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Columbia SX 6258 (mono) 1968 |
Lp mono: Columbia SX 6258
Lp stereo: Columbia SCX 6258
Recorded at EMI Abbey Road Studios Producered by Norman Smith
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Nick Mason,Syd Barrett,David Gilmour,Roger Waters,Rick Wright |
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
(music/lyrics Roger Waters)
Little by little the night turns around Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn Lotus's lean on each
other in union Over the hills where a swallow is resting Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Over the mountain watching the watcher Breaking the darkness waking the grapewine One inch of love is
one inch of shadow Love is the shadow that ripens the wine Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun...
Witness the man who arrives at the wall Making the shape of his question to heaven Whether the sun will
fall in the evening Will he remember the lesson of giving? Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun...
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1. Let There Be More Light
2. Remember A Day
3. Set The Controls For The
Heart Of The Sun
4. Corporal Clegg
5. A Saucerful Of Secrets
6. See - Saw
7. Jugband Blues
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related internet links
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who wrote'em, who sang'em
a piece of film featuring
Pink Floyd on a French
television programme
performing the said song.
the quality isn't good but
it's an interesting visual
document
a mass of single tracks, other versions
of familiar material and recordings of
early Pink Floyd concept events.
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Saucer Notes
Let There Be More Light : written by Roger Waters. The lyrics were supposedly based
on a member of an organized crime unit in London
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun: written by Roger Waters. features guitar
work by both David Gilmour and Syd Barrett. In the book Pink Floyd - through the eyes of... by Bruno McDonald, Roger
Waters admits to "borrowing" the lyrics from a book of Chinese poetry from the Tang Dynasty period (which has later been identified as the book Poems of the late T'ang, translated by A.C.
Graham). Some of the poetry came from Li He, whose poem Don't go out the door contains the line "witness the man who raged
at the wall as he wrote his question to heaven", and Li Shangyin, whose poetry contained the lines, "watch little by little the night
turn around", "countless the twigs which tremble in dawn," and, "one inch of love is an inch of ashes." The song is supposedly
about a suicidal spaceship pilot, who wants to die by flying into the sun and burning to death
Corporal Clegg: written by Roger Waters and features both Syd Barrett and
David Gilmour on guitar
the song notes are adapted from the Wikipedia entries
on the individual songs
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