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The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
the lunatics are in the hall
the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
and every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
and if there is no room upon the hill
and if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
you raise the blade, you make the change
you rearrange me ' till I'm sane
you lock the door
and throw away the key
there's someone in my head but it's not me
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is on the grass
remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
the lunatics are in the hall
the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
and every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
and if there is no room upon the hill
and if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
you raise the blade, you make the change
you rearrange me ' till I'm sane
you lock the door
and throw away the key
there's someone in my head but it's not me
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Track duration: 03:50
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" And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes"
References to when Syd was on stage he sometimes would play a different song that was not the one he was supposed to be playing. When a reporter asked him about this, he simply gave a blank expression, he never knew what he did actually happened, kinda like a dream.
On the grass is he talking about paranoid schizophrenics obsession with marijuana, was it synchronized with the Oz or is it symbolical?
Fuck it it's songmeanings eclipse is on.
On the grass is he talking about paranoid schizophrenics obsession with marijuana, was it synchronized with the Oz or is it symbolical?
Fuck it it's songmeanings eclipse is on.
The lunatic is in the hall
the lunatics are in the hall
the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
and every day the paper boy brings more
is referring to the crazy shit you read about in the paper.
The lines below to be are about schizophrenia and lobotomies.
The lunatic is in my head = "I'm crazy"
you raise the blade, you make the change "You lobotomize me"
you rearrange me ' till I'm sane "I stop freaking out.. externally"
you lock the door "I no longer can communicate."
and throw away the key "forget about me, I am zombified by the lobotomy, not a problem for you anymore"
there's someone in my head but it's not me "But I'm still crazy and in hell in my own head"
Lastly, the lines
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
Are 100% about Syd Barret. Sometimes Syd would just freak out on stage and start playing songs that no one else in the band knew. In his own head, he'd get blasted with a ringing in his ears, and he'd try to call out, but it was as if no one could hear or understand him.
This is definitely one of my favorite Floyd tunes.
The whole album can apply to this idea. I know some people don't believe they intentionally linked this to the Wizard of OZ (ounces), but look at what that book was really about. Follow the yellow brick road (gold bars), don't mind the man behind the curtain (the politicians/bankers) who are pulling the strings or secretly controlling our lives. We are not smart enough to understand (if I only had a brain / Brain Damage). It is actually related to the Silverite's movement. Her slippers were initially Silver and changed to Ruby red for the movie. There is much more to it than I can explain. You can find documentaries and articles linking the book to the economy.
Guesses:
I don't know all the details and it would be nice if someone else did, because I cannot seem to find many other people that have this interpretation. Lunatic on the grass = Green money or capitol hill? "Got to keep the loonies on the path" = Got to keep us in line. of coarse we are not loony, but what are we looked at as from the people in power. And if the dam breaks open many years too soon, And if there is no room upon the hill = If this system crashes or people are exposed to the truth, what would happen to our lives and what would happen to our property and farm land?
Do we know what is on the Dark Side of the Moon? We can only see 59% of the moons surface EVER. I still don't know what Pink Floyd (and mind opening psychedelics that link us to another dimension, see Joe Rogan DMT) thought about the moon, but some people say it has secret bases or even life on the other side. Were we planted here and being controlled? some people have theories, but I will refrain from looking weirder (to closed minded people), LOL. We do know that it does control our minds and our tides. So its not too crazy to theorize about it being here to calm the oceans and support life, plus we are 70% water and need the moon to survive.
You raise the blade, you make the change, You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane, You lock the door,and throw away the key, There's someone in my head but it's not me. = You manipulate the value of the dollar up and down in order to control and steal from us. When you bring it down, we lose our property, when you bring it up, we invest our last bit of wealth into the system and then you bring it down again to rob us until we are slaves. We are no longer who we should be because money controls our lives. "dig that hole, forget the sun (the truth, enlightenment, brightness) don't sit down its time to dig another one (slavery by economic control).
You shout and no one seems to hear, And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. = No one wants to listen to the truth. The system is setup for people like me to look crazy. I am playing a different tune by going against what people are led to believe. "For long you live and high you fly, But only if you ride the tide, And balanced on the biggest wave,You race towards an early grave." = Conform or die, you live long and go places if you ride the tide (conform) make waves and you die, not necessarily death, but even societies collective condemning of me will suffice to prove this one.
The song "Time" is a very good way to summarize the awakening of the people who see through this filter. The filter of true knowledge. its kind of like the album cover: filtering our minds from the light, the true colors, the Illuminati triangle and the all seeing eye is what separates "Us and them". Its the deception of reality. The truth about the moon, the truth about this world. What is being suppressed from us. "Us and them" is also interpreted as war. search Joe Rogan - The American War Machine on Youtube to see how it relates to the economy and stays within this concept.
Wikipedia:
While journeying to the Emerald City, she encounters a scarecrow, who represents a farmer; a woodman made of tin, who represents a worker dehumanized by industrialization; and a cowardly lion, who represents William Jennings Bryan, a prominent leader of the silverite movement.[34] The villains of the story, the Wicked Witch of the West and the Wicked Witch of the East, represent the wealthy railroad and oil barons of the American West and the financial and banking interests of the eastern U.S. respectively. Both these groups opposed Populist efforts to move the U.S. to a bimetallic monetary standard since this would have devalued the dollar and made investments less valuable.
"Witch is witch and who is who?" - "Us and them"
Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away.
Finally the songs "Brain Damage" ends with ""I can't think of anything to say except...
I think it's marvellous! HaHaHa!""
The album starts with "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
Finally, Eclipse ends with
"and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
If Roger Waters (song writer) thought money was so "corrupting" I'm wondering why he is putting so much effort in collecting it? Has he gone to the "Dark Side?" Did he get "greed?" ...that he feared would lead to insanity?
I always thought the "lunitac on the grass" was a reference to the "grassy noel" when JFK was shot? (10 years earlier)
A couple times he says "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" Is that like "I'll see you in hell?"
Roger Waters has stated that the insanity-themed lyrics are based on former Floyd frontman Syd Barrett's mental instability
Speak to me/Breathe = Working for the future at the expense of enjoying the present.
Time = It's all we have, and they years get shorter every time another passes. Don't waste it.
Money = We all want to live the dream. Sure it's the root of evil, but don;t take it from me. Just general ambitions and greed.
Us and Them... 100% sure it's about war. From the soldiers point of view mainly.
Eclipse = Your life is your experiences. But everything you do ripples into others lives as well. Or maybe it's about the "final judgment" where all your deeds are tallied up..
Maybe I'm wrong, and you're right. Hell that's what genius about Pink Floyd.. so abstract and spacy that it speaks differently to different people. Still, imo, best album of the best band.. ever :)
Second: pending
and every day the paper boy brings more
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result. Repetition. Fits that line.
Overall I do think that the whole album is contrasting Syd's life with the life of a normal, everyday, non-rock-legend person going crazy, just through the strain of life in society. The album up until this point is all the little tiny factors leading up to Bran Damage, which is once the person finally breaks under the strain. Eclipse, I believe, is just outside reflection on the rat race.
If you don't believe me, listen to this song on repeat for about 10 hours, absorbing every lyric, over and over again, and see if you don't end up crazy :P
Great song... great album... great band.
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These words mean everything. The song is about the indignation of societies contempt of uncustomary behavior. People walk on the pavement, the man who steps on the grass is the "lunatic".
"you raise the blade, you make the change
you rearrange me ' till I'm sane
you lock the door
and throw away the key
there's someone in my head but it's not me"
As already mentioned on this forum, these lines refer to a lobotomy, which is metaphorical for sociological conditioning. Pressure to conform, and escape the socially destructive label of lunatic, overwhelms, and people are changed mentally, their idiosyncratic ways perish, and as a result we all live with "Someone in our head, and it's not us".
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