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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