Everyone here has no difficulty to say it's about a trip on LSD... and what do you do when you're in such a state? You have visions, you create a whole world that leaves from your mind. So if "domine" is latin, the latin word for "Master","Creator","God", literally "Lord", Syd may have been the Lord of Astronomy because of LSD... Lord of that new world in which vivid colours battle, typical sceneries that were in syd's mind appear, like the figures of planets and moons that may come from sci-fi or other experiences. And then the stairway scare of Dan Dare confronted with the vacuum terror of the mind trip or the careful choice of words to amplify given sounds... the song is quite simple: as it comes out by a genius mind (ok helped by lsd).
Everyone here has no difficulty to say it's about a trip on LSD... and what do you do when you're in such a state? You have visions, you create a whole world that leaves from your mind. So if "domine" is latin, the latin word for "Master","Creator","God", literally "Lord", Syd may have been the Lord of Astronomy because of LSD... Lord of that new world in which vivid colours battle, typical sceneries that were in syd's mind appear, like the figures of planets and moons that may come from sci-fi or other experiences. And then the stairway scare of Dan Dare confronted with the vacuum terror of the mind trip or the careful choice of words to amplify given sounds... the song is quite simple: as it comes out by a genius mind (ok helped by lsd).