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Tales From The Asylum - Dark Poetry
Psychedelic Syd An old man died in the asylum last week He was quite heavy and his hair was receding He used to rave and rant a lot And quote weird poetry He claimed he was a lead singer in a band Which had some hits in the sixties They had released an album that did quite well They toured all the psychedelic clubs around the country The music was literally mind-blowing Ten minutes of thrashing guitars and drums Psychedelic slideshows filled the background They were all high on drugs This inmate claimed he wrote all the songs for the band And the drugs helped to inspire him He wrote about trips to Jupiter and Mars And other far off places About sitting in hayfields and dancing in circles And staring at the sun They envisioned a new society based on love and peace The inmate claimed that the drugs had blown his mind And he could not cope with the pressures of the job He was thrown out of the band And lost all his money over time All the other members of the band became rich But he spent his time being moved from institution to institution I don’t know if there is any truth in his story He didn’t seem like a rock star Although he could be pretty wild at times When he started to rant And quoted all that psychedelic nonsense The other inmates called him Psychedelic Syd “Shine on you crazy diamond”
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