ummagumma lyrics
I. STUDIO ALBUM
SYSUPHUS PARTS I-IV
(instrumental)
GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS
Icy wind of night, be gone
This is not your domain
In the sky a bird was heard to cry
Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds
Belied a deathly silence that lay all around
Hear the lark and harken
To the barking of the dog fox gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher
flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen
beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes
Through the endless summer making for the sea
In the lazy water meadow
I lay me down
All around me
Golden sunflakes settle on the ground
Basking in the sunshine of a by gone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room
Hear the lark and harken
To the barking of the dog fox gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher
flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen
beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes
Through the endless summer making for the sea
In the lazy water meadow
I lay me down
All around me
Golden sunflakes covering the ground
Basking in the sunshine of a by gone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into my city room
Hear the lark and harken
To the barking of the dog fox gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher
flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen
beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes
Through the endless summer making for the sea
SEVERAL SMALL SPECIES OF ANIMALS
GATHERED TOGETHER IN A CAVE
AND GROOVING WITH A PICT<
Aye an' a bit of mackeral,
settler rack and down
Ran it down by the home, and I flew
Well, it slapped me
and I flopped it down in the shade
And I cried, cried, cried
The tear had fallen down he had taken,
never back to raise
And then cried Mary,
an' took out wi' your Claymore
Right outta a' pocket,
i ran down, down by the mountain side
Battlin' the fiery horde that was falling around the feet
"Never!," he cried.
"Never shall ye get me alive
Ye rotten hound of the burnie crew!"
Well I snatched fer the blade an' a Claymore cut and thrust
And I fell down before him round his feet
Aye! A roar he cried!
Frae the bottom of 'is heart
That I would nay fall but as dead
Dead as I can by y' feet, d'ya ken?
And the wind cried Mary
THE NARROW WAY , PARTS I-II
(instrumental)
THE NARROW WAY , PART III
Following the path
As it leads towards the Darkness in the North
Weary strangers' faces show their sympathy
They've seen that hope before
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you the night is beckoning
And you know you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't touch the restless sky
Close your aching eyes beyond your name
Mist is swelling, creatures crawling
Hear the roar get louder in your ears
You know the folly was your own
But the force behind can't conquer all your fears
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you the night is beckoning
And you know you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't touch the restless sky
Close your aching eyes beyond your name
Throw your thoughts back many years
To the time when there was life in every morning
Perhaps a day will come
When the nights will be as on that morning
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you the night is beckoning
And you know you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't touch the restless sky
Close your aching eyes beyond your name
The VIZIER'S GARDEN PARTY
(instrumental)
Part I (Entrance)
Part II (Entertainment)
Part III (Exit)
II. LIVE ALBUM
ASTRONOMY DOMINE
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...
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 sound surrounds the icy waters
Underground
CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE
instrumental
SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN
Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the eaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun
Over the mountain watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his question to Heaven
Whether the Sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
The heart of the Sun...
A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS
I. Something Else
II. Syncopated Pandemonium
III. Storm Signal
IV. Celestial Voices
