Waving My Arms In The Air / I Never Lied to You
(Barrett)

RECORDED 27 FEBRUARY 1970 (Take 1)
OVERDUBS AND NEW VOCAL TRACK ADDED 2 APRIL 1970
PRODUCED BY DAVE GILMOUR

14 Waving My Arms In The Air / 15 I Never Lied to You
RECORDED 27 FEBRUARY 1970 (Take 1)
GUITAR AND  VOCAL ONLY
PRODUCED BY DAVE GILMOUR

2001 Syd Barrett Compilation 'Wouldn't You Miss Me?'
17 Waving My Arms In The Air
(take 1 , RS11)
Produced by David Gilmour
Basic track recorded 2nd April 1970
Guitar and vocals overdubbed 3rd April 1970
Mixed 1st September 1970
[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).

18 I Never Lied to You
(take 1, RS 11)
Details as above


Lyrics
 

Waving my arms in the air
Love, my love, got no care
No care, no, no, pressing my feet to the ground
Stand up right where you stand
Call to you and what do you do
Laying back in a chair?
She's so high on the air
She's so high on the air
Half and half, half and half
All you have to do to call
Is hold her hand, stand a while
And then smile and we'll understand
Yes we do - yes, yes we do!
Oh what a girl I've got too!
Oh what a girl I've got too!
With her slinky look she held her tie to her hair
(And I) could see everywhere
No-one in the land, no-one
No-one in the land, no-one
But it rains on Saturday - cats and dogs in the way
Stormy day, hey, hey
And you shouldn't try to be
What you can't be
And you shouldn't try to be
What you can't be
Call to you and what do you do

There will be shoulders pressing in the hall
And I won't know if you're here at all
There will be wine and drinking in the yard
There won't be anybody very hard
There will be lots of things that we can do
And all and more will be for you
Everything I knew I tried with you
But everything to you was never easy
So I went ahead around my world
I saw the things you do arriving by your side
To see you looking too
But I know this. I know, I never lied to you
It's been just like you're gone
For just one day for so long!
It's been so hard to bear with you not there
But though I think of you, the things you do
When I'm with you, to be with you,
To be alone...can only think:
"Why I am here? What's meant to be?"

® 1970 Lupus Music Ltd.