Artist: Pink Floyd
Album: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn {1967} click for explanation
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Songs:
Astronomy Domine
Lucifer Sam
Matilda Mother
Flaming
Pow R. Toc H.
Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
Interstellar Overdrive
The Gnome
Chapter 24
The Scarecrow
Bike





Astronomy Domine
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
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Lucifer Sam
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
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Matilda Mother
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
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
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Flaming
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
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Pow R. Toc H.
INSTRUMENTAL
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
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
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Interstellar Overdrive
INSTRUMENTAL
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The Gnome
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 ooomray

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 ooomray
Ooooomray
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Chapter 24
A movement is accomplished in six stages 
And the seventh brings return
For 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
For 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
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The Scarecrow
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 was sadder than me
But now he's resigned to his fate
Cos life's not unkind - he doesn't mind
He stood in a field where barley grows
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Bike
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, everything if you want thing

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 thing

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 thing

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 thing

I know a room 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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