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These fuchsia colors and these clothes, these dissonances and these groove movements that speak of Jupiter and Saturn, of Mars and all the Stars. Or not... it speaks of a Siamese cat named Lucifer who always sits next to you and has that something that can't be explained. Only Barrett can explain the masterpiece he composed and wrote, and he does it through the stories of a king told in a mother's fairy tale. He does it through becoming an imp in the fog mist FIUU! FIUU! sitting on a unicorn, you can't see him but he can see you; he screams through a starry sky SCHHHHH! traveling by phone, you can't touch him but he can touch you.
PU TSCH TSCH, PU TSCH TSCH... And the colors become softer, and the sounds become more bluesy... PU TSCH TSCH, PU TSCH TSCH... TUI TUI, TUI TUI, TUI TUI, TUI TUI. Brilliant dissonances... the drum is always and only in the right channel, the volume comes and goes. INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE. DOCTOR DOCTOR, TSCHTSCHTSCHSTCH music can help pain and cultivate the brain but this triumph of sounds, solos, and noises is really a torment... ah yes, now it has passed... TIC-TAC TIC-TAC TIC-TAC... it's the story of a gnome named Grimble Crumble who stays at home and drinks wine, does gardening and always listens to the music box with mirages of Sgt. Pepper in the distance... and calm returns with warm choirs and Hammond solos.
Beautiful and tremendously sweet is the folk tale of the black and green scarecrow, which moves only with the wind causing the mice to fall. This is the story, this is the psychedelia, this is the masterpiece, and you should know it. I have a bicycle, if you want you can take a ride on it, it has a bell, the basket; I have a strange red and white coat, I've kept it for months, and I know a mouse that doesn't have a home, I don't know why I call him Gerald, he's quite old but friendly, I know a room full full of musical sounds, some rhythmic, some tinkling but many are mechanical and it's the room of the piper at the gates of dawn who sang a song for an hour. He sang it almost 40 years ago and it is still the most beautiful of all.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Astronomy Domine (04:12)
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 surrounds the icy waters underground
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground.
02 Lucifer Sam (03:07)
Lucifer Sam, siam cat.
Always sitting by your side
Always by your side.
That cat's something I can't explain.
Jennifer Gentle, 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.
04 Flaming (02:46)
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.
08 The Gnome (02:13)
I want to tell you a story
About a little man
If I can.
A gnome named Grimble Grumble.
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.
09 Chapter 24 (03:42)
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.
10 The Scarecrow (02:11)
The black and green scarecrow as ev'ryone 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 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
11 Bike (03:21)
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 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
Everything 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
Everything 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
Everything 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
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