Below, are the combined lyrical witticisms of a certain Mr. Sydney Barrett
(Roger Keith Barrett, actually). Much time and effort has been taken in
producing this list, so if you find any errors please e-mail
me, and I'll see what I can do about it.
Vittorio
(v.moccia@pink-floyd.org)
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
I knew a girl and I like her still
DOMINOES
It's an idea, someday
You and I in place
Fireworks and heat, someday
It's an idea, someday
IT IS OBVIOUS
It is obvious
Reason it is written on the brambles
So equally over a valley, a hill
RATS
Got it hit down
like the fall that brings me to
Duck, the way to least is less
Heaving, arriving, tinkling
Bam, spastic, tactile engine
rats, rats lay down flat
MASIE
Maisie, Maisie, Maisie, Maisie...
Maisie, lay in the hall
[ Maisie lay in the wall with her emeralds
GIGOLO AUNT
Grooving around in a trench coat
Will you please keep on the track
Heading on down with the light, the dust in your way
Grooving on down in a knapsack su-perlative day
WAVING MY ARMS IN THE AIR/
Waving my arms in the air
There will be shoulders pressing in the hall
WINED AND DINED
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
Chalk underfoot, life I should prove
Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream!
she said she knew she would trust me
and I her will...
I said: OK baby, tell me what you 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.
she said she knew she would trust me
and I her will...
I said: OK baby, tell me what you 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 bigger surprise.
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...
wasting time on dominoes
a day so dark, so warm
life that comes of no harm
you and I and dominoes, time goes by...
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 out your hand, glad feel,
in an echo for your way.
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...
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 cot bars
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
stranded on the spikes - my blood red, oh listen:
remember those times I could call
through the clear day
time you'd be there...
'nd braver and braver, a handkerchief waver
the louder you lips to a loud hailer
growing together, they good of each either
no wondering, stumbling, fumbling
rumbling minds shot together,
our minds shot together...
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...
spot knock inside a spider
says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
says: "That's love - All know it
TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it...
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
I like the fall that brings me to
I like the cord around sinew
I make a cord around sinew
The deep 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
dimples dangerous and blessed
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...
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
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!
Maisie, lay in hall
with diamond and emeralds
Maisie, Maisie
bad luck, bride of a bull
strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light
his illuminous grin put her in a spin
with diamonds and emeralds
Maisie, Maisie...
bad luck - the bride of a bull
strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light...
and diamond brooch, beyond reproach
bad luck - bride of a bull
strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light...
Maisie! ]
with the satin on trail
Seems to be all around its 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!
'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!
she was angrier there, 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, you are a gigolo aunt
Yes I know what you are
you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!
some wish she move and change as she kind move jiving away
she made the scene should have been su-perlative 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, you are a gigolo aunt
Yes I know what you are
you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!
NEVER LIED TO YOU
(continuous)
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 got too!
Oh what a girl I 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 hay
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
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?"
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...
Girl was so kind.
kind of love I'd never seen
Girl was so kind.
kind of love I'd never seen
dancing in heat, our love and you...
Girl was so kind.
kind of love I'd never seen
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 clown
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 clown
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
It's no good trying to hold your love
It's no good holding your sequined fan
LOVE YOU
Honey love you, honey little,
Oh, you dig it, had to smile just an hour or so
Honey love you, honey little,
Flaking you are a nice little one
Honey love you, honey little,
Goodtime rocker woman we'll stray our pieces
Honey love you, honey little,
NO MAN'S LAND
You would hold your head up high
Just searching you even try
(last verse mostly garbled....but you can pick out Tell me, Tell
me, Tell me Yippee and also: Heavily Spaced. According to
legend, this verse was originally meant to be understood, but
when they f**ked it up in the studio, Syd liked it and kept it
that way...) - Psycho
DARK GLOBE
Oh where are you now
The poppy birds way
HERE I GO
This is a story 'bout a girl that I knew
She don't rock 'n' roll, she don't like it
I strolled around to her pad
So now I've got all I need
OCTOPUS
Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
Please leave us here
The madcap laughed at the man on the border
GOLDEN HAIR
Lean out your window, golden hair
For I heard you singing through the gloom
LONG GONE
She was long gone, long, long gone
And I stood very still by the window sill
She was long gone, long, long gone
And I borrowed the page
She was long gone long, long gone
And I stood very still by the window sill
She was long gone long, long gone.
SHE TOOK A LONG COLD LOOK
She took a long cold look at me
The end of truth that lay out the time
And looking high up into the sky
FEEL
You feel me
She misses her crawl
You feel me
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.
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 and you
know you should be home in bed.
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...
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
(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 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
to put it all around, its just good
I like it, hey hey hey
S'pose some time that day?
whoopie! swing it along over across to me
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
little creepy we shine so sleepy,
so whoopee!
That's how you look...
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
you even try
you would hold another hand:
oh understand!
They even see me under call
we under all,
we all follow foot crawl
to hear my hour
come see me cry...
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 all follow foot crawl
because of you, to see me be.
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 arm bands beats
on his hands, hang tall
won't you miss me?
Wouldn't you miss me at all?
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?
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 do the stroll, well she don't do it right
well, ev'rythings 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.
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, a-make it in style!?
She and I are in love, we've agreed
she likes this song and my others too
so now you see my world is...
'Cuz 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...
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!
close our eyes to the octopus ride!
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-[lee] limit
so merrily trip forgo my side
Please leave us here
close our eyes to the octopus ride!
(These lyrics are originally from "Chamber Music" by James Joyce (1907)
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
singing and singing, a merry air
lean out the window, golden hair...
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 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 gone, gone, the bigger they come
the larger her hand 'till no one understands
why for so long she'd been gone.
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 gone, gone, the bigger they come
the larger her hand 'till no one understands
why for so long she'd been gone.
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...
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...
spent lazing here on a painting dream
a mile or more in a foreign clime
to see farther inside of me.
I breathe as the water streams over 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...
far ley 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...
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.
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
CLOWNS AND JUGGLERS
Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
Sit up, touching hips
RATS
(see "Barrett")
GOLDEN HAIR
(see "The Madcap Laughs")
DOLLY ROCKER
(Dolly Rocker... It's called Dolly Rocker... It's an old make of dress...
I know a sweet girl
You wan' a meet Pearl?
Oceans may travel, away so long
UNTITLED WORDS
(We're running)
Stained, glaucous, glycerine, gold, goat, plover
Loads, liquids, neon, eaters, jaws, jungle
Car, distant, pigmy, hid, pack,
WINED AND DINED
(see "Barrett")
SWAN LEE (SILAS LANG)
Swan Lee got up at the Running Foot pow-wow,
The land in silence stands...
Swan Lee, his boat by the bank in the darkness,
The land in silence stands
Swan Lee paddled on from the land of his fathers,
The land in silence stands
Swan Lee kept time, half on land, half on water,
The land in silence stands....
Suddenly the rush of the mighty great thunder,
The land in silence stands...
BIRDIE HOP
Birdie Hop - he do, he hop along
The antelope ride around the parasol
Birdie Hop - he do, he hop along
A camel woke up to a polish dawn
LET'S SPLIT
Everything about,
Everything is down,
Nobody is right tonight,
<Hold it, can you?>
WOULDN'T YOU MISS ME (DARK GLOBE)
(see "The Madcap Laughs")
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 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!
to a madcap galloping chase
"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
Well, months old, you know.. that sort of thing)
she done went out and paid for me
done a sweet girl
after five we went for tea
She seen a Dolly Rocker
She wan' a girl, she got her
I wanna see her, I know I do
I love you darling, all for you.
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
wan' a wait 'till I got her
said she knew I know we know I do
said she gotta see me lonely with you.
senses in the gravel, to see yourself at home
nice to be at home
all I'll ever be 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
It's a Dolly Rocker.
She know what she got her
She seen a Dolly Rocker
She seen a Dolly Rocker
Mmmm-mm-mm
gold, local stocks, type, food, wild, national, lake, flag,
valve, gyroscope, sect
heat, helium, leg, fair, state, invention, medieval
refraction, faction, alter-action,
hunter, interest, bullock, market...
main, signal, knives, kitchen
ingot, lovey, mirror, mold
Myacene, moat, poppy, rubber,
radar, rags, sugar, teak
silver, pug, tin, beetroot,
carrot, ebony, fruit, copper, silk...
timber, pudding, straw
raindrops, pattering, ramps
chameleon, prairie, pods, trigger
museum, scales, square, ultra, pot of, map, vent
volcano, vain, wreck, tactic
tidal, arches, valley, hand
inflect, impression, loom, last, molten
you gamma, meeting
lighting, signal, Ireland, coral, cold
pleaded from the fire to his waiting canoe.
Chattering Squaw untied the wigwam door,
the chief blew smoke rings two by two!
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
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
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!
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.
a lonely bird upon a window there
he, he, there he blow
a windy snow, he knew the snow,
I know the snow, a hoppy bird
just to see if he's a man
enough to meet you in the sandpit
on a flying kind of sighing in a meddlesome day
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 -
hectochrome plane - I see the flies.
a lonely bird upon a window there
he, he, there he blow
the windy snow, he know the snow,
a hoppy bird.
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
had a yearning to be earning just a dollar a day
an' in a way you shouldn't like it, hectochrome plane
I see the flies.
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!
in hound, hound, hound
back down, down, down
even everything is down
abound in down,
down, down, down, down, down
Let's split!
Tellin' you this is it!
night, height, night, tight,
it isn't right
Me out, you out
And everything is out
out, out, out, out, out, out
Let's split!
<That's all - cheers>
BOB DYLAN BLUES
Got the Bob Dylan blues
Gonna write me a song
'Cause I'm a poet
Roam from town to town
Make a whole lotta dough
'Cause I'm a poet
Well I sings' about dreams
Well the guy that digs me
'Cause I'm a poet
And the Bob Dylan Shoes
And my clothes and my hair's in a mess
But you know I just couldn't care less
'Bout what's right and what's wrong
About god and my girl and all that
Quiet while I make like a cat
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
Guess I get people down
But I don't care too much about that's
'Cause my gut and my wallet are fat
But I deserve it though
I've got soul and a good heart of gold
So I'll sing about war in the cold
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
And I rhymes it with seems
'Cause it seems that my dream always means
That I can prophesy all kinds of things
Should try hard to see
That he buys all my discs and a hat
And when I'm in town go see that
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
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.
LUCIFER SAM
Lucifer Sam, Siam cat.
Jennifer Gentle you're a witch.
Lucifer simba go to sea.
At night prowling sifting sand.
MATILDA MOTHER
There was a king who ruled the land.
Why'd'ya have to leave me there
Across the stream with wooden shoes
For all the time spent in that room
FLAMING
Alone in the clouds all blue
Lazing in the foggy dew
Watching buttercups cup the light
Screaming through the starlit sky
Alone in the clouds all blue
THE GNOME
I want to tell you a story
He wore a scarlet tunic,
Wining, dining, biding his time.
Look at the sky, look at the river
CHAPTER 24
A movement is accomplished in six stages
The time is with the month of winter solstice
A movement is accomplished in six stages
Always sitting by your side
Always by your side.
That cat's something I can't explain.
You're the left side
He's the right side.
Oh, no!
That cat's something I can't explain.
Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat.
Somewhere, anywhere.
That cat's something I can't explain.
Hiding around on the ground.
He'll be found when you're around.
That cat's something I can't explain.
His majesty was in command.
With silver eyes the scarlet eagle
Showers silver on the people.
Oh Mother, tell me more.
Hanging in my infant air waiting?
You only have to read the lines
They're scribbly black and everything shines.
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.
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.
Lying on an eiderdown.
Yippee! You can't see me
But I can you.
Sitting on a unicorn.
No fair, you can't hear me
But I can you.
Sleeping on a dandelion.
Too much, I won't touch you
But then I might.
Traveling by telephone.
Hey ho, here we go
Ever so high.
Lying on an eiderdown.
Yippee! You can't see me
But I can you.
'bout a little man
If I can.
A gnome named Grimble Grumble.
And little gnomes stay in their homes.
Eating, sleeping, drinking their wine.
A blue green hood,
It looked quite good.
He had a big adventure
Amidst the grass
Fresh air at last.
And then one day - hooray!
Another way for gnomes to say
Whoooooooooooooooooooooam I?
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
Whoooooooooooooam I ?
Whoooooooooooooooooooooam I
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.
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.
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.
It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
And I'm much 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.
ARNOLD LAYNE
Arnold Layne had a strange hobby
Now he's caught - a nasty sort of person.
Don't do it again
CANDY AND A CURRANT BUN (LET'S ROLL ANOTHER ONE)
Oh my, girl sitting in the sun
Oooh, don't talk to me
It's true, sun shining very bright
Oooh, don't touch me child
Don't try another cat
Oh my, girl sitting in the sun
APPLES AND ORANGES
Got a flip-top pack of cigarettes in her pocket
Cornering neatly she trips up sweetly
I love she
See you
Thought you might like to know
SCREAM THY LAST SCREAM
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,
watching the telly to all hours, silly child
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket,
VEGETABLE MAN
In yellow shoes
In my paisley shirt,
So I change my gear,
and all the luck,
Ah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Vegetable man, Vegetable man,
He's the kind of fella you just gotta see if you can,
(single)
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
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
(single)
Go buy, candy and a currant bun
I like, to see you run
lay back......
Please, just fuck with me
Please, you know I'm feeling frail
It's you, I'm gonna love tonight
Ice cream, tastes good in the afternoon
Ice cream, tastes good if you eat it soon
Please you know you drive me wild
Please you know I'm feeling frail
Don't go where other -
you must know why
I'm very very very frail
Go buy, candy and a currant bun
I like, to see you run
Lay back......
(single)
Feeling good at the top
Shopping in sharp shoes
Walking in the sunshine town -
feeling very cool
But the butchers and the bakers in the supermarket stores
Getting everything she wants from the supermarket stores
Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges
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
She loves me
See you
I'm the lorry driver man
She's on the run
Down by the river side
feeding ducks by the afternoon tide
(quack quack)
Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges
(unreleased)
plan, plan your pointers, point your pointers,
waddle with apples
to crunchy Mrs. Stores,
she'll be scrubbing buffles on all fours...
fling your arms madly
old lady with a daughter,
flat top of houses, mouses, houses,
piddle and diddle sitting fat...
fling your arms madly
old lady with a daughter
plan, plan your point, this point your point,
this walk in with apples
to crunchy Mrs. Stores,
you'll be scruffing buffles on all fours...
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
(unreleased)
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
I look a jerk,
and my turquoise wasitcoat is quite outta sight.
But oh, oh, my haircut looks so bad....
Vegetable man! Where are you?
and I bugger my knees
and I cover them up with the latest cuts
My pants and socks are all in a box
It does take long to find darn old socks
The watch,
black watch,
my watch
with a black face
and a date in a little hole
its what I got,
Its what I wear,
Its what you see,
It must be me,
Its what I am!
Vegetable man! Where are you?
Hah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah - oh!
I've been looking all over the place
for a place for me
But it ain't anywhere
It just ain't anywhere.
Vegetable man. Vegetable man,
Vegetable man, Vegetable man,
Vegetable man.