Pink Floyd
The Piper At The Gates of Dawn

Syd Barrett.
The mad diamond.
The psychedelic Mattia Pascal.
The mad hatter.
Sublimated and preserved in wild notes on this album.
Written at the tip of LSD.
It begins with the almost Morse-like pulsations at the start of Astronomy Domine. Launched into outer space.
On the other side of the universe, as if by magic, the madness of a child who has been enchanted and absorbed into his favorite tale (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), a tale he never wanted/could not exit, responds to us once more.
And so it goes on between interstellar journeys and gnomes, folk chants, and acid nightmares.
Light years away, even today, from us.
In the end, before taking leave, as a joke, the child invites us to follow him into the other room.
The sound of a sea of clocks, one for every mad dream of the child, even those he will never again realize or that he will no longer be able to "make ring," overwhelms us and bids us farewell.
It's over.
Welcome back home.

Afterword
One of those clocks, orphaned by the irreversible madness of Syd Barrett, was preserved by his old companions and made to chime once again at the start of Time (in The Dark Side Of The Moon).
This tribute by Pink Floyd to their old lost friend is something I have never seen highlighted anywhere.
Unlike the continuous references to Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Wish You Were Here.
It seemed worth mentioning.