Syd Barrett - Crazy Diamond
Crazy Diamond    26th April 1993

"Octopus" (Take 1 & 2)    (Barrett)
"Octopus" (take 1)

Trip to…

“Should I do that?”


“Octopus” (take 2)

“After”

Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro
You have no word
Trip, trip to a dream dragon
Hide your wings in a ghost tower
Sails cackling at every plate we break
Cracked by scattered needles
The little minute gong
Coughs and clears his throat
Madam you see before you stand
Hey ho, never be still
The old original favourite grand.

Grasshoppers green herbarian band
And the tune they play is "In Us Confide"

So trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro
You have no word
Please leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!

Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
Meant even less to me than I thought
With a money plough, yellow prickly seeds
Clover honey pots and mystic shining feed.

The madcap laughed at the man on the border
Hey ho, huff the Talbot
The winds they blew and the leaves did wag
And they'll never put me in their bag
The ragging seas will always seep
Two up, two down, will never meet
The squeaking door will always squeak
So high you go, so low you creep
The wind it blows in tropical heat
Two up, two down, will never meet
So merrily trip and good my side
Please leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!

Fuck up
Touching hips
To a madcap galloping chase
"Cheat!" he cried.  Shouted kangaroo

"It's true in their tree", they cried.
Please leave us here…
This box set was a repackaging of The Madcap Laughs, Barrett, and Opel with various bonus tracks included at the end of each disc.  All these bonus tracks were just different takes on previously released material.  Nothing really new, but some songs had slightly different lyrics.