Julia Dreams - (Syd Barrett) Pink Floyd
Sunlight bright upon my pillow
Lighter than an eiderdown
Will she let the
weeping willow
Wind his branches round
Julia dream, dreamboat queen, queen
of all my dreams
Every night I turn the light out
Waiting for the
velvet bride
Will the scaly armadillo
Find me where I'm hiding
Julia
dream, dreamboat queen, queen of all my dreams
Will the misty master break
me
Will the key unlock my mind
Will the following footsteps catch me
Am
I really dying
Julia dream, dreamboat queen, queen of all my dreams
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I love this one as much for the music as the lyric - the keyboards and sound effects juxtaposed against the acoustic guitar and Barratt's distinctive voice.
The dreamlike imagistic lyrics added to it create a rich, dream like virtual world. Barratt was master of internal rhyme, assonance and alliteration in his lyrics with his ABAB rhyme and internal rhyme but there's nothing mechanical about it as the 'B' lines are always full rhymes but sometimes work on the assonance (repetition of the vowel sounds) and the internal rhymes come in different places or sometime he uses alliteration for the effect as in misty master and other effects to get a musical sound to the lyrics. I'm not suggesting he did this conciously or mechanically but the musical techniques of poetry are part of the effect.
For all it's beauty and dreamlikeness, there is fear in there too and hiding. The scaly armadillo, the following footsteps etc.
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