nights in white satin... what do you think it's about? i think it's about death. but my friends say it's about love. i just always thought, white satin, in a coffin. never reaching the end. and you have these people who write letters to grief. never meaning to send...you know. anyone here who can explain octopus? [syd barrett]
I vaguely remember reading that Nights in White Satin has a much more mundane story behind it than that, I think it was more literal, ie the discomfort of sleeping in satin sheets or something really dull like that, maybe theres a Moodys fan in here who can fill us in.
yeah lsd, and mandrax...but one weird night i understood it...and i wanna understand it again...lsd didn't work for me could some of you try
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! 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 meet so merrily trip forgo my side Please leave us here close our eyes to the octopus ride! *********** I don't think anybody knows what that song's about, even Syd himself.
robyn hitchcock has nice weird songs too...my wife and my dead wife, queen elvis, the yip yip song [the sarcastic happy song about the cancer that killed mom]
