So I’m going through all these old Pink Floyd tunes and come up with this psychedelic nugget from their first post-Syd Barrett release in 1968. As y’all know, I’ve always been intrigued by imaginative lyrics, and Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright’s “See Saw” certainly meets that!

Marigolds are very much in love, but he doesn’t mind
Picking up his sister, he makes his way into the seas or land
All the way she smiles
She goes up while he goes down, down

Sits on a stick in the river
Laughter in his sleep
Sister’s throwing stones, hoping for a hit
He doesn’t know so then
She goes up while he goes down, down

Another time, another day
A brother’s way to leave
Another time, another day

She’ll be selling plastic flowers on a Sunday afternoon
Picking up weeds, she hasn’t got the time to care
All can see he’s not there
She grows up for another man, and he’s down

Another time, another day
A brother’s way to leave
Another time, another day
Another time, another day
A brother’s way to leave

I went out on the internet to see how others might have interpreted the lyrics, but the furthest I’ve gotten is that it portrays a “strangely troubled brother sister relationship”. I know Wright considered it one of the worst songs he’d ever conceived, but count me as one who has always been intrigued by this haunting, dreamy period piece by Pink Floyd.