Opel

Syd Barret Opel Lyrics
1.Opel

On a distant shore, miles from land
Stands the ebony totem in ebony sand
A dream in a mist of grey...
On a far distant shore...

The pebble that stood alone
And driftwood lies half buried
Warm shallow waters sweep shells
So the cockles shine...

A bare winding carcase, stark
Shimmers as flies scoop up meat, an empty way...
Dry tears...
Crisp black squeaks tore reeds
Make a circle of grey in a summer way, around man
So don't ground...

I'm trying
I'm trying to find you!
To find you
I'm living, i'm giving,
To find you, to find you,
I'm living, i'm living,
I'm trying, i'm giving


2.Dolly Rocker


3.Milky Way

What'd you ever say today when you're in the milky way
Oh tell me please
-just to give you a squeeze
If i met you - i told you what to do
Seems a while
Since i could smile the way you do...

How many times, if i try, if i may,
When you're in the milky way
Half of your time -beside me only atmosphere
- the singular raised by heats and wet seems a while
Since i could smile the way you do...

What can anyone mean to you
Standing in the milky way
Take life easy
- i mean so easy
Why so empty...?
I told you - i can tell you
What to do - when i hold you
And i tell you 'i love you'
I feel that i'm way you do...

Give a grasp of life today
When you're in the milky way
Oh, try to please! knock on wood of the trees
Glad you, mould you, mould you and hold you
Means five miles
And everyway for you...


4.Birdy Hop

Birdy hop - he do, he hop along
A lonely bird upon a window there
He, he, there he blow
A windy snow, he knew the snow,
I know the snow, a hoppy bird

The antelope ride around the parasole
Just to see if he's a man
Enough to meet you in the sandpit
On a flying kind of sign in a meddlesome way
You know the way - i see the flies
She's a little kite the sort
You think you might like to fly
And like a kite you get to see her
Every night, you know the way
She's only paving her way -
Hectochrome plane - i see the flies.

Birdy hop - he do, he hop along
A lonely bird upon a window there
He, he, there he blow
A windy snow, he knew the snow,
I know the snow, a hoppy bird

A camel woke up to a polish dawn
Wouldn't look to see his feet had gone
He wouldn't like it
Wouldn't have the strength to fight it,
I see the flies
I'm the only bird, a little third,
I lost a quarter
Had a yearning to be earning just a dollar a day
In a way you shouldn't like it, hectochrome plane
I see the flies.


5.The Word Song

Stained, glaucous, glycerine, gold,goat, clover
Gold, local stocks, type, food, wild, national, lake, flag,
Valve, gyroscope, sect
Heat, helium, lead, bare, state, invention, medieval
Refraction, faction, ultra-action,
Hunter, interest, bullet, market...

Loads, liquids, neon, heater, jaws, jungle
Mains, signal, knives, kitchen
Ingot, lovely, mirror, mold
Mycenaean, moat, poppy, rubber,
Radar, rags, sugar, teak
Silver, poke, tin, beetroot,
Carrott, ebony, fruit, copper, silk...

Carpet, distant, pigmy, hid, pack,
Timber, pudding, straw
Raindrops, spattering, ramps
Chameleon, prairie, pods, trigger
Museum, scales, square, ultra, out of map, vent
Volcano, vain, wreck, tactic
Tidal, arches, valley, hand
Inflect, impression, loom, last, molten
You gamma, meeting
Lighting, signal, island, coral-cold

Rooftop in a thunderstorm row missing the point

With yellow, red and roomy food, and quivered
Crouching on a golden cushion
Undressed himself to disappear
Through an infinity of pleasure
And smiled to free the running me
With 'am i my brother's keeper?'
His meek hand on devils gloves
Shaping running blood.

The prohecy, to ricreate the truth
In visions of a seasonal mood
In truth, the only sight he saw
Lay hidden in the bathroom door
And spat on the rug
As high is high, so low is low
And that's the end of it. -


6.Swan Lee(Silas Lang)

Swan lee got up at the running foot pow-wow,
Heading from the fire to his waiting canoe.
Chattering squaw untied the wigwam door,
The chief blew smoke rings two by two!

The land in silence stands...

Swan lee, his boat by the bank in the darkness,
Loosened the rope in the creek is entwined.
A feather from the wing of a wild young eagle,
Pointed to the land where his fortune he'd find

The land in silence stands...

Swan lee paddled on from the land of his fathers,
His eyes scanned the undergrowth on either side.
From the shore hung a hot, heavy, creature infested
Tropic, swan lee had a bow by his side

The land in silence stands...

Swan lee kept time, half on land, half on water,
Grizzly bear and raccoon his fare.
He followed his ears to the great water fall,
Swan lee knew deep down that his squaw was there!

The land in silence stands....

Suddenly the rush of the mighty great thunder,
Confronted swan lee as his song he sang,
In the dawn, with his squaw, he was battling homewards
It was all written down by long silas lang.

The land in silence stands...
The land in silence stands...
The land in silence stands.


7.Two Of A Kind

Open your eyes and don't be blind
Can't you see we're two of a kind?
I've got to say this, i hope you don't mind
I love you, we're two of a kind

Just ask yourself and you will find
We go together, we're two of a kind
No use protesting, be resigned
Baby you know, we're two of a kind

I knew it when i saw you
I felt it a little more when
I talked with you at first
All my blues dispersed
I couldn't disguise
My complete surprise
When you were feeling it too
I'm in love with you, i'm in love with you...

Open your eyes and don't be blind
Can't you see we're two of a kind?
I've got to say this, i hope you don't mind
I love you, we're two of a kind


8.Let's Split

Everything about,
About to go out,
Me out, you out,
Yes and everything is out
About, out...
Out, out, out, out, out, out,
Let's split!
I'm telling you this is it!

Everything is down,
And hound, hound, hound
Back down, down, down
Even everything is down
Abound and down,
Down, down, down, down, down, down
Let's split!
Tellin' you this is it!

Nobody is right tonight,
Night, height, right, tight,
It isn't right
Me out, you out
And everything is out
Out, out, out, out, out, out
Let's split!


9.Lanky