours, silly child

fling your arms madly

old lady with a daughter

 

 

Scream thy last scream (alternate lyrics)

 

Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket

Blam blam your pointers point your pointers

What'll be to crunch in your sisters

She'll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours

 

Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket

Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter

Flack chap chau fauses , mouses, houses

Flittin and hittin and fittin quack quack

 

Watching the telly till all hours big time

Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter

 

Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket

Blam blam your pointers point your pointers

What'll be coming to crunch in your sisters

She'll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours

Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket

 

 

VEGETABLE MAN

The song is only to find on various bootleg albums.

Most are recorded live, but the song was also recorded for the BBC-show TOP GEAR December 19, 1967.

Near the end of the song is a small quote from the 'Batman' theme .

 

In yellow shoes

I get the blues,

So I walk the street with my plastic feet

with blue velvet trousers make me feel pink.

Theres a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers

 

In my paisley shirt,

I look a jerk,

and my turquoise waistcoat is quite out of sight.

But oh, oh, my haircut looks so bad....

Vegetable man! Where are you?

 

So I've changed my dear, and I find my knees,

And I covered them up with the latest cut,

And my pants and socks all point in a box,

They don't make long of my nylon socks,

The watch, black watch

My watch with a black face

And a big pin, a little hole,

And all the lot is what I got,

It's what I wear, it's what you see,

It must be me, it's what I am,

Vegetable man.

 

I've been looking all over the place for a place for me,

But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere.

He's the kind of fellow you just gotta see if you can,

Vegetable man.

 

 

SNOWING

(alternate intro to Matilda Mother)

These lyrics appeared in "Dust and Guitars" codex #1.

They are from a the '66 gig list live recording of "Matilda Mother" on the "Rhamadan" CD. and were sung as an intro to this song.

 

There's always someone in the know

That drives that dogsled in the snow

Oh driver! I'll be bored

Why did you possess them so?

When you heard children at the door

Waiting!

You haven't heard the last of it

All locked yourself in side all that snow

As predicted in the night

ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

And I will swallow lumps of snow

Lumps and ugly dumpling pie

Oh brother! I mean more

Why did you posses them so

When you heard children at the door

Waiting!

So how'd you think you'd think you'd feel

All locked yourself inside all that snow

 

 

 

LUCY LEAVE

Early Barrett song recorded on the first demotape late 1965.

The band did not yet have the name Pink Floyd and guitarist Bob Klose was part of the band at the time.

The song has not been officially released. The demo version is released with an Italian book from 1996.

 

Please fall away from me, Lucy,

oh, go little girl.

See that I'm so broken up about you, Lucy,

Mean treating me and done me harm, Lucy,

Being in love with you and your charms, Lucy,

 oh, go little girl

I'm in love with you, Lucy,

You got my heart, you got my heart, Oh no,

You tear me apart, you just won't let me go,

You hold on so tight, so tight I just can't breathe,

Now Lucy leave, Lucy...

 

Leave when I ask you to leave, little girl,

Please fall away from me, little girl,

yeah, go little girl.

See that I'm so broke up about you, Lucy,

Yeah, Go...

 

 

 

BOB DYLAN BLUES

 

Got the Bob Dylan blues

And the Bob Dylan shoes

And my clothes and my hair’s in a mess

But you know I just couldn’t care less

 

Gonna write me a song

Bout’ what’s right and what’s wrong

Bout’ god and my girl and all that

Quiet while I make like a cat

 

Cause I’m a poet

Don’t you know it

And the wind, you can blow it

Cause I’m Mr. Dylan, the king

And I’m free as a bird on the wing

 

Roam from town to town

Guess I get people down

But I don’t care too much about that

Cause my gut and my wallet are fat

 

Make a whole lotta dough

But I deserve it though

I’ve got soul and a good heart of gold

So I’ll sing about war in the cold

 

Cause I’m a poet

Don’t you know it

And the wind, you can blow it

Cause I’m Mr. Dylan, the king

And I’m free as a bird on the wing

 

Well I sing about dreams

And I rhymes it with seems

Cause it seems that my dream always means

That I can prophesy all kinds of things

 

Well the guy that digs me

Should try hard to see

That he buys all my discs and a hat

And when I’m in town go see that

 

 

 

KING BEE

 

“ I'm a King Bee" was written and first recorded by James Moore ( aka Slim Harpo), b.1924 - d.1970. Moore was a rhythm and blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player from Louisiana. He recorded 'King Bee' in Crowley, Louisiana and it was released in 1957 on the Excello label as a "answer song" to "Bumble Bee", which had been written and recorded by Lizzie Douglas McCoy (Memphis Minnie). Slim Harpo had other R&B and rock and roll crossover hits in the 1960s such as "Raining in My Heart" (1961) and "Baby Scratch My Back" (1966) and he toured with James Brown at Madison Square Garden and appeared in the Whiskey A-Go-Go in 1968. If all his songs, "I'm a King Bee" was most often covered by white rock and roll bands including the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, and Pink Floyd.

 

Recorded in demo sessions 1965, but not officially released.

The name Pink Floyd was not yet being used and guitarist Bob Klose was part of the band at the time.
The demo version is released with an Italian book from 1996.

 

Well, I'm a King Bee

Buzzing around your hive

Yes, I'm a King Bee, child

Buzzing around your hive

 

I can make good honey

Let me come inside

I'm young and able

To buzz all night long

You know I'm young and able

To buzz all night long

 

 When you hear me buzz, little girl

You know some stinging's going on

(Well, buzz some) I'll sting (yeah)

 

 Well, I'm a King Bee

Can buzz all night long

Yes I'm a King Bee

Can buzz all night long

 

 Well, I buzz better baby,

When your man is gone.

 

 

 

Stanley the simpleton   

 

(This song definitely sounds like an unreleased Syd Barrett song from the Pink Floyd period,

 but it is most likely a quite talented fake. The song has circulated as an mp3 file on the web.

 Original source unknown.)

 

 

Stanley the simpleton

He's not to blame

Never be a genius

And it's quite a shame

Stanley the simpleton

Simpleton ways

Simpleton mind and

Simpleton brain

 

 

 

ROOFTOP IN A THUNDERSTORM ROW MISSING THE POINT  

(could be a poem written by a Barrett fan)

 

With yellow, red and roomy food, and quivered

crouching on a golden cushion

undressed himself to disappear

through an infinity of pleasure

and smiled to free the running me

with "Am I my brother's keeper?"

his meek hand on devils gloves

shaping running blood.

 

The prophecy, to recreate the truth

in visions of a seasonal mood

in truth, the only sight he saw

lay hidden in the bathroom door

and spat on the rug

as high is high, so low is low

and that's the end of it.

 

 

   

TWO OF A KIND

(On Peel Sessions. Though Syd is credited as the author of the song, it is generally believed that it was

Rick Wright who actually wrote it.)

 

Open your eyes and don't be blind

can't you see we're two of a kind?

I've got to say this, I hope you don't mind

I love you, we're two of a kind

 

Just ask yourself and you will find

we go together, we're two of a kind

no use protesting, be resigned

baby you know, we're two of a kind

 

I knew it when I saw you

I felt it a little more when

I talked with you at first

all my blues dispersed

I couldn't disguise

my complete surprise

when you were feeling it too

I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you...

 

Open your eyes and don't be blind

can't you see we're two of a kind?

I've got to say this, I hope you don't mind

I love you, we're two of a kind

 

 

  

Millionaire / She was a millionaire  (One In A Million - ?)

(Pink Floyd 1967.   Lyrics/Music: Barrett (?)

The song was in July 1967 announced as the next single from Pink Floyd.

But the band was not satisfied with it and it was not released.

Syd Barrett recorded it again for a solo album in 1970, but again it was not used.)

 

Would you like to be way loyal?

Would you like to be way down?
You'd been turning to a boy you won't be
Did they tell you you'd been heard to lie?

Round and round and round and round
You fly...

Do you want to pull the curtain down?
Mother hold'em down
I'm bound, I'm bound,
Involved and tortured!
Pretty woman hold my hand

Million, million, millionaire
Million, million, millionaire

Would you like to be where you want?
Would you like to be where you are?
Did they tell you, you were young and willing?
Did they tell you you'd been kicked a lot?

Round and round and round and round
You fly...

Would you like to be well loyal?
Would you like to be weighed down?
Did they tell you you was growin' on me?
Did they tell you you'd be little I?

Round and round and round and round
You fly...

Do you want to put the curtain down?
Mother hold him down (bad boy!)
I'm bound, I'm bound,
I'm bound and tortured!
Pretty woman hold my hand!

Million, million, millionaire
Million, million,million-aire!

Would you like to be well loyal?
Would you like to be where you are?
Did they tell you, you were young and willing?
Did they tell you You've been gigolot?

Round and round and round and round
You fly..

 

 

ONE IN A MILLION

(Lyrics/music: ?

Unreleased song.

Performed live in Copenhagen September 13, 1967.)

 

Would you like to be one in a million?

Would you like to be one in five?

Would you like to know all the hidden meanings?

Before they tell you that you've run out of time

 

Would you like to be one in a million?

Would you like to be one in five?

When they tell you that you ain't going nowhere

When they tell you that you can't live your life

 

 

 

BEECHWOODS / IN THE BEECHWOOD /

DOWN IN THE BEECHWOODS

Pink Floyd 1967

Music/lyrics: Barrett (?)

 

Recordings were made of this song, but it has never been released.

 

 

Double-O Bo

(Pink Floyd) 1965

Lyrics/Music: Barrett

 

Early Barrett song recorded on the first demotape late 1965.

The band did not yet have the name Pink Floyd and guitarist Bob Klose was part of the band at the time.

Syd Barrett was a fan of Bo Diddley and the song was inspired of Diddley as well as James Bond 007.

The song has not been officially released.

 

 

EXPERIMENT / SUNSHINE

Pink Floyd 1967

 

Not released instrumental track from the 'Piper'-sessions.

 

 

 

REACTION IN G

Pink Floyd 1967

 

The song was played first time in UFO Club, London July 28, 1967.

A studio version was recorded for the BBC Top Gear show in October 1967.

Different bootleg recordings from 1967 are in circulation.

 

 

 

STONED ALONE / STONED AGAIN / I GET STONED/ LIVING ALONE

Pink Floyd 1966

Lyrics/music: Barrett

 

Could be the first song Syd Barrett wrote for Pink Floyd.

 It was recorded as a demo in Thompson Private Recording Studio, 1966.

The song can be found on the bootleg: 'Stoned Alone', recorded in Starclub, Copenhagen, September 13, 1967.

The song later changed into  Let's Roll Another One/Candy And A Currant Bun

 

Living alone I get stoned \ Sitting here all alone I get stoned

(the only lyrics of this song that are known to me)

 

 

 

BALLAD

Syd Barrett 1974

 

Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).

 

 

 

BLUES

Syd Barrett 1974 (?)

 

Syd Barrett recorded at least 3 versions of a blues, probably meant for a third solo-album. Only on bootleg.

 

 

 

CHOOKA-CHOOKA CHUG CHUG

Syd Barrett 1974

 

Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).

 

 

 

COUNTRY BLUES

Syd Barrett 1974

 

Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).

 

 

 

FAST BOOGIE

Syd Barrett 1974

 

Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).

 

 

 

IF YOU GO, DON'T BE SLOW

Syd Barrett 1974

 

Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).

 

 

 

JOHN LEE HOOKER

Syd Barrett 1974

 

Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).

  

 

 

RHAMADAN

Syd Barrett

 

'Rhamadan' is an unreleased Barrett instrumental.

 

 

 

SLOW BOOGIE

Syd Barrett 1974

 

Unfinished track from an unfinished Syd Barrett solo project (1974).

 

 

 

 KEVIN AYERS - Singing a song in the morning

(Kevin Ayers 1969.

Syd Barrett recorded a guitar track for this Kevin Ayers song in November 1969,

but it seems that his contributions were left out of the final mix.

Originally the song was known as Religious Experience.)

 

Singing a song in the morning

Singing it again at night

I don't even know what I’m singing about

But it makes me feel a feel alright, yeah yeah

Makes me feel a feel alright

Singing a song in the morning

Singing it again at night

I don't even know what I'm singing about

But it makes me feel a feel alright, yeah yeah

Makes me feel a feel alright, aaah aaah

 

Singing a song in the morning

Singing it again at night

I don't even know what I’m singing about

But it makes me feel a feel alright

Makes me feel a feel alright, aaah aaah

 

Singing a song in the morning

Singing it again at night

I don't even know what I’m singing about

But it makes me feel a feel alright, yeah yeah

Makes me feel a feel alright

Singing a song in the morning

Singing it again at night

I don't even know what I’m singing about

But it makes me feel a feel alright, yeah yeah

Makes me feel a feel alright

Singing a song in the morning (// cut off)

 

 

THE BEATLES - WHAT'S THE NEW MARY JANE / WHAT A SHAME MARY JANE

John Lennon, the Beatles 1968

'What the New Mary Jane' was an unreleased Beatles song until the release of Beatles Anthology 3.

An early version was titled 'What's a Shame Mary Jane'.

It is believed that John Lennon asked Syd to play on this song.

 

She looks as an African queen,

she eating twelve chapattis and cream,

she tastes as Mongolian lamb,

she coming from out of Bahran.

 

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

What a shame Mary Jane.

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

 

She like to be married with Yeti,

he grooving such cooky spaghetti,

she jumping as Mexican bean

to make that her body more thin.

 

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

What a shame Mary Jane.

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

 

She catch Patagonian pancake

with that one a gin party makes.

She having all the ways good contacts,

she making with Apple an contract.

 

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

What a shame Mary Jane.

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

 

All together now:

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

What a shame Mary Jane.

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

 

She looks as an African queen,

she tastes as Mongolian lamb.

 

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

What a shame Mary Jane.

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party.

What a shame Mary Jane.

What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party..