Ummagumma
Songlist & Lyrics



STUDIO ALBUM



Featuring Richard Wright:


    SYSYPHUS  (Wright)

    band 1.    PART I
    band 2.    PART II
    band 3.    PART II
    band 4.    PART IV

    Instrumental



Featuring Roger Waters:


    band 5.    GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS  (Waters)

    Icy wind of night be gone
    This is not your domain
    In the sky a bird was heard to cry
    Misty morning whisperings
    and gentle stirring sounds
    Belied a deathly silence
    That lay all around

    Hear the lark and harken
    To the barking of the dog fox
    Gone to ground
    See the splashing
    Of the kingfisher flashing to the water
    And a river of green is sliding
    Unseen beneath the trees
    Laughing as it passes
    Through the endless summer
    Making for the sea

    In the lazy water meadow
    I lay me down
    All around me golden sunflakes
    Settle on the ground
    Basking in the sunshine
    Of a by-gone afternoon
    Bringing sounds of yesterday
    Into this city room

    Hear the lark and harken
    To the barking of the dog fox
    Gone to ground
    See the splashing
    Of the kingfisher flashing to the water
    And a river of green is sliding
    Unseen beneath the trees
    Laughing as it passes
    Through the endless summer
    Making for the sea





    band 6.     SEVERAL SPECIES OF SMALL FURRY ANIMALS GATHERED TOGETHER IN A CAVE AND GROOVING WITH A PICT  (Waters)

    Aye, an' a bit of mackerel, settler rack and down
    Ran it down by the home, and I flew
    Well, I slapped me and I flopped it down in the shade
    And I cried, cried, cried.

    The fear a fallen down had taken, never back the raise
    And then cried Mary, an' took out wi' your Claymore,
    Right outta a' pocket, I ran down, down the mountainside
    Back on Battlin the fiery horde that was falling around the feet.

    Never! He cried, never shall ye get me alive
    Ye rotten hound of the burnie crew!
    Well, I snatched fer the blade an' a Claymore cut and thrust,
    And I fell doon before him round his feet. Aye!

    A roar he cried!
    Frae the bottom of his heart
    That I would nay fall but as dead,
    Dead as I can by a' feet, d'ya ken?

    And the wind cried Mary.


 A hidden message (at half normal speed) is at 4:32-4:33. In the right speaker you can hear David saying: "This is pretty avant garde, isn't it?" If you play it at double speed, you can hear Roger saying: "Bring back my guitar"
Wave- - - Real Audio

You can also hear several other strange bits grooving along in this song:





Featuring David Gilmour:


    band 1.    THE NARROW WAY - Parts I, II & III  (Gilmour)


    Following the path
    As it leads towards the darkness in the north
    Weary strangers' faces show their sympathy
    They've seen that hope before

    And if you want to stay for a little bit
    Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
    Before you the night is beckoning
    And you know you can't delay
    You hear the night birds calling you
    But you can't catch the words they say
    Close your aching eyes beyond your name

    Mist is swelling, creatures crawling,
    Hear the roar get louder in your ears
    You know the folly was your own
    But the force behind can't conquer all your fears

    And if you want to stay for a little bit
    Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
    Before you the night is beckoning
    And you know you can't delay
    You hear the night birds calling you
    But you can't catch the words they say
    Close your aching eyes beyond your name

    Throw your thoughts back many years
    To the time when there was life in every morning
    Perhaps a day will come
    When the nights will be as close as that morning

    And if you want to stay for a little bit
    Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
    Before you the night is beckoning
    And you know you can't delay
    You hear the night birds calling you
    But you can't catch the words they say
    Close your aching eyes beyond your name







Featuring Nick Mason:


    band 2.    THE GRAND VIZIER'S GARDEN PARTY  (Mason)

    Part 1 - Entrance
    Part II - Entertainment
    Part III - Exit
Instrumental





LIVE ALBUM

Although the remastered CD and LP state that the live album was recorded at Mother's Club, Birmingham & Manchester College of Commerce, June 1969, the correct dates are Mother's Club in Birmingham on April 27, 1969, and the Manchester College of Commerce, May 2, 1969.



ASTRONOMY DOMINE  (Barrett)

    Lime and limpid green, a second scene
    A fight between the blue you once knew
    Floating down, the sound resounds
    Around the icy waters underground.
    Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda
    And Titania, Neptune, Titan,
    Stars can frighten...

    Lime and limpid green, a second scene
    A fight between the blue you once knew
    Floating down, the sound resounds
    Around the icy waters underground.
    Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda
    And Titania, Neptune, Titan,
    Stars can frighten...

    Blinding signs flap, flicker, flicker, flicker
    Blam pow, pow
    Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there...

    Lime and limpid green,
    The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground
    Lime and limpid green,
    The sound surrounds the icy waters
    Underground





CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE  (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour)



SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN  (Waters)

    Little by little the night turns around
    Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
    Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
    Under the eaves the swallow is resting
    Set the controls for the heart of the Sun

    Over the mountain watching the watcher
    Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
    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...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...

    Witness the man who raves 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...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...
    The heart of the Sun...



A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS  (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour)

    a. Something Else
    b. Syncopated Pandemonium
    c. Storm Signal
    d. Celestial Voices