Story Behind The Song

This song was inspired by a story about Pink Floyd's early front man, Syd Barrett's disintegration into mental illness. The story describes a particular performance where Mr Barrett was under the influence of large amounts of hallucinogens. Before the s

Song Description

This song was inspired by a story about Pink Floyd's early front man, Syd Barrett's disintegration into mental illness. The story describes a particular performance where Mr Barrett was under the influence of large amounts of hallucinogens. Before the s

Lyrics

The Melting Man
(Allison, Ramsay2 )

Here I stand within a brilliant light
a strange sound swims here in my brain tonight
and all I feel I don't quite understand
my twisted fate has made a melting man
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Now all I touch slips through my hands
a skeleton fist full of sand
A man of wax at your command
and it's made me the melting...
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Man, I've always seen through liquid sky
and kept my obscene music deep inside
but now my frame of wax is wearing thin
as all hope fades from me the melting man
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Now all I touch slips through my hands
if it were you I'd understand
there's no way out, not once your in
and so begin the melting man
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Ooooooh, Help me
there's someone in my head but it ain't me
I'm melting
Between the cracks of sanity
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Now all I touch slips through my hands
If it were you I'd understand
I've learned to break but not to bend
come watch me bleed, the melting man
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Now all I touch slips through my hands
a skeleton fist full of sand
A man of wax at your command
I leave you as the melting man...