Syd Barrett is dead

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I am having a nervous breakdance
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now theres a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the
Steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend,
You martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the
Steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper,
You prisoner, and shine!

-
Roger Waters

Rest In Peace, Syd....
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but
now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.



Lost in never never land
RIP

Good bye, blue sky
Good bye, blue sky
Good bye
Good bye
Good bye
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Colour out of Time
Wow ... stumbled on this using the good old search engine

But only 2 posts

Farout !!! <shakes head>

Loved Barrett ... a wonderfull crazy genius ... The early Floyd albums still remain my favs ...

Have a copy of The Madcap Laughts (1970)


I will mention a tale I heard about Barrett in the Floyd days ... the guys would often have breaks and Syd would leave the studio. If he turned right ... everything would be cool because he'd be back soon, however if he turned left ... well you wouldn't see Syd for days.

anyway RIP
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