Vegetable Man Lyrics
In yellow shoes I get the blues
Though I walk the streets with my plastic feet
With my blue velvet trousers, make me feel pink
There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
In my paisley shirt I look a jerk
And my turquoise waistcoat is quite out of sight
But oh oh my haircut looks so bad
Vegetable man, where are you?
So I've changed my gear, and I find my knees
And I covered them up with the latest cut
And my pants and socks all point in a box
They don't make long of my nylon socks
The watch, black watch
My watch with a black face
And a big pin, a little hole
And all the lot is what I got
It's what I wear, it's what you see
It must be me, it's what I am
Vegetable man
I've been looking all over the place for a place for me
But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere
Vegetable man, vegetable man
He's the kind of person, you just gonna see him if you can
Vegetable man
Though I walk the streets with my plastic feet
With my blue velvet trousers, make me feel pink
There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
In my paisley shirt I look a jerk
And my turquoise waistcoat is quite out of sight
But oh oh my haircut looks so bad
Vegetable man, where are you?
So I've changed my gear, and I find my knees
And I covered them up with the latest cut
And my pants and socks all point in a box
They don't make long of my nylon socks
The watch, black watch
My watch with a black face
And a big pin, a little hole
And all the lot is what I got
It's what I wear, it's what you see
It must be me, it's what I am
Vegetable man
I've been looking all over the place for a place for me
But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere
Vegetable man, vegetable man
He's the kind of person, you just gonna see him if you can
Vegetable man
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Genius Annotation
One of a very few unreleased Floyd tracks from the Syd Barrett era, this was recorded at the same August 9, 1967 session that gave us another unreleased gem, “Scream Thy Last Scream”
The song came at the tail end of Barrett’s tenure with the band and, as PF biographer Nicholas Schaffner pointed out, it was “decidedly non-commercial” songs like this, as much as his drug use and erratic behavior, that brought on his departure
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- 2.Double O Bo
- 3.Remember Me
- 5.Butterfly
- 7.Arnold Layne
- 11.Paintbox
- 13.Jugband Blues
- 15.Vegetable Man
- 36.Julia Dream
- 38.Song 1
- 47.Hollywood
- 51.Embryo
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- 62.Work
- 64.Doing It
- 65.Sleeping
- 67.Labyrinth
- 68.The Beginning
- 71.The Pink Jungle
- 79.Green Is The Colour (Live BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970) (Missing Lyrics)
- 80.Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Live BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970) (Missing Lyrics)
- 82.Atom Heart Mother (Live BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970) (Missing Lyrics)
- 83.On The Highway
- 86.Aeroplane
- 87.Explosion
- 88.The Riot Scene
- 89.Looking At Map
- 92.Take Off
- 98.Crumbling Land
- 101.If
- 102.Summer ’68
- 103.Fat Old Sun
- 105.Nothing, Pt. 14
- 110.Echoes
- 116.Obscured by Clouds
- 117.When You’re In
- 118.Burning Bridges
- 121.Mudmen
- 122.Childhood’s End
- 123.Free Four
- 124.Stay
- 125.Absolutely Curtains
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August 9, 1967
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