Ummagumma
Released October 25, 1969

Album Songs
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"Astronomy Domine"
"Careful With That Axe, Eugene"
"Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun"
"A Saucerful Of Secrets"
"Sysyphus"
"Grantchester Meadows"
"Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict"
"The Narrow Way"
"The Grand Vizier's Garden Party"
"Embryo" (not on album)

Credits

Astronomy Domine - Barrett
Careful With That Axe, Eugene - Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun- Waters
A Saucerful Of Secrets - Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour
Sysyphus - Wright
Grantchester Meadows - Waters
Several Species... - Waters
The Narrow Way - Gilmour
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party

Disc 1
Recorded at Mothers Birmingham and Manchester College of Commerce
Engineered by Brian Humphries
Produced by Pink Floyd

Disc 2
Produced by Norman Smith
Design and Photographs by Hipgnosis


Lyrics

Astronomy Domine

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
The fight between the blue you once knew
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn
Oberon, Miranda and Titania
Neptune, Titan
Stars can frighten

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
The fight between the blue you once knew
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn
Oberon, Miranda and Titania
Neptune, Titan
Stars can frighten

Blinding signs flap
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam
Pow, pow
Stairway scare Dan dare who's there?

Lime and limpid green, the sounds around
The icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around
The icy waters underground

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

(Instrumental)

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotus's lean on each other in yearning
Over the hills a swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Over the mountain
Watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness
Waking the grapevine
Knowledge of love is knowledge 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 (repeating)

Witness the man who waves 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?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun (repeating)

A Saucerful of Secrets

(Instrumental)

Sysyphus

(Instrumental)

Granchester Meadows

"Icy wind of night be gone this is not your domain"

In the sky a bird was heard to cry
Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds
Belie the deathly silence that lay all around

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox
Gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes through the endless summer
Making for the sea

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down
All around me golden sun flakes settle on the ground
Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox
Gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down
All around me golden sun flakes covering the ground
Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox
Gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict

"Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruin Ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place. Well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side and I cried, cried, cried."

"The fear a fallen down taken never back the raize and then Craig Marion, get out wi' ye Claymore out mi pocket a' ran doon, doon the middin stain picking the fiery horde that was fallen around ma feet. Never he cried, never shall it ye get me alive ye rotten hound of the burnie crew. Well I snatched fer the blade. O my Claymore cut and thrust and I fell doon before him round his feet."

"Aye! A roar he cried frae the bottom of his heart that I would nay fall but as dead, dead as 'a can be by his feet; de ya ken?...and the wind cried back."

[In English] "Thank you."

The Narrow Way

Following the path as it leads toward
The darkness in the north
Weary stranger's faces show their sympathy
They've seen that hope before

And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on your way

Mystery swelling, creatures crawling
Hear the roar ger louder in your ears
You know the folly was your own
But the force behind can't conquer all you fears

And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning and you know
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds callling you
But you can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on your way

Throw your thoughts back many years
To the time when there was light with every dawning
Perhaps a day will come when the light will be as bright as on that morning

And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on your way

The Grand Vizier's Garden Party

(instrumental)

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