LUCIFER SAM
PINK FLOYD - THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Lucifer Sam, siam cat.
Always sitting by your side
Always by your side.
That cat's something I can't explain.
Ginger, ginger, Jennifer Gentle you're a witch.
You're the left side
He's the right side.
Oh, no!
That cat's something I can't explain.
Lucifer go to sea.
Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat.
Somewhere, anywhere.
That cat's something I can't explain.
At night prowling sifting sand.
Hiding around on the ground.
He'll be found when you're around.
That cat's something I can't explain.
Lucifer Sam, siam cat.
Always sitting by your side
Always by your side.
That cat's something I can't explain.
Ginger, ginger, Jennifer Gentle you're a witch.
You're the left side
He's the right side.
Oh, no!
That cat's something I can't explain.
Lucifer go to sea.
Be a hip cat, be a ship's cat.
Somewhere, anywhere.
That cat's something I can't explain.
At night prowling sifting sand.
Hiding around on the ground.
He'll be found when you're around.
That cat's something I can't explain.
Lucifer Sam è una canzone dei Pink Floyd, inserita nel loro album di debutto, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
La canzone è costruita su di una riff discendente, il cui elemento dominante è la chitarra elettrica di Syd Barrett, effettata con quello che oggi si chiamerebbe "delay"; il suono risultante è stato spesso definito come un sinistro Duane Eddy.[1] L'effetto viene aumentato dal resto della strumentazione, che segue il ritmo di Barrett.
Nonostante il testo parli frequentemente di Lucifer Sam come un gatto, spesso sono sorte alcune controversie riguardanti il fatto che forse, invece, Barrett volesse riferirsi all'amante (hip cat), reale o immaginario, che fece finire la sua relazione con la fidanzata di allora, Jenny Spires (la Jennifer Gentle della canzone).
Ad ogni modo, Sam era semplicemente il soprannome che Barrett affibbiava al proprio animale domestico, il gatto Rover; la traccia era originariamente stata intitolata Percy the Rat Catcher durante le sessioni di registrazione.
"Coming directly after the (literally) spacy "Astronomy Domine" as the second song on Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the harder-rocking "Lucifer Sam" reaffirms Pink Floyd's increasingly tenuous connection to the rock & roll mainstream. The driving chord progression -- which bears a striking resemblance to Neal Hefti's "Batman" theme, in much the same way that "Interstellar Overdrive" owes an obvious debt to Love's "My Little Red Book" -- anchors the song in fairly standard garage band territory. At heart, it doesn't sound much different from something the Who might have done around the same time, and it should be noted that "Lucifer Sam" is one of Pink Floyd's most-covered songs for that reason, with paisley underground vets True West, art-noise terrorists Shockabilly, and goth stalwarts Love and Rockets all tackling the song within a couple years of each other. (Captain Beefheart-inspired Italian neo-psychedelic duo Jennifer Gentle, incidentally, joined the ever-swelling ranks of bands that took their names from Syd Barrett songs by lifting a lyric from this tune.) However, Rick Wright's churning organ solos between Barrett's elliptical verses, as well as the strange whip-like echoing percussion noises that crop up randomly throughout, connect the song to Pink Floyd's own aesthetic, as do Barrett's entirely logical but puckishly epigrammatic lyrics."
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