Mental illness has very little to do with Syd's lyrics. When you look at most of them they are coherent in meaning (EX here I go, Opel, Late Night, I Never Lied To You, Vegetable Man, Jugband Blues, ect.). Then there are others where they are incoherent in meaning but are not word salads because they have meter and rhyme (Bike and Octopus are prime examples). This song falls into a third category I believe. When I was in my teens and wrote poetry I would write random thoughts that I would call Blender Thought Sessions. The idea was that by writing randomly I would capture the raw emotion of that moment in time. I believe that Dark Globe was Syd doing what I used to do, another example of this would be Baby Lemonade. So its either random thoughts or the verses are a description of a painting in his head.
Lastly Syd was not mentally ill. While you can bring up story after story from this time period that leads to the contrary remember this is what Syd was doing; his flat was basically a party pad, he was doing manorix, smoking pot, using LSD, and there is suspected speed and heroin use. So not mentally ill just slowly fried his brains with drugs. I also think Syd was agoraphobic. When Floyd got signed he went from UFO club where no one is really paying attention and are probably too high to care what you play, to possibly larger audiences that did care and had expectations. So a lot of his antics on stage were probably really weird panic attacks. In 74 when he was playing in the band stars he was fine until he got on stage.
Mental illness has very little to do with Syd's lyrics. When you look at most of them they are coherent in meaning (EX here I go, Opel, Late Night, I Never Lied To You, Vegetable Man, Jugband Blues, ect.). Then there are others where they are incoherent in meaning but are not word salads because they have meter and rhyme (Bike and Octopus are prime examples). This song falls into a third category I believe. When I was in my teens and wrote poetry I would write random thoughts that I would call Blender Thought Sessions. The idea was that by writing randomly I would capture the raw emotion of that moment in time. I believe that Dark Globe was Syd doing what I used to do, another example of this would be Baby Lemonade. So its either random thoughts or the verses are a description of a painting in his head. Lastly Syd was not mentally ill. While you can bring up story after story from this time period that leads to the contrary remember this is what Syd was doing; his flat was basically a party pad, he was doing manorix, smoking pot, using LSD, and there is suspected speed and heroin use. So not mentally ill just slowly fried his brains with drugs. I also think Syd was agoraphobic. When Floyd got signed he went from UFO club where no one is really paying attention and are probably too high to care what you play, to possibly larger audiences that did care and had expectations. So a lot of his antics on stage were probably really weird panic attacks. In 74 when he was playing in the band stars he was fine until he got on stage.