Ummagumma Lyrics - Careful With That Axe, Eugene Lyrics

[justinpinkfloyd99]

Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) 8:50

(Instrumental)

[AmusedToDeath]

Wait wait wait, it's not an instrumental...if recall it goes something like this;

"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR' "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

There's also some other stuff in there.

[AmusedToDeath]

Down, down. Down, down. The star is screaming.
Beneath the lies. Lie, lie. Tschay, tschay, tschay.
[sound of Waters blowing into the microphone]
[light screaming from Waters]
Careful, careful, careful with that axe, Eugene.
[very loud and prolonged scream]
[another very loud and prolonged scream]
[Waters blowing into the microphone]
[light screaming from Waters]
The stars are screaming loud.
Tsch.
Tsch.
Tsch.
[low groaning sound from Waters]

[oldpink]

Nice transcription of the Pompeii performance of Axe.

[justinpinkfloyd99]

The lyrics refur to studio. I would not consider it as a song with lyrics.

[CorporalClegg-Box]

Well, the lyrics are more like a poem, aren't they?
No need to argue.

[SiMuLaCrUm]

Usually it was just a whispered rant. No words in there at all. Unless you have a good imaginatio

[oldpink]

Actually, the Pompeii performance does have intelligible words from Roger, precisely as ATD has transcribed them here.
Yes, it is considered an instrumental, but Roger liked to change it up quite a bit each time they performed it.
Sometimes he even threw in a Pict rant, as he did at Poitiers, France and Boeblingen, Germany.
If you really want to get your mind blown, take a listen to the stunning 25 minute rendition of "A Saucerful of Secrets" found on the 03APR71, Rotterdam, Holland ROIO best represented by "The Band Who At Asteroids for Breakfast."
Pict rant, dizzying dive bomber droning from Dave during "Storm Signal," and some of the most insane noise during "Syncopated Pandemonium."

[Meddleman]

You list this as instrumental only what about the end part that says "one of these days I am going to cut you into little pieces" ?

[justinpinkfloyd99]

That line is not in this song. Its in "One Of These Days"