Singer and guitarist revisited “Octopus” and “Dominoes,” two tracks he had co-produced for Barrett in 1970
Gilmour explained during the family stream that he is editing an upcoming collection of Barrett’s lyrics. “The lyrics have never been printed properly,” Gilmour said. “Syd never wrote them down. They were never properly transcribed. There are all sorts of different versions of all of them.”
As for “Dominoes,” Gilmour said that the lyrics were merely about playing a game of dominoes. He said it was his favorite Barrett song: “There’s something very still about it.” Elsewhere, he went on to explain the origins of Pink Floyd and how his friendship with Barrett goes back to when they were both 14 years old, as well as how they spent their time in art school. “He was this maverick writer and leader,” Gilmour said. “He was a couple of years younger than the other guys, but he was very, very bright. Somehow, very, very sadly, he lost his mind. There are all sorts of theories as to why he lost his mind, and certainly I suspect it was exacerbated by his drug use.
As for Barrett’s lyrics, Gilmour said he felt that the artist was often making them up as he went along, since he never wrote them down. “It was very similar to the way that he talked,” Gilmour said. “You’re struggling to get to grips with what he’s meaning. It’s not gobbledygook; they definitely mean something to him, but there’s a sort of a barrier between him and me and anyone else that prevents us from being able to hear it.
Regarding “Octopus,” Gilmour pointed out the line, “The madcap laughed at the man on the border,” and said he suggestedas the title of the album. “I think the word ‘madcap’ doesn’t mean mad, it means zany,” Gilmour said. Upon revisiting the master tapes, though, Gilmour said he found out that Barrett had actually sung “the mad cat laughs” — “so I named it wrongly in 1969,” he said.
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