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Syd Barrett (1971) Photographer: Barrie Wentzell

The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.

You think Astronomy Domine is about space, but it's actually about Syd's experience with the underground psychedelic music scene and his anxieties around it. Jugband Blues is about his drug abuse, ego death from LSD, and depression, in the most obscure way possible.

He constantly breaks rhyme schemes and never really says what he wants to get across. Moreso using analogies and poetic imagery to convey his message. The "pussy willow that smiled on this leaf" is the Pink Floyd members relationship with Syd Barrett. And the first verse of Opel is one of my personal favorite verses in all of music. Using the concept of an "ebony totem in ebony sand" as analogy for a future lover amongst all everyday people is just beautiful.

And then he just writes a song about a Gnome, which could be about him before and after LSD use, or a figure he saw while on the influence of DMT (though I don't think it's ever been confirmed he ever did DMT). But it's most likely a whismy song about a Gnome with no deeper meaning.

The Scarecrow is just a song about a scarecrow. Arnold Layne is a crossdresser. Here I Go is just him banging his ex's sister.