Tuesday, July 11, 2006

The Piper At The Gates Of Heaven

The music world lost a true genius today with the passing of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett. His lyrics and his music touched me in ways I cannot even express in words.

When I first heard Syd's 1970 solo release "The Madcap Laughs", I was going through a real rough patch in my life but one song spoke to me on so many levels that I was able to pull through, with a little help from alcohol and just a schtickl of LSD now and again. That song, Love You, still serves as a source of inspiration whenever things get a little hard for me to bear.

I hope you relish it as much as I:
Love You

Honey love you, honey little,
honey funny sunny morning
love you more funny love in the skyline baby
ice-cream 'scuse me,
I've seen you looking good the other evening

Oh, you dig it, had to smile just an hour or so
(are) we in love like I think we be?
It Ain't a long rhyme.
It took ages to think
I think I love it in the water, baby...

Honey love you, honey little,
honey funny sunny morning
love you more funny love in the skyline baby
ice-cream 'scuse me,
I've seen you looking good the other evening

Flaking you are an nice little one
to put it all around, its just good
I like it, hey hey hey
S'pose some time that day
we'll be swinging along over across to me

Honey love you, honey little,
honey funny sunny morning
love you more funny love in the skyline baby
ice-cream 'scuse me,
I've seen you looking good the other evening

Goodtime rocker woman we'll stray our pieces
little creepy we shine so sleepy,
so whoopee!
That's how you look...

Honey love you, honey little,
honey funny sunny morning
love you more funny love in the skyline baby
ice-cream 'scuse me,
I've seen you looking good the other evening
Powerful...powerful stuff, man.

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