The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn | Pink Floyd (Studio Album)

Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

released in Aug 1967

Syd Barrett – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, lead vocals

Roger Waters – bass guitar; slide whistle, percussion, gong, vocals

Richard Wright – Farfisa Combo Compact organ, piano, tack piano, Hammond organ, harmonium, celesta, cello, Lowrey organ, vibraphone, Hohner Pianet, violin, percussion, vocals

Nick Mason – drums, percussion

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1. Astronomy Domine

(Barrett)

Lime and limpid green, a second sceneA fight between the blue you once knew.Floating down, the sound resoundsAround the icy waters underground.Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, MirandaAnd 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 greenThe sounds surrounds the icy waters undergroundLime and limpid greenThe sounds surrounds the icy waters underground.

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2. Lucifer Sam

(Barrett)

Lucifer Sam, siam cat.Always sitting by your sideAlways by your side.That cat’s something I can’t explain.

Ginger, ginger you’re a witch.You’re the left sideHe’s the right side.Oh, no!That cat’s something I can’t explain.

Lucifer go to sea.Be a hip catBe 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.

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3. Matilda Mother

(Barrett)

There was a king who ruled the land.His majesty was in command.With silver eyes the scarlet eagleShowers silver on the people.Oh Mother, tell me more.

Why’d’ya have to leave me thereHanging in my infant airWaiting?You only have to read the linesThey’re scribbly black and everything shines.

Across the stream with wooden shoesWith bells to tell the king the newsA thousand misty riders climb upHigher once upon a time.

Wandering and dreamingThe words have different meaning.Yes they did.

For all the time spent in that roomThe doll’s house, darkness, old perfumeAnd fairy stories held me high onClouds of sunlight floating by.Oh Mother, tell me moreTell me more.

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4. Pow R. Toc H

(Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason)

– Instrumental –

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5. Flaming

(Barrett)

Alone in the clouds all blueLying on an eiderdown.Yippee! You can’t see meBut I can you.

Lazing in the foggy dewSitting on a unicorn.No fair, you can’t hear meBut I can you.

Watching buttercups cup the lightSleeping on a dandelion.Too much, I won’t touch youBut then I might.

Screaming through the starlit skyTraveling by telephone.Hey ho, here we goEver so high.

Alone in the clouds all blueLying on an eiderdown.Yippee! You can’t see meBut I can you.

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6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk

(Waters)

Doctor doctor!I’m in bedAchin’ headGold is leadChoke on breadUnderfedGold is leadJesus bledPain is redAre goonGrow goGreasy spoonYou swoonJune bloom

Music seems to help the painSeems to cultivate the brain.Doctor kindly tell your wife thatI’m alive – flowers thrive – realize – realizeRealize.

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7. Interstellar Overdrive

(Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason)

(Instrumental)

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8. The Gnome

(Barrett)

I want to tell you a storyAbout a little manIf 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 adventureAmidst the grassFresh air at last.Wining, dining, biding his time.And then one day – hooray!Another way for gnomes to sayOooooooooomray.

Look at the sky, look at the riverIsn’t it good?Look at the sky, look at the riverIsn’t it good?Winding, finding places to go.And then one day – hooray!Another way for gnomes to sayOooooooooomray.Ooooooooooooooomray.

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9. Chapter 24

(Barrett)

A movement is accomplished in six stagesAnd the seventh brings return.The seven is the number of the young lightIt forms when darkness is increased by one.Change returns successGoing and coming without error.Action brings good fortune.Sunset.

The time is with the month of winter solsticeWhen the change is due to come.Thunder in the other course of heaven.Things cannot be destroyed once and for all.Change returns successGoing and coming without error.Action brings good fortune.Sunset, sunrise.

A movement is accomplished in six stagesAnd the seventh brings return.The seven is the number of the young lightIt forms when darkness is increased by one.Change returns successGoing and coming without error.Action brings good fortune.Sunset, sunrise.

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10. The Scarecrow

(Barrett)

The black and green scarecrow as everyone knowsStood 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 thinkingHis arms didn’t move except when the wind cut upRough and mice ran around on the groundHe stood in a field where barley grows.

The black and green scarecrow is sadder than meBut now he’s resigned to his fate‘Cause life’s not unkind – he doesn’t mind.He stood in a field where barley grows.

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11. The Bike

(Barrett)

I’ve got a bike, you can ride it if you like.It’s got a basket, a bell that ringsAnd 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 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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Album credits source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn