'Rats' in particular was really odd. That was just a very crazed jam, and S… Read Full Bio ↴'Rats' in particular was really odd. That was just a very crazed jam, and Syd had this lyric that he just shouted over the top. It's quite nuts. But some of his songs are very beautiful."

-- Jerry Shirley, from DiLorenzo, 1978, Ibid.

Water in the north has sprung from the one of heaven, which is complemented by the six of earth. Fire in the south has sprung from the two of earth, which is complemented by the eight of earth. Metal in the west has sprung from the four of earth, which is complemented by the nine of heaven.

Confucius decodes the Yellow River Map, in "I Ching", transl. Wilhelm/Baynes; Ibid., p. 309.

Rats
Syd Barrett Lyrics

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Like the fall that brings me to
I like the fall that brings me to
I like the cord around sinew
I make a cord around sinew

Duck, the way to least is less
Tea craving of the metal west
'ell tomorrow's rain and test
'ell tomorrow's rain and test
Love an empty son and guess
Love an empty son and guess
Pimples dangerous and blessed

Heaving, arriving, tinkling
Mingling jets and statuettes
Seething wet we meeting fleck
Seething wet we meeting fleck
Lines and winds and crib and half
Each fair day I give you half
Of each fair day I give you half
I look into your eyes and you,
Flathe in the sun for you

Bam, spastic, tactile engine
Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham
I'll have them, fried bloke
Broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho, paki, pufftle
Sploshette moxy, very smelly,
Cable, gable, splintra, channel
Top the seam he's taken off

Rats, rats lay down flat
We don't need you, we act like that
And if you think you're un-loved
Then we know about that

Rats, rats, lay down flat!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Syd Barrett's "Rats" are complex and somewhat cryptic, and may require a bit of interpretation. The first lines, "Got it hit down, spot knock inside a spider," seem to suggest a sudden realization, with "spot knock" possibly implying a spark of insight. The repeated refrain "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" suggests a dismissal of societal expectations about what constitutes love, and implies a deeper, more instinctual understanding of the concept. The line "I make a cord around sinew" further reinforces this idea, implying a physical or biological connection between people.

The second verse is also a bit murky, with lines like "Duck, the way to least is less" and "Tea craving of the metal west" seeming nonsensical at first. However, they could be interpreted as commentary on modern society's obsession with progress and technology, and how it often leads to a dissatisfaction with the present moment. The repeated line "Love an empty son and guess" could suggest a feeling of emptiness or lack of fulfillment despite the trappings of success.

The final verse of the song is a bit surreal, with a list of nonsensical or made-up words that seem to imply a rejection of traditional language and communication. The repeated refrain "Rats, rats, lay down flat!" seems to be a call to shed societal expectations and constraints, and to embrace a more primal or instinctual way of living.

Overall, Syd Barrett's "Rats" is a somewhat enigmatic song that covers a lot of ground thematically. It touches on love, societal expectations, technology, and primal instincts, all while showcasing Barrett's unique and often unconventional approach to songwriting.

Line by Line Meaning

Got it hit down
Feeling defeated and fallen

Spot knock inside a spider
Feeling trapped and powerless

Says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Underscoring how challenging life can be

"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Repeating his point that life is difficult to love

Says: "That's love, all know it
Acknowledging that life is difficult for everyone

TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it
Comparing life's mundanity to peacefulness

"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Reiterating how hard life can be

"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Repeating that this difficulty is inherent in love

Like the fall that brings me to
Metaphorically falling into life's challenges

I like the fall that brings me to
Finding solace in life's difficulties

I like the cord around sinew
Finding beauty in the intricate nature of life

Duck, the way to least is less
Cautioning to avoid the path of least resistance

Tea craving of the metal west
Describing the dull routines of modern life

'ell tomorrow's rain and test
Reflecting on the inevitability of uncertainty and hardship

Love an empty son and guess
Questioning the nature of love and its rewards

Pimples dangerous and blessed
Suggesting the paradoxical nature of beauty and danger in life

Heaving, arriving, tinkling
Describing the disordered and chaotic aspects of existence

Mingling jets and statuettes
Juxtaposing the grandiose and the trivial aspects of life

Seething wet we meeting fleck
Alluding to life's mix of pleasant and unpleasant experiences

Lines and winds and crib and half
Reflecting on life's transient, fleeting nature

Each fair day I give you half
Communing with a lover to find purpose and joy

Of each fair day I give you half
Sharing life's joys and challenges with someone important

I look into your eyes and you
Seeking a deeper sense of meaning in life

Flathe in the sun for you
Paying tribute to the majesty of nature and love

Bam, spastic, tactile engine
Describing the unpredictable and frenetic energy of existence

Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham
Reflecting on the chaotic and unstable nature of life

I'll have them, fried bloke
Embracing life's many twists and turns

Broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho, paki, pufftle
Listing bizarre ideas and experiences as part of life's fullness

Sploshette moxy, very smelly,
Acknowledging that life is messy and unpleasant at times

Cable, gable, splintra, channel
Reflecting on the dizzying array of experiences that life can bring

Top the seam he's taken off
Accepting that life is unpredictable and uncontrollable

Rats, rats, lay down flat!
Suggesting people should reject societal norms and expectations

Yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!
Encouraging people to embrace their own unique ways of being

Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: SYD BARRETT

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@samanthalacey2735

4y↑5

Got it hit down
Spot knock inside a spider
Says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Says: "That's love, all know it
TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

Like the fall that brings me to
I like the fall that brings me to
I like the cord around sinew
I make a cord around sinew

Duck, the way to least is less
Tea craving of the metal west
'ell tomorrow's rain and test
'ell tomorrow's rain and test
Love an empty son and guess
Love an empty son and guess
Pimples dangerous and blessed

Heaving, arriving, tinkling
Mingling jets and statuettes
Seething wet we meeting fleck
Seething wet we meeting fleck
Lines and winds and crib and half
Each fair day I give you half
Of each fair day I give you half
I look into your eyes and you,
Flathe in the sun for you

Bam, spastic, tactile engine
Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham
I'll have them, fried bloke
Broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho, paki, pufftle
Sploshette moxy, very smelly,
Cable, gable, splintra, channel
Top the seam he's taken off

Rats, rats lay down flat
We don't need you, we act like that
And if you think you're un-loved
Then we know about that
Rats, rats, lay down flat!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!

All comments from YouTube:

@jaydoebud

12y↑44

Syd is a mad genius. Legendary just like Lennon, Hendrix, Hunter Thompson, etc

@jenniferbeck2108

4y↑4

I want to LOVE This comment but only get to "like" here on youtube..... ♥

@theblahman

12y↑25

Syd had it, even when he didnt, Syd at his his worst is still better than anything off Dark Side or WIsh You Were, Syds musical appeal is that it lays somewhere between a garage rock anyone can do it approach and absolute conceptual noone can touch him genius.

@Syfoll

Shut the fuck up

@vladdrakul7851

@Syfoll What a vile comment. Who the hell do you think you are?? Do you own this site. Are you God's anointed one. You don't even make a point just act like a football hooligan in print and verbally assault someone for an opinion on a song!!. Why don't YOU go and fuck yourself DOUCHE!.

@LosHuxleys

1y↑1

Yes

@scottmooneyham5521

35w↑1

Yeah, yeah, yeah-ah yeah

@magua4

12y↑15

there are fantastic elements to syds later works. i imagine that the sounds he hears in his head are much more elaborate and flowing and that they don't quite the flow no matter what medium he would have used to create them. not like i think this is bad. i just think that if there was a way to transmute brain activity into music straight away, from one persons mind into a computer program or something.... that syd would be able to come up with the best stuff around

@carlosalicante37

11y↑38

Totally agreed . Vegetable man was the first punk song ever . But a punk song will never has lyrics like this . Syd was tooooo goooood

@ronwood355

4y↑5

Syd did not have the problems attributed to him as being mad ,he may have had some problem
But his ability as a writer and arranger shines thru , he lived in a world of words and music
We all miss syd

@ericfisher1203

3y↑7

This song is bad ass....love the little guitar licks in between everything....such a catchy song

@pedrosousa5969

22w

So deeply poetic ❤

@mcbillygoat2413

8y↑33

Syd was born on this day. Stars that shine do not fade into darkness.

@valaurwen

13y↑50

I'm confused as to how this shows any disintergration. According to his own description of this song it's essentially a poem. He always loved to play with words. This song is in the same style as his earlier works with the Floyd. Everyone playing into the whole "he couldn't control his own mind" bull. He very well could and DID, just not in the best of ways. When he wasn't high he was all there, alright - so says EVERYONE but Gilmore, of course. Syd was emotionally unstable but not insane.

@harty1344

4y↑5

Exactly, he was doing concerts 4 years after being pushed from the band!

@stefaniecarter3721

4y↑1

Beautiful mind🌞

@chrishenley4179

@BOOBIE FEEŤ No. He was nuts

@ge2623

3y↑2

And they always said john lennon was a wordsmith.....which he was ( And i LOVE the beatles) but compared to Syd.....he was a HACK

@BiffChunksteak

3y↑6

This is a solid song imo. Typical Barrett in that the individual instruments' scores all seem very disjointed and dissonant and other words that start with dis and indicate the opposite of coherent or euphonic, but when they are put together they're clockwork. Also typical is how the rhythm seems to skip. He was a pretty decent songsmith.

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@makenoises

13y↑8

Syd Barrett; You Rock!!

@ronwood355

4y↑1

I love this stuff from syd shame he was ill and the lsd probably made his condition worse
But maybe we would not have so many different songs

@emmanuelfiolakis6539

8y↑5

How some songs never get forgoten!

@SevensoonS

3y↑2

Questa è poesia

@skinnydoggyz

11y↑28

i've probably heard Madcap Laughs a couple dozen times. my first time listening to this album i'm impressed, because the documentary of syd barrett seemed to favor the madcap sessions over this better produced one. BUT DAMN, this song reminds me of the Magic Band, in the best way, similar feeling to the captain.

@Claytone-Records

4y↑2

skinnydoggyz, Magic Band for sure. Crazy rhythms. Seat of the pants stuff. I have been a long time fan of this album, some hate it. I don’t care. I saw Dweezil Zappa and his band in February. That was an intense and stunning performance. They played Hot Rats in its entirety and all the live Zappa classics.

@Claytone-Records

Johan Hansén, Was it not AWESOME.! They wore my ass out.

@Valientlink

Barrett would have been better if the other members didn't hijack it. Rats on Opel is SO much better

@theblahman

12y↑6

@fmxkool I agree- they are, and I love those albums. its not the obscurity of the Barrett recordings I love but the pockets of sheer genius contained within in them.

@dclark4422

6y↑10

I keep waiting for Barrett to repeat the chorus at the end of the song but he doesn't. It's still an incredible song, though.

@teokurt5803

32w↑1

Syd was a poet of the invisible.

@christopher19894

13y↑7

This song reminds me of a confusing high school winter.

@brendanohara1608

5y↑3

This songs so dope lol love it

@BiffChunksteak

11y↑5

Just because one is a few boards short of a barn, or a bit under the weather moodwise, does not mean one can't still, musically speaking, raise the roof rocking. I give you 'Maisie', 'Effervescing Elephant' and 'Dark Globe', all from Mr Barretts post-diagnosis canon, in evidence, and bid you goodnight, good Sire. Truly, Buzz Killington.

@wotdoesthisbuttondo

2y↑1

This song would've sounded awesome with full Floyd treatment and a few lyric adjustments, it's got a discordance that makes sense, it moves and gathers pace.

@wilhobbs207

8y↑14

This song would have fit onto any Floyd album from the 60s.

@kalikristos8693

8y↑13

+Wil Hobbs Too good for Floyd to do it credit. They never could adequately convey the subtle nuances and complexity of Syd's unique way of delivering the goods. Waters tried, after Syd left, but only managed to sound gloomy. When he wasn't drawing on how much he wished Syd was there, he was sobbing about Daddy not coming home from WWII. Gilmour was capable enough, but had a much narrower scope than Syd, and to be fair, he never tried to emulate anything other than his own style. But when Roger got all prima-donna and litigious with everyone, it all got far too deeply mired in nasty pointless bullshit. Like there wasn't enough fucking money to go round? I hope the mopey cunt is thoroughly ashamed of instigating that ugliness. It tainted everything that came afterwards. TYou can't just shrug off stains like that Roger. Still, props for the good stuff, and everything.

@wilhobbs207

8y↑5

+Kali Kristos Absolutely agree with you. Waters even kicked Richard Wright out of the band. Said that he didn't contribute anything. Then hired him back as a session player and paid him scale! I lost all respect for Waters after that.

@BiffChunksteak

5y↑1

@Kali Kristos it explains his recent attempts at becoming thrift store bono.

@raunaqbedi2852

5y↑3

Kali Kristos u so true none of theband members had sys charisma his timing

Nd yeahrogers lyrics r so gloomy would rather listen to bike nd vegetable man any day nd b enthralled by syd unpredictable sense

@Syfoll

@Kali Kristos Why must Syd fans be so retarded?

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@vladdrakul7851

4y↑6

Fuck the CRITICS THIS ALBUM IS MY FAVORITE PINK FLOYD LP WITH SYD. Syd's creative GENIUS peak! 'RATS; RATS, LAY DOWN FLAT, YES YES YES, lay down flat!!'

@TheFutureIsThePast77

12y↑12

In all of the billions of years and more since the universe has existed there will never be anything ever again like Syd Barrett's music. It's like he had seven senses and it lead him to experience the other dimensions that are not exposed to human kind as we know it because we only have five.

@toyaquiyvoyaya

6y↑3

His Third Eye was burning...

@Syfoll

5y↑1

Pink Floyd's music. With or without him. They are all amazing.

@crazydiamond0038

9y↑17

Fucking hell, this song messes with my head! XD

@SufferingFoolsMusic

8y↑65

The way the drummer has trouble making sense of the song is so typically Syd.

@crisprtalk6963

5y↑1

Jerry Shirley

@jamesbuntin1541

4y↑6

Mason would have got it, shame he didn't help.

@Claytone-Records

James Buntin, It is great having a drummer friend. I am fortunate as I have crazy rhythm.

@Felipe-nh5tg

Yeah!

@marcsalzman8082

I disagree with your analysis of Jerry Shirley's percussive work on Syd's "Rats".
It was obviously different than Humble Pie,

@trentosmarden

12y↑5

He is a modern blues musician.You wouldn't tell John Lee Hooker that he is couldn't play in time or tune, right?

@samanthalacey2735

4y↑5

@elizabethhann4028

[12 April 2021] Oh, this must be the real MUTANT BLUES that I did dimly strive towards. Have I really given it up now, to sing (and listen to) the mutant pop?

@NimrodelMirage

3y↑4

Can this song get out of my head please?

@NimrodelMirage

3y↑1

Happy birthday Mr. Barrett 🖤🥳

@toyaquiyvoyaya

9y↑24

Idk but i think the lyrics might be inspired by his feelings towards his ex band mates. For example, the way he says ''rats, rats lay down flat
we don't need you, we act like that
and if you think you're un-loved
then we know about that...
rats, rats, lay down flat!
yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!'' sounds a bit suspicious.. just a thought so feel free to disagree

@jeffstewart9622

8y↑18

Syd at his worst is better than Floyd at their best

@gromitpesley

8y↑3

Could be, I also wonder about the "I make a cord around sinew". It means to hang someone. Sinew is a type of muscle in the neck.

@alexalex-fp2fo

its very possible!

@arf410

They were all on this album, so I kind of doubt it.

@raunaqbedi2852

5y↑2

Jeff Stewart how true moment i start time by roger waters think of dynamic bike by syd

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@Leadhead444

13y↑1

@makenoises Finally someone says this rock and you didn't say something like this is too depressing or this isn't even music or singing...thank you for being different! :)

@periscopio6401

2y↑1

Allways the nr 1 SYD

@danielbishop7187

5y↑2

This track is from barrett, and by this point, David Gilmour is playing all of the instruments you hear. Syd for vocals and lyrics, thats all.

@HeckTo

4y↑6

No.

@falsavidahipocresia

4y↑2

guitar is all by syd

@chadpittman3025

Sid Sid plays the guitars

@riseup420

36w

syd did love song, rats, Masie and wolf pack on his own the rest are gilmour due to him and Richard on on tour with pink floyd in 1970 in the usa

@scottmooneyham5521

35w

That is a lie. Gilmour insisted on Barrett doing the guitar, despite the pain of getting him to play in time, because he did not want to be accused of exactly this — propping him up. Gilmour played bass. Jerry Shirley played drums and Wright on keys. There is no listing on the liner notes because all those guys were under contract to others. Shirley said Syd played absolutely brilliantly on Gigilo Aunt, first take out. Then absolutely could do nothing on the Dominoes lead until Gilmour played the other tracks backwards and that is how you have all the backwards lead.

@HeiHolaHello

11y↑3

2:18 sounds like the doors kind of. best part of the song, also the most musical part of the song...

@Dan5482

5y↑2

I think this is the first punk song in history.

@crisprtalk6963

Vegetable man is.

@pepeluis6923

4y↑1

It´s not. Vegetable man is. Greetings

@VeronaJay

12y↑2

I completely disagree with you about DSOTM, The Wall, Roger Waters' supposed talent and whether what he created was either amazing or unique...but we differ. You can make your point without shitting on someone else's approach to music or labeling them a 'poseur' with whatever preconceived notions you have about their musical tastes.

@nihonbunka

6y↑25

Syd gets inside a spider and rides an octopus

@MrOCSlim

14y↑2

Geez, you can see the disintegration of his mind in his lyrics. Pretty sad.

@BiffChunksteak

5y↑2

He often wrote by association. It just seems that now he felt less of a need to tell a linear story about gnomes or bikes or scarecrows or whatever and just kind of jazzed it. I think "Of each fair day I give you half" is a beautiful line.

@chrisedelic77

12y↑9

Syd Barrett + E chord =

@tgroove7

12y↑5

I always thought the song opened with, Got it hit down his head bit off by a spider. says: "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" "That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

@GEAsolar

11y↑5

"Got it hit down ..." *And then I don't remember anything about my first acid trip.

@chadpittman3025

Nobody knew the Pink Floyd would hit it big with dark side of the moon.syd wanted to go solo. He thought he was the Reason Pink Floyd had success and he was right. But they hung in there without him and after a few albums they hit big with dark side of the moon. Part of Pink Floyd's Mystique is having the madcap in their past

@loopular1

1:56 is where this song intensifies!!

@julyccg117

8y↑24

reminds me captain beefheart. great song.

@prod6mill.512

8y↑2

was just thinking that

@mickaelprevost273

8y↑1

2 capricorns, 2 genius.

@lo0ksik

what if they were psicians

@toyaquiyvoyaya

6y↑3

2 capricorns. 2 GOATS. Captain Beefheart: GOAT Greatest Of All Times in Rock music. Syd Barrett: GOAT Greatest Of All Times in Folk Music.

@Claytone-Records

4y↑1

Sheriff Lophophora, That is wild, Goats. I am nothing but Fish.

@sevenminutestildawn

6y↑9

Could the "rats" be a metaphor for his old band mates (Pink Floyd)?

@thaleslopes8604

6y↑2

Johnny DOOM i think no, if i am not mistaken, they helped Syd in this album

@Syfoll

5y↑1

If it was, then Syd was a piece of shit. Dave and Roger helped on Madcap and Dave and Rick helped on this one. Also highly unlikely since Syd personally asked for Roger and Dave to produce.

@JohnDoe-jc6xu

5y↑2

@Syfoll he didnt, I think at least in part he may have written this about them because of what they did to madcap laughs

@Syfoll

@John Doe If he did that, then he is a douchebag. They helped him with a lot of shit. Dave and Rick played on Barrett and produced it. Dave even played with him live and he left the stage. And they didn't do anything to Madcap. It's an amazing album.

@JohnDoe-jc6xu

@Syfoll https://wizzley.com/pink-floyd-syd-barrett-the-madcap-laughs/
Here's an article I found about how the madcap laughs was produced, there's another article at the Syd Barrett wevsire. That being said I agree , madcap laughs is a classic

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@diaanite

6y↑1

Cold, falls, fluids and smalls got under rain and slipped off the walls.

@Garrysullivanjones

Diana Loginova I hear that the last bit jangly

@tamrapandanelsonnelson2857

6y↑2

that's right bitches this is love!

@animesocialgreengodgamingn7826

Snitch 😍

@guessillbeonmyway

1y↑1

"Love and empty son and guess."

@curtgobra8319

does he sing that?

@harty1344

Guest

@sfender2182

3y↑1

Syd wears a crucifix in part of this video. Was he Christian? God bless Syd Barrett! Love his music.

@ronnyeblue731

Great

@falsavidahipocresia

4y↑2

All guitar is done by him i am right ??

@hegemoniuspiper

11y↑5

i was right the first time i listened to this it was a wednsday

@stevewilson20

5y↑2

Is this the missing piece of Pink Floyd's best Hardrock Album called...?

@MegaRaven100

4y↑1

'Barrett' is the LP. Check it out. A masterpiece! One of Floyd's best LP's.

@eltjemueller-stewart1145

12y↑2

Okay kiddies! Let's all just calm down about what 'theblahman' just said. Okay, let's just breathe in the air... Don't be afraid to care... Okay. Good. My three favourite songs are 'Hey You' 'Any Colour You Like' and 'See Emily Play'. I love all Pink Floyd and all the individual solo stuff. :) Let's just unite under our love of Floyd and not be nasty and call people poser, okay? Be nice, kiddies! Pinkfloydian99 keeping an eye out!

@Syfoll

THANK YOU

@MrLuctuosa

11y↑1

well described ease please me brilliant and bizarre

@Dan5482

11y↑14

Syd Barrett => First Punk.

@freddiesimmons8730

5y↑1

@Syfoll

5y↑1

Research more you dumb fuck

@vladdrakul7851

4y↑1

ACID PUNK YES. BUT THAT FREAKY FREEDOM GENIUS IS THE TRUE HIPPIE SPIRIT NOT THE FUCKWIT Fashionistas' and MSM myths. See Lennon, Morrison, Hendrix, Parliament Funkadelic, VLEVET UNDERGROUND. IGGY and the STOOGES. !FREAKS WITHOUT RESTRAINT = PUNK. I AM AN ACID HIPPIE PUNK! I was a skin head on acid in the early 80s! LAY DOWN RATS!

@Lynx2606

21w

This have nothing to do with punk you dumb

@hasehirschfeld9720

🐰🇺🇸🎤🎸🐰01-24-20friday. VIVE SYD

@rodrigofonseca6241

42w

Just let me got out of here... fast!

@elpbee139

9y↑7

Idk but i think the lyrics might be inspired by george orwells 1984 for example the way he sais thats love sounds a bit ironic or the thing with the rats and something about a meeting fleck.. just a thought so feel free to disagree

@MissMichSan

Leon Pascal just a silly fact i was born in 84 im born in the year of the chinese horoscope sign rat. :)

@bignook7168

Well this was released before the 80's

@Twistedhippy

@Big Nook
The book 1984 was printed in the 1940s about the future year 1984. Its a vision of a dystopian version of Britain where a totalitarian government controls its populace with propaganda and constant surveillance.

@Claytone-Records

Twistedhippy, And in the movie version the rat was featured in a cage along with Smith’s/John Hurt’s face.

@chuckobscure

12y↑5

i believe the lyric is 'dimples, dangerous and blessed', not pimples.

@sidarthur8706

7y↑1

it's clearly pimples

@meloland5649

It would be a pink floyd song

@esmonkeys

12y↑2

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....Superman

@NoRosesForMe

11y↑1

probably!! but beefheart is great as well

@bradleyvanderwal2462

3y↑1

Kinda sounds like 2D from gorillaz

@SquiSac01

11y↑3

haha these lyrics are so far out

@Hister333

12y↑2

Yup. He's nuts.

@davestone4468

41w

Syd rats song too true in this dog eat dog world today

@smilernok

1:37 hver dag i give you huug , each hver dag i give you huug :D han synger dansk , eller prøver pået :D

@arman2774

2y↑1

Anyone know why Syd says ‘Paki’ at 2:09

@jagdeepkaul1261

2y↑1

I caught that too. Therei s never a good time to use that word or any racial slur, period. So I was upset and angry when I heard that, especially when you consider that his girlfriend was part-Inuit and born in Pakistan. I know racism was more open and thrown around more in the 60s/70s so I guess the word wasn't as frowned upon back then, who knows. John Lennon had a song called "Woman Is The N*** of the World" for god's sake, I mean, he wasn't afraid, AT ALL.

@hasehirschfeld9720

🐰🎤🎸🇺🇸🐰02-13-20thu. LOVELINESS

@NoRosesForMe

11y↑9

♥♥ Syddie♥♥

@diaanite

Pats pats hungry stats, had your crisp shirt now shut up, eat hats!

@prod6mill.512

8y↑3

fuckin nuts

@MissMichSan

7y↑3

Aztec Martian amazing right.

@mothbits

13y↑1

rad

@fredericopinheiro1927

6y↑4

KING PSY

@Darko769.

11y↑1

Hey babe Sarah, Thats love yeah....

@idastetis9173

how the fuck clever they played here !

@queenhasehexeyoung4106

4y↑1

05-12-20tue/fri🐰🎸🇺🇸🎤🐰. BEAUTEOUS MAGUS

@Kelly14UK

Subbed

@Molkentin

jerma reference?????

@flowerdoodle2438

6y↑1

Splosh at moxie, very smelly

@crossEyedMary69

13y↑3

@MrOCSlim maybe I'm insane too, but I cannot agree - this song is pretty weird, not mad. Listen for example to Stupid Mop by Pearl Jam - is Eddie Vedder in bad mental condition???

@Claytone-Records

crossEyedMary69, He is having a Revolution #9? Hmmm...

@BrianBarrettWilson

David Gilmour is a terrible producer and ruined this second take of such an amazing song that had so much potential to be something groundbreaking, exposing the music industry as the rats den it is.

Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham.

@makenoises

13y↑2

@Leadhead444 you're welcom, i just say the ture.. I apologize for my english but i'm a mexican! Jaja..

@blondearyanmohawkhairdoski9086

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@jagdeepkaul1261

Well I was enjoying this song until Syd said that word at 2:09, It's never a good time to be using words like that, period. But I hope he meant nothing by it.

@curtgobra8319

i doubt meant anything, i myself was troubled by the line " if you think you're un-loved
then we know about that" some reason i thought he meant me

@harty1344

@Curt Gobra maybe he'd on about immigration,our own gov hates us,so where are they headed for?and from whence did they came?

@harty1344

Smelly flip flop,you've words for us too like Kaffir!

@curtgobra8319

@SANDWICH BHOY oh dont know it might be aliens bro

@harty1344

@Curt Gobra damn, you've have opened my eyes.thanks kind stranger.

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@MakedonskaAkropolaMKD

6y↑1

Demorats!

@flaccidego9468

4y↑1

This is awful. Piper was better than this, but that was childlike drivel more so than not. Here his guitar playing sounds like a kid who never played before & who just learned 3 chords about an hour ago & decided to blend them together. I have to agree with Gilmour. Syds 2 officiall solo releases were really bad & Gilmour said the deno tapes(this shit here) should've been burned.

@MegaRaven100

4y↑3

You're well named. Utterly clueless. It is a deep, dark and prophetic song. This is word magic. Like Lennon's 'I am the Walrus! but with deep sadness and anger at humans selfish materialism and how angry and hurt he is at his betrayal by his so called friends. Gilmore did NOT say that. Both Albums were great, this LP being the best. At this point 918 like it and you are one of the clueless ELEVEN who don't. Hendrix considered Syd of the the best users of guitar an original. You moron he CREATED the Floyd and continued to influence their best work later. It's brutal soul poetry! And you actually want to burn this genius piece like an ISIS barbarian. 'I don't like or understand this deep POWERFUL art, Burn it!' Yeah the Nazis did that to 'Jewish degenerate art' that is now recognized as modernist brilliance. When they said 'everyone has an opinion like everyone has an asshole' you must have been the role model they were thinking of.