Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2008
- An Effervescing Elephant
with tiny eyes and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next June he'd die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam.
The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home!
and every time I hear a growl
I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
and I'll be really safe, you know
the elephant he told me so."
Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippo-plankton food
and tended to ignore the word
preferring to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And all the jungle took fright,
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain, because, you see,
the tiger came and said: "Who me?!
You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.
I'd much prefer something to chew
and you're all to scant." oh yeah!
He ate the Elephant 
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It's not acid that makes a genius songwriter. It's talent.
Heightened by psychedelics..
And talent is developed
And acid eventually destroys talent.
Too bad bad talent died long ago
It's creativity no matter where it comes from
Syd's music is a genre of its own. So sorry we lost him so soon.
Got that right. Wish he was still around!!!!
i feel like i can hear syd laughing a bit as he's singing this
He definitely sounds like it. He seems to be enjoying himself XD
He wrote lyrics to this song when he was a child, so he was probably satisfied that he finally recorded it after all these years or he was just happily nostalgic
For me it sounded like he either lost breath or his voice started breaking with tears. I really hope it’s the first one and not the latter
go syd your a fucking genius. and so goddamn adorable.
amazing
YOUR A F*CKING GENIUS, too lov
your a genius for waking up and just being here at all
Jack Kelly simp
@@jackkelly4668🤡 doesn't take much to be a genius anymore I see
Roger waters or David Gilmour never in their wildest dreams would they have the creativity and out of the box vision and thinking to compose songs like Syd Barrett.
differents styles, syd is more childlish poetry, gilmour is more for adult ones, waters is a leftist anarchist.
@@adrianlarios6842 There's nothing "childish" about a gossiper who gets eaten alive.
@@tool_fighter need I remind you of the meaning behind ring around the rosie? The baby in the cradle falling out of a broken tree branch, the old man who broke his head during a thunder storm in the night and perished before sunrise, and pretty much all Disney movies?
Children seem to love that tragic stuff. Lol. I like Barrett's use of the natural world in this song.
@@surviveandstrive6436 Yes, me too. I was juat trying to correct the writer's description of Barrett's writings as being "childish", ie silly. "Childlike is more appropriate, though I don't think that is accurate either, though he was very innocent in many ways. Cheers
yes, it's a shame the direction they went after The Wall
I love syd barrett.
who doesn't?
I've been to syd barrets in england
And love Barrets you
@@kerwinsmith3659did you do acid with him and write a song?
@@joemac7690love and Barrett also
At the beggining of the song a tuba is heard playing part of the "The Elephant", from "The carnival of animals", a piece of classical music composed by Camile Saint-Saens.
woww.cool.
Yes! And this piece was originally made for double bass
Well spotted
Thanks!
coincidentally Saint-Saens music was used for babe the movie,farmer hoggetts dance was perhaps the most original composition from Saint-Saens . :D
Big Syd! You dindt really lose it. That sick world lost you I think..
+StrangeMachines1 One of the best comments I've seen on any Syd video.. Syd's music(now 80-90% has finally been released) is becoming more and more appreciated than ever. 10yrs ago, noone had a clue commenting on youtube. Now, since the facts have dribbled out.. he's soaring! Forever and a day my dear Syd!
For sure, with you there. I am 26 now and I was brought up on him around 15 and no one new they still dont lol. What a song this is man. I reviewed music in the newspaper and play in bands myself. This is on par with the kinks. Plz checkout my sub www.soundcloud.com/themetrognomez
He apparently wrote this song before he founded Pink Floyd. It didn't really fit in with Floyd, thus why it didn't make it onto an album until his post-Floyd albums.
@ strange machines most objective comment i have read about Syd Barrett.....thankyou
Exactly.
every time I hear this I laugh my ass off, and it makes me smile
these lyrics are so deep
for deep people :)
R U DEEP TOO?????????????????????????????????
Maybe it's about Syd's public image and how people are quick to spread and believe news. Like people who consider him a complete incurable madman represent the animals who panicked when they heard about the tiger.
Or I'm just reading too much into it
Actually these lyrics remind me of this guy back at my highschool, we often played a bit of football after school (soccer for Americans) and this guy was notoriously clumsy :D he literally was an elephant!
This song has a bizzarre hidden terrifying element to it.
i love it.
I respect Syd so much, being a musician I know how hard it can be to play guitar and remember all of those lyrics at once, all of what he says is in sweet timing, but yeah it's almost like he reads a book when he sings and it's beauiful
Our concept of insanity is not natural at all. Syd was very aware of the insanity of this world of ours. He did drugs as an escape from his "invented reality", but he let it go way too far, though he hardly seemed to survive from several overdoses, the last of which left him halfway in the middle of nowhere. A true genius who "reached for the secret too soon, he cried for the moon". He knew a lot of secrets and couldn't live with them. Listen to his lyrics more carefully. Cheers from Spain.
great storyteller he was
The way he says "who me?" on 1:18 is just too adorable
Syd was just amazing
Brilliant ditty. They didn't understand Syd's condition and (the band) felt bad enough to pay him royalties all his life and write songs about him all the time. Syd did something that only happens rarely. He captured a mood, a moment of magic. A poet really. He evokes the same feelings as Debussy, John Masefield, Helen Cresswell, Edgar Allen Poe, Kate Bush, Roald Dahl. Storytellers and poets. He pulled back the curtain of reality to the realm of magic
No they didn't, he died poor living with his mother. He may have squeaked by but he wasn't getting no big checks.
@@koDaffi Not true, his mother died long before and he left millions in his estate. He was receiving big checks until the day he died
@rigatone Well said! Only a handful of people have the stroke of genius and can access that other reality freely and bring it back to our realm in the form of art. He was one of the few 'illuminated' ones (and most definitely not mad).
@@koDaffino, he lived alone soon after living again with his mum, she moved out shortly, giving him the flat, after she found him too difficult.
When Syd takes LSD, LSD gets high
Random Username yeah and it starts making random masterpieces, man...
When Lsd took Syd, the band left Syd.
Brasileiro?
Yes.
@@marlontalacalooks like a portugueseman
This is the best song in the world.
I think Syd loved animals. Haha plus his song Octipus
And rats, wolfpack, terrapin(about underwater)
apparently 'cause he also owned a lot of cats from what I've heard
He also replaced his door knobs with toy hippopotamuses haha
@@mralexforbes really??
Psychedelic Reality yea man pretty sure it was the house he died in. I can’t remember exactly where I heard or read about it tho... probably jst a vid on him on YT
Approximately one minute and 20 seconds (excluding intro and outro) of PURE GENIUS! So adorable in this song. I have the double vinyl "the madcap laughs", bought it in 1986 or so, and I love every song in it, but THIS, and Rats, are my favs
Thats a nice way to end a song!"Oh ya he ate the elephant."
Exactly what I was thinking XD
This song seriously just made my day. I love him for songs like this.
clever as hell
The "effervescing elephant" probably was no other than SYD ...
Wow. Wait... do u mean he got EATEN!?
Do you realize how lucky you are to have had a mother who knew of, listened to and appreciated the genius of Syd Barrett?
21 people are too scant.
Jon now 25 😞
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Gotta love the tuba on this, sounds just like an elephant!!!
This should be made a children's nursery rhyme/sing along, would be awseome to see some kids singing some "Syd"!
Forget your Dylans and Joplins.. this is where its at British and proud as punch. Syd. Xxx
"Stupid water bison" 😂😂
i turn into a little kid when i hear this song, love it
Dear Syd. So many reasons to love his music but for me it's his polished, precise diction. The best rounded 'o' sounds in pop!
He was genius this man
My mam used to sing this to me when I was a baby.
You mean u mum
@@dawhoda1 nah I mean mam
I love Syd Barrett!
I always thought Syd was one of the first Mods or Goths. my mom was a 60s gothic mod in Berkeley. just interesting culture.
It's so...so...
There are no words. I LOVE IT!!!!! :D Crazy song from my favourite Crazy Diamond :)
¡Happy Birthday, Syd!
There is so many addicting music
Real Pink Flyod
The best song ever written
This story is so sad. :(
Is it weird that this might be my favorite song of all songs?
No
i love this kind of songs, so childish and cute but still great lyrics and music
It's almost like he invented rap with this song, so funny.
Such a silly and humerous song. Love it!
How creative
Happy new year dear Mr. Barrett! No matter how far or where your soul is, HAPPY 2011, if time exist in your new home
High ✨❤️, love u Syd .
I don't think he went crazy. They say he went mad because of all the LSD he took, but his sister and even a therapist said there was nothing wrong with him. Maybe he was just tripping all the time!
RW use that because of the fault, DG same way, they betrayed an old friend. Imagine the pain of Syd... I think it was horrible, your friends of childhood leave them apart.
The family of Syd was in the medical ambience in Cambridge. The father was a pathologist... They could get help for Syd even for free... And i'm sure they did it.
He was a good person, very sensitive, with problems like every human people, trying to fit in a place full of sharks.
When he was tired of that, decided to be in the place where no one is gonna hurt them because they loved them... His home.
This is a really bad analogy, but when my husban left me he said every one I was crazy and a b**ch. He' s in his 4th marriage.
Like we said in my country... "Tiempo al tiempo".
Syd was an artist, ahead of his time.
Just my point of view.
You just have to remember these people are like anybody else you don't know.... but you hear about them and read about them.. they only let you know what you're supposed to know... you don't know these people ...you don't know how nice or good they are ...same goes for a musician and actor on television or your favorite sports hero... you don't know that person... you don't know who put them up to do what they're doing ...you don't know what they're doing.... everything delivered to you through the media is just like a soap opera.. well written to make you think and perceive things in a certain way ...don't trust anything don't even trust the words I'm saying ...research it yourselfn
why all musicians taking same lsd ,which mustnt been strong like now all normal have reunion tours before covid
plenty great female muscician writers too silenced
@@fabiolalugo5505 you dont know what you're talking about stop feeding this other ignorant syd fans lies.
Syd was a genius
The lyrics in this song! Poetry! Read them without listening to the song, and you can hear the musicality. It doesn't even need music.
i sit in my garden a lot and get some dodgy looks from my neighbours when this plays on my playlist. lol
it's the last song from "Barrett" (: ... Make sure you give "Madcap Laughs" a listen too.. And well of course Piper at the Gates of Dawn..
I have madcap laughs and piper.
You miss the point....... He ate the Elephant.......
It may not sound like it but this is one of the most haunting and well-written songs he did. That's the way I see it anyway. Maybe I am adding a sort of dimension to it knowing his story. But I really think it's haunting how he is expressing whatever was happening to him in such a childish way. And on the other hand it's a story. You may call it a children's story but it's a story. In my book that's when a songwriter earns my respect; when they can really write a story and make it a song.
What a genius song, I absolutely adore it.
It's written by the same person who wrote gloomy "Golden hair" and dark 'Opel"
Vest The best he didn’t write golden hair, it’s a poem
thanks. Didn't know that
Not here so much but even in his bounciest, trippiest songs there's still so much darkness and bleakness that with or without any drugs he was naturally drawn into what we call "insanity".
I always loved this guy since the '80s when I went on a P-Floyd feeding frenzy -- but you always knew Syd like a solo performer and Floyd after him as something totally different.
so fcking brilliant !
syd was a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mum loved Syd Barrett
your mom probably did a lot of drugs
LMFAO
and then Kevin was born )
That's an old Bonneville, right? SWEET.
Genius, Lyricist
Solo Syd puede escribir una canción infantil y hacerla interesante. Que incluso el album que tenia tendencias a la depresión, termine con esta canción "feliz" es un poco crudo y bizarro.
This reminds me of being a kid which is strange because I was born in 1995. . . but somehow Barrett writing reminds me of early childhood.
Syd Barrett thank you.
classic genius.
What else could he have done we can only wonder
Amen.
Also for any Beatles fans out there he died the day ringo was born many years later. The connection of 2 legends
Lmao yeah
very silly and fun to listen
i love syd, hope he's in a better place now
This is the sequel, the great continuation, of all the began back then. What a great time to live. keep your eyes and heart open.
this is definitely one of my favorite songs ever
Thanks for sharing. One of my favs but then syd was a genius imoho.
Fuckin' brilliant.
His spicy hippo plankton food
Il a du bien se marrer en écrivant cela !
I love Syd. That's all....
Syd wuz a mad musical Dr. Seuss!
Lucky guy, i only learnt about Syd Barrett recently, and just got round to really listening to him this week. I've been transformed musically after listening to his stuff. And encouraged because some of the stuff here and there in his tracks i noticed, was very similar to some of the stuff i've been playing - i've only been playing 2 years, but to hear something so different and creative that has a relation to my style makes my eyes water :')
man he looks damn cool in that photo.
syd always allowed brevity to be the soul of wit! huzzzah!
love u syd.
It’s like a darker version of a Julia Donaldson book, I love it
we miss you terribly,terrapin... r.i.p forever syd!!! xxx
Every day, from your birth to the eternity, SYD, shine more, and more. Every day more... This song here → ♥
pure brilliance.
Syd Barrett passed away on this day in 2006 :(
RIP Syd!
Thank you tack, me ol best friend
what a wonderful man he was
as a genX, i have come to realize the tremendous amount of influence that syd had on musicians of the 80s. Jesus and Mary Chain and Michael Stipe paid him a great deal of respect. JAMC recorded Vegetable Man on their first album, and when REM was touring for the Green album, Stipe would sing Dark Globe in concert. I believe REM also introduced the song live on stage as early as late 1987 for the Document tour. It eventually ended up on the B-side of the Orange Crush single.
shine on you crazy Dimond
I like your taste in music, Syd and Yes are my two very favorite artists/bands .
Oh Syd!
@Donkeyn00b After suffering from diabetes for several years, Barrett died at his home in Cambridge on Friday 7 July 2006. He was 60 years old. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer
Sorry sciscia79, Octopus40 has the words absolutely right but it's very nice to hear someone put their point of view in such a non-arrogant way as you have. That is to say that I've always heard it as: "the ear of one inferior". Sorry that people have marked you down for having a different idea. I think that's a bit unfair. Have another listen and I think you'll agree, Octopus40 has the words spot on :)
stupid water bison. I love that.
this is a beautiful song in many different ways.
brilliant mind!
jaja, the lyrics are amazing, I love you Syd, we miss you man.