The far distant shore 2


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page 31  Syd used grey to describe a sad, distant rain in "Baby Lemonade":  Rain falls in grey far away Please, please, Baby Lemonade  And a hill in "It Is Obvious":  So equally over a valley, a hill wood on quarry stood Each of us crying A velvet curtain of gray mark the blanket where the sparrows play  He was more or less metaphorical: while grey and blue in "Gigolo Aunt" aptly remind sand and sea for a beach, his reply to Robert Wyatt about how to play a song was colourful, but dark like a grey:

Perhaps we could make the middle darker and maybe the end a bit middle-afternoonish... at the moment it's too windy and icy. &mdash; Syd Barrett

Even writing about a dream is not an avowal of unclear ideas for Syd, since on one of his first compositions, "Bob Dylan Blues", he stated he usually is writing about dreams:  Well I sing about dreams and I rhymes it with seams Cause it seems that my dream always means That I can prophesy all kinds of things 

 sources → Willis, Tim. Madcap: the half-life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's lost genius. London: Short books, 2002. 105. Print. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n01/jeremy-harding/afternoonishness