Barrett. Syd Barrett.





1. 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.


2. 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 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 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.


3. 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 out your hand, glad feel, in an echo for your way.

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.


4. 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 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.

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 you'd be there. And 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.

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.


5. Rats.

Got it hit down, 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!".

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, 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.

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 unloved then we know about that. Rats, rats, lay down flat! Yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!


6. Masie.

Maisie, Maisie, Maisie, Maisie. 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.

Maisie, lay in the hall with diamonds and emeralds. Maisie, Maisie. Bad luck, the bride of a bull strode out to meet Maisie in the evening light.

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!


7. Gigolo aunt.

Grooving around in a trench coat 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! 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 on down with the light, the dust in your way. 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!

Grooving on down in a knapsack superlative day, some wish she move and change as she kind 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, you are a gigolo aunt. Yes I know what you are, you are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt!


8. 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 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.

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?".


9. 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.

Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream! Girl was so kind, kind of love I'd never seen. 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.


10. 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 bough 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.


11. 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 too scant." oh yeah! He ate the elephant.


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Año: 1970.
Procedencia de la banda: Cambridge, Inglaterra.
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The madcap laughs. Syd Barrett.




1. 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 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.


2. 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 and you know you should be home in bed.

It's no good holding your sequined 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.


3. 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 a nice little one 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 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.


4. 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 all follow foot 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 all follow foot crawl. Because of you, to see me be.

Nota del escribano: 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...).


5. 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 arm bands beats 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?


6. 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, 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.

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, a-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 '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.


7. 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! 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-[lee] limit, so merrily trip forgo my side. Please leave us here, close our eyes to the octopus ride!


8. Golden hair.

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.


9. 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.


10. 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.


11. 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 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.

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.


12. 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, strauss leeches, 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, strauss leeches, chugging along with a funnel of steam. All the fives crock Henrietta, she's mean go-getter, gotta write her a letter.


13. 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 out 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.


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Año: 1970.
Procedencia de la banda: Cambridge, Inglaterra.
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