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LET THERE BE MORE LIGHT (Roger Waters) in « A Saucerful of Secrets » (1968)

David Gilmour: vocals, electric rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals; Rick Wright: vocals, organ, backing vocals; Roger Waters: bass guitar, backing vocals; Nick Mason: drums, percussion.

Far, far, far, far away – way

People heard him say – say

I will find a way – way

There will come a day – day

Something will be done

Then at last the mighty ship

Descending on a point of flame

Made contact with the human race

At Mildenhall

ow, now, now is the time – time

Time to be – be – be aware

Carter’s father saw him there and

Knew the road revealed to him

The living soul of Hereward the Wake

Oh, my, something in my eye – eye

Something in the sky – sky

Waiting there for me

The outer lock rolled slowly back

The service men were heard to sigh

For there revealed in glowing robes

Was Lucy in the sky

Oh – oh – did you ever know – know

Never ever will they

I cannot say

Summoning his cosmic powers

And glowing slightly from his clothes

His psychic emanations flowed

REMEMBER A DAY (Rick Wright) • « A Saucerful of Secrets » (1968), « Relics » (1971) © 1968 & 1980 Hampshire House Publishing Corp.

Syd Barrett: acoustic rhythm guitar, electric slide guitar, vocal effects; Rick Wright: vocals, piano; Roger Waters: bass, vocal effects; Norman Smith: drums.

Syd Barrett:

«I was self-taught and my only group was Pink Floyd. I was not featured on ‘Corporal Clegg’ but did play on another track written by Richard Wright. I forget the title but it had a steel guitar in the background »

Rick Wright:

«I cringe at some of my songs - such as Remember A Day. We were pretty amateurish at the time, but I don't think it was just my stuff that doesn't sound so good now (…) Syd was the songwriter and then we came in and had to take over the song writing and it was a lot of responsibility to assume»

«Richard Wright interview by Mark Blake», August 1996

Norman Smith (Prducer):

« As musicians, the Floyd were capable enough, but again Nick Mason would be the first to agree that he was no kind of technical drummer. In fact, I remember recording a number — I can't now recall which one — and there had to be a drum roll, and of course he didn't have a clue what to do. I had been a drummer, and so I had to do that. Nick was no threat to Buddy Rich! Roger Waters, on the other hand, was an adequate bass player for what they did, but to be honest he used to make more interesting noises with his mouth. He had a ridiculous repertoire of mouth noises, and we used that on one or two things »

« Norman Smith and Syd Barrett », Sydbarrettpinkfloyd.com, 10 January 2014.

Remember a day before today

A day when you were young

Free to play alone with time

Evening never come

Sing a song that can’t be sung

Without the morning’s kiss

Queen – you shall be it if you wish

Look for your king

Why can’t we play today?

Why can’t we stay that way?

Climb your favorite apple tree

Try to catch the sun

Hide from your little brother’s gun

Dream yourself away

Why can’t we reach the sun?

Why can’t we blow the years away?

Blow away

Blow away

Remember

Remember

Remember

SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN (Roger Waters) in « A Saucerful of Secrets » (1968) © 1968 Westminster Music Ltd.

Syd Barrett: electric lead guitar; David Gilmour: guitar; Rick Wright: organ, vibraphone, gong; Roger Waters: vocals, bass; Nick Mason: drums.

Sound FX: Seagulls (METTRE REFERENCE)

Roger Waters:

« It was one of my first songs of Pink Floyd, and one of my first compositions»

Richard Wright:

« That was Roger's song. Yeah, that was also, that was just another indication of the way we were going. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, into that kind of music »

« The Pringle Program », Montreal Radio, December 1978

Peter Jenner:

«It was the first song that Roger wrote that stood up against Syd’s songs, which was significant at the time»

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

Witness the man who raves at the wall

Making the shape of his questions to Heaven

Whether the sun will fall in the evening

Will he remember the lesson of giving?

CORPORAL CLEGG (Roger Waters) • « A Saucerful of Secrets » (1968)

David Gilmour: vocals, electric rhythm and lead guitar, kazoo, backing vocals; Rick Wright: organ, backing vocals; Roger Waters: bass, backing vocals; Nick Mason: vocals, drums; Stanley Myers Orchestra: horns.

Roger Waters:

«I remember buying, I think, 50 kazoos in Seattle, Washington State. I don’t remember what year. We were playing a gig. We must have done “Corporal legg”, because the real memory I have is these

50 kazoos and people n the audience going, Vrrrrppp, vrrrpppp” and all that. I like the line, Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg/He won it in the war”. Not, “He got it in the war”, or, “He lost it in the war”. But, “He won it in the war”. It’s an interesting twist n the idea of commendation»

«The protest singer», Uncut, January 2016

Rick Wright:

« Something like Corporal Clegg, which was one of Roger's songs, is just as bad (…) We could never write like Syd, we never had the imagination to come out with the kind of lyrics he did »

« Richard Wright interview by Mark Blake », August 1996.

Interviewer: « Was Corporal Clegg on «Saucerful Of Secrets» a deliberate Hendrix-style sound that you were going for ? »

Gilmour: « No, not really. I didn't know what the hell I was trying to play at the time to be quite honest. I'd really no idea. What I was used to playing, the style I had, didn't fit Pink Floyd at the time, and I didn't really know quite what to do. Gradually over the years my style changed to fit Pink Floyd, and Pink Floyd changed to fit my style ».

« The Rise of Pink Floyd and the Decline of Syd Barrett », Guitar Heroes, May 1983.

Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg

He won it in the war

In 1944

Corporal Clegg had a medal too

In orange, red, and blue

He found it in the zoo

Dear oh dear oh were they really sad for me?

Dear oh dear oh will they really laugh at me?

Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him

Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin?

Corporal Clegg umbrella in the rain

He’s never been the same

No one is to blame

Corporal Clegg received his medal in a dream

From Her Majesty the Queen

His boots were very clean

Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him

Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin?

A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS (Roger Waters/Rick Wright/Nick Mason/David Gilmour) in « A Saucerful of Secrets » (1968) | Produced by Norman Smith

David Gilmour: electric guitar, various sound effects, backing vocals; Roger Waters: bass, percussion, various sound effects, backing vocals;; Rick Wright: Farfisa organ, piano, Mellotron, various sound effects, backing vocals; Nick Mason: drums, percussion, various sound effects.

Nick Mason:

« Well I think the one on the LP is a gas. It’s like a different piece of music really »

« Pink Floyd, The mad scientists of this age », The Grapevine, 16 January 1972

SEE-SAW (Richard Wright) • « A Saucerful of Secrets » (1968) © 1968 Hampshire House Publishing Corp.

David Gilmour: acoustic guitar, electric rhythm and lead guitar; Rick Wright: vocals, organ, piano, Mellotron, xylophone; Roger Waters: bass; Nick Mason: drums, percussion.

Marigolds are very much in love, but he doesn’t mind

Picking up his sister, he makes his way into the see saw land

All the way

She smiles

She goes up while he goes down, down

Sits on a stick in the river

Laughter in his sleep

Sister’s throwing stones, hoping for a hit

He doesn’t know so then

She goes up while he goes down, down

Another time, aaah

Another day, aaah

A brother’s way to leave

Another time, aaah

Another day, aaah

She’ll be selling plastic flowers on a Sunday afternoon

Picking up weeds, she hasn’t got the time to care

All can see he’s not there

She grows up for another man, and he’s down

Another time, another day

A brother’s way to leave

Another time, another day

Another time, another day

A brother’s way to leave

JUGBAND BLUES (Syd Barrett) • « A Saucerful of Secrets » (1968) | Produced by Norman Smith © 1968 Hampshire House Publishing Corp.

Syd Barrett: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric lead guitar; Roger Waters: bass guitar; Rick Wright: keyboards; Nick Mason: drums; Unidentified musicians: Salvation Army brass band, kazoo, castanets.

Rick Wright:

« The first thing that came into his head were the lyrics, and his next priority was making the words rhyme. He'd come up with amelody later, but never paid much attention to time signatures. Syd's songs were great, but the tempos were alwavs changing. That made things quite difficult for the band»

«Blow Up», Mojo 60’s, July 2016

Nick Mason:

« The most wonderful, poignant farewell, with the Salvation Army Band. So mournful. We were recording in Holborn at the time, somewhere underground. Somedy made a phone call and the Salvation Army Band showed up. It was a difficult session, the same time we recorded Scream thy last Scream and Vegetable Man ».

« I like the poetry of it …», Collector’s special Edition, 2020.

t’s awfully considerate of you to think of me here

And I’m most obliged to you for making it clear that I’m not here

And I never knew the moon could be so big

And I never knew the moon could be so blue

And I’m grateful that you threw away my old shoes

And brought me here instead dressed in red

And I’m wondering who could be writing this song

I don’t care if the sun don’t shine

And I don’t care if nothing is mine

And I don’t care if I’m nervous with you

I’ll do my loving in the winter

And the sea isn’t green

And I love the Queen

And what exactly is a dream?

And what exactly is a joke?