The far distant shore 2


Syd used grey to describe a sad, distant rain in "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.
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