The piper at the gates of dawn

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Publicado en agosto del 67

El primer LP de Pink Floyd.
Syd Barret en todo su esplendor es quien dirige la orquesta. Somos testigos de sus elucubraciones, plasmadas en este disco que es realmente un clásico. A la vanguardia de la psicodelia, con un colorido espectacular y una densidad melódico-emocional que hace que el oyente pueda apreciar hasta dónde llegó el genio Barret, teniendo su máximo ejemplo en temas como Interstellar Overdrive.

Canciones:

Astronomy Domine
Lucifer Sam
Matilda Mother
Flaming
Pow R. Toc H.
Take up thy stethoscope and walk
Interstellar overdrive
The gnome
Chapter 24
Scarecrow
Bike

 

 

1967

"Astronomy Domine" (Barrett)

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 surronds

The icy waters under

Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds

The icy waters underground.

"Lucifer Sam" (Barrett)

Lucifer Sam, siam cat.

Always sitting by your side

Always by your side.

That cat's something I can't explain.

Ginger, ginger 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" (Barrett)

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.

Aaaaaaaah

Aaaaaaaah

Aaaaaaaah

"Flaming" (Barrett)

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.

"Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (Waters)

Doctor doctor!

I'm in bed

Achin' head

Gold is lead

Choke on bread

Underfed

Gold is lead

Jesus bled

Pain is red

Are goon

Grow go

Greasy spoon

You swoon

June bloom

Music seems to help the pain

Seems to cultivate the brain.

Doctor kindly tell your wife that

I'm alive - flowers thrive - realize - realize                                                         

Realize.

"The Gnome" (Barrett)

I want to tell you a story

About a little man

If I can.

A gnome named Grimble Crumble.

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

Oooooooooomray.

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

Oooooooooomray.

Ooooooooooooooomray.

"Chapter 24" (Barrett)

A 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.

A 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" (Barrett)

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 when 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" (Barrett)

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, ev'rything 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, ev'rything 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, ev'rything 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, ev'rything if you want things.

I know a room full of musical tunes.

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

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

 

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