This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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What is with all Pink Floyd "fans" attibuting all of their work to the descriptions and/or effects of an acid trip??? Why does it seem like nobody can listen to how deep and beautiful the (sometimes crazy or "trippy" sounding) music is without just thinking "ohh mannn, drug trip central"? I've never even done any psychadelic drugs before, and I can appreciate this kind of sound. It's dramatic and sounds really cool and emotional. Aren't humans capable of enjoying and understanding that kind of stuff without being on LSD or shrooms?? Uhhhhh I think so.
I enjoy Floyd IMMENSLEY, and never touch the stuff.
(To "Thing") It's not that you need to be stoned or tripping to enjoy Floyd's music... most certainly not. It's just... You reach this sense of your own personal understanding (of anything really), and afterwards that song or concept means something more to you. That's why many people enjoy listening to The Floyd on cannabis or acid.
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this song is truley amazing....for me it definatley defines the term,Psycadelic, syd is a mad genius....wait.....he is a mad ACID head genius...
Great song, check out the cover of it by Hawkwind
Yeah, it's great. There are much more covers of this song. Pearl Jam did one, Melvins and Electric Wizard.
Of the several versions 'floating' around out there, the best is live in Rotterdam, 1967 (w/ Syd, of course). Absolutely crazed & no-holds-barred.
On what album is the live version with Syd Barret your talking about?<br />
Similar to Echoes, but without the architecture, deep lyrics, or other things which make people (including myself) weep over that song. Syd, by the way, did not "write" it; it was a group thing. Look at the credits. They all contributed.
The best way to hear this song is on headphones. Back and forth. It will drive you crazy.
yeah at the end on headphones, it goes back and forth, so crazy. It sounds sorta like the cold war put into music.
Interstellar Overdrive is an aural replica of an LSD trip. It goes from excitement to confusion or paranoia feelings (the scary part) just like an lsd trip does
And all the space stuff has to do with this: "Syd had his plum, orange and matchbox and was sitting staring at them during his trip. Whatever he was into was his whole world - to him the plum was the planet Venus and the orange was Jupiter. Syd was floating in space between them."
This song is awesome, and if you like it, you should check out Nick's Boogie. They are very similar, except the Boogie is better.