Svend said:
That's sad, my very favourite Floyd songs are with Syd.
Thankfully he left some great and weird tunes for us to enjoy.
Then you got to love his song "Bike" from Pink Floyd's debut album "The Piper At Tthe Gates Of Dawn", Syd truly had his own way with a lyric:
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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 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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I remember seeing Pink Floyd live in 1994 and they led off the concert with Syd's "Astronomy Domine", playing that blast from the past was totally left field , it blew me away.
Sad news indeed. As Roger Waters once said, "Pink Floyd would not have happened without him, but (sadly) it could have not gone on with him either".
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