PINK FLOYD: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)

1. Astronomy Domine
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Matilda Mother
4. Flaming
5. Pow R. Toc H.
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. The Gnome
9. Chapter 24
10. The Scarecrow
11. 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 around

The icy waters under Lime and limpid green, the sounds around

The icy waters underground

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

MATILDE 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

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 sories held me high on Clouds of sunlight floating by.

Oh Mother, tell me more

Tell me more.

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

Travelling 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.

POW R. TOC H.

)Instrumental)

TAKE UP THY STETHESCOPE AND WALK

Doctor doctor! I'm in bed

Doctor doctor Achin' head

Doctor docto Gold is lead

Doctor doctor Choke on bread

Doctor doctor Underfed

Doctor doctor Gold is lead

Doctor doctor Jesus bled

Doctor doctor Pain is red

Doctor doctor Dark doom

Gruel ghoul Greasy spoon

Used spoon 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.

INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE

(Instrumental)

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 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

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

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

About his head and mice spun 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

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