Lyrics for Cirrus Minor as interpreted by Demau Senae

Cirrus Minor Lyrics
In a churchyard by a river
lazing in the haze of midday
laughing in the grasses and the graves

Yellow bird you are not lonely
in singing and in flying on
in laughing and in leaving

Willow weeping in the water
waving to the river-daughters
swaying in the ripples and the wreaths

On a trip to Cirrus Minor
saw a crater in the sun
A thousand miles of moonlight later

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operative11
03-18-2003

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This really sounds a lot like a desription of Granchester Meadows. With the psychidelic twist, I LOVE the effects they do.

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MushieMan
04-07-2005

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on a TRIP to cirrus minor. That about says it.

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JuliaDreamer
10-29-2005

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Yea it is like Granchester Meadows, never noticed that. Really good and melancholy song. MORE is quite good....the album...the movie kidna sucks, waste of $20.

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inpraiseoffolly
05-02-2006

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More, like OBC is an underrated album, but for reasons.

Take this song, for example. It is very good, but it could be made slightly better by doing this:

-Shorten the chirping of birds at the beginning to 30 seconds rather than one minute

-Shorten the end about thirty seconds to a minute as well.

There you've got a five star song, or so.

I understand that PF had some constraints in writing this song, lengthwise.

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agoxide
05-19-2006

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the song is about a bad trip roger waters had. on what? i don't know. probably lsd. what gives this song a 5 from me is the organ solo.

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inpraiseoffolly
06-02-2006

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Cirrus Minor is the north pole star. It is part of a constellation in the shape of a bear. And yeah, the organ solo is pretty amazing. One of my favorites off of More.

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inpraiseoffolly
06-14-2006

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This song is way better than Learning to Fly, but it has 50 fewer comments. Something seems wrong here, doesn't it?

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corporal_clegg
11-11-2006

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I love the way his voice reverbs when he sings "saw a crater in the sun, a thousand miles of moonlight later." And I love the British way that he pronounces "saw" as "sawr"

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Emperor_Nero
02-18-2007

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Awesome song! Definatly one of Pink Floyd's best.

There is a certain melancholy throughout the song, almost as if PF is saying that "all the good things that make us happy in the end, come to end. Whether it's the flowing river, or the chirping bird. Everything ends"

I think the lines "saw a crater in the sun" means that every great big love (like the sun) has a dark side (crater), and that whenever we meet a girl we trully love, there is still something about her that will unsatisfy us. Just my opinion.

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phasetransition
02-20-2007

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I'm with you clegg. This has to be my favorite. One's left with the incredibly deep mystery of, "wtf is a crater doing in the sun? Is that supposed to be there??"

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meltingman
08-07-2008

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filled with wonderful lyrics and colourful musical images . . .
"crater in the sun" ? ? ?
don't forget, kiddies, that this line harkens back to an earlier PF song "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", and they're seeing the crater left by their previous "flight" to the sun . . .
and, just for fun,
"Willow weeping", "River-daughter", for you Lord of the Rings buffs, a thinly disguised nod to Mr. Tom Bombadil and Old Man Willow . . .

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