di Syd Barrett
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
Was 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
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 raging seas will 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
Please, leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride
Please, leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride
Pubblicazioni
- Pubblicata come b/side del singolo Octopus il 14 Novembre 1969
- Pubblicata il 2 Gennaio del 1970 nell’album The Madcap Laughs
- Pubblicata nel box Crazy Diamond del 1993 le takes 1&2 della durata di 3 minuti e 9 secondi
- Pubblicata il 17 Ottobre del 1988 nella raccolta Opel una delle prime versioni intitolata Clowns & Jugglers
- Pubblicata nel box Crazy Diamond del 1993 la take 1 di Clowns & Jugglers
- Pubblicata nella raccolta An Introduction To Syd Barrett del 2010 il nuovo mix 2010
