Long Gone

Long Gone
(Barrett)

RECORDED 26 JULY 1969 (Take 1)
PRODUCED BY DAVE GILMOUR AND ROGER WATERS

2001 Syd Barrett Compilation 'Wouldn't You miss Me?'
(take 1 [remake], RS2)
Produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters
Basic track recorded 26th July 1969
Vocals and organ overdibbed 26th July 1969
Mixed 5th August 1969
[RS = remix stereo, the number indicating which original mix was finally used.
This is EMI terminology; nothing has been remixed for this CD.
Any sonic differences you may detect come courtesy of original engineer Peter Mew's state-of-the-art remastering.)
Recording details provided by David Parker, author of "Random Precision
- Recording The Music Of Syd Barrett 1965-1974" (Cherry Red Books).

Lyrics

She was long gone, long, long gone
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
the larger her hand 'till no one understands
why for so long she'd been gone.

And I stood very still by the window sill
and I wondered for those I love still
I cried in my mind where I stand behind
the beauty of love's in her eyes...

She was long gone, long, long gone
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
the larger her hand 'till no one understands
why for so long she'd been gone.

And I borrowed the page
from a leopard's cage
and I prowled in the evening sun's glaze
her head lifted high to the light in the sky
the opening dawn on her face...

She was long gone long, long gone
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
the larger her hand 'till no one understands
why for so long she'd been gone.

And I stood very still by the window sill
and I wondered for those I love still
I cried in my mind where I stand behind
the beauty of love's in her eyes...

She was long gone, long, long gone
she was gone, gone, the bigger they come
the larger her hand 'till no one understands
why for so long she'd been gone.

She was long gone long, long gone.