Time To Lighten Up Or Light Up Or Both

[ZingPao]

REMEMBER PINK FLOYD AND SYD BARRETT, POOR SYD

This song, Astronomy Domine' is from 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-2lg5fpQ4

I think this song was one of their best. This old video is great. The interviewer is kind of a drag, but the video is worth watching. Note he is actually smoking on TV, ahh the good 'ol days.

I think this comment left on youtube.com is right on:

This song has all the grit and grime of 1960's garage psych BUT with a sophistication and depth never found again in the psychedelic rock world..Not just a great "psych" record but simply one of the greatest rock records of all time !

[ZingPao]

Learning to fly

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
stretched to the point of no turning back
a flight of fancy on a wind swept field
standing alone my sense reeled
a fatal attraction holding me fast, how
can I escape this irresistible grasp?
can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
tongue-tied & twisted just an earthbound misfit, I
ice is forming on the tips of my wings
unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
no navigator to guide my way home
unladened, empty and turned to stone

a soul in tension that's learning to fly
condition grounded but determined to try
can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
tongue-tied & twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

above the planet on a wing and a prayer
my grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air
across the clouds I see my shadow fly
out of the corner of my watering eye
a dream unthreatened by the morning light
could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

there's no sensation to compare with this
suspended animation, a state of bliss
can't keep my mind from the circling sky
tongue-tied & twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

[ZingPao]

RUN LIKE HELL

You better make your face up,
In your favorite disguise,
With your button-down lips,
And your roller blind eyes.
With your empty smile,
And your hungry heart,
Feel the bile rising,
From your guilty past.
With your nerves in tatters,
As the cockleshell shatters,
And the hammers batter,
Down your door,
You better run.
You better run all day,
And run all night.
And keep your dirty feelings deep inside.
And if you're taking your girlfriend out tonight,
You better park the car well out of sight.
'Cause if they catch you in the back seat,
Trying to pick her lock,
They're gonna send you back to Mother,
In a cardboard box.
You better run!

[ZingPao]

Listen to the music, especially Astronomy Domine. Or some Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

Originally Posted by ZingPao

Listen to the music, especially Astronomy Domine. Or some Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

SAW THEM LIVE ZING. BUT TIME MARCHES ON. X