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Pink Floyd – Nightmare (Cymbaline) (1969) | Track profile | Dork

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1969 Dramatis/ation
Nightmare (Cymbaline)

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Nightmare (Cymbaline)

Release date: 14th April 1969

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"Nightmare (Cymbaline)" is a track by Pink Floyd, from the album 1969 Dramatis/ation, released 14th April 1969. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Nightmare (Cymbaline)

[Verse 1]

The path you tread is narrow

And the drop is shear and very high

The ravens all are watching

From a vantage point nearby

Apprehension creeping

Like a tube-train up your spine

Will the tightrope reach the end

Will the final couplet rhyme

[Chorus]

And it’s high time

Cymbaline

It’s high time

Cymbaline

Please wake me

[Verse 2]

A butterfly with broken wings

Is falling by your side

The ravens all are closing in

And there’s nowhere you can hide

Your manager and agent

Are both busy on the phone

Selling coloured photographs

To magazines back home

[Chorus]

And it’s high time

Cymbaline

It’s high time

Cymbaline

Please wake me

[Verse 3]

The lines converging where you stand

They must have moved the picture plane

The leaves are heavy around your feet

You hear the thunder of the train

And suddenly it strikes you

That they’re moving into range

Doctor Strange is always changing size

[Chorus]

And it’s high time

Cymbaline

It’s high time

Cymbaline

Please wake me

And it’s high time

Cymbaline

It’s high time

Cymbaline

Please wake me

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From 1969 Dramatis/ation

1969

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1969 Dramatis/ation

Release year

1969

—Doing It
—Cymbaline (Live BBC Radio Session, 12 May 1969)
—Footsteps / Doors
—Hollywood
—Interstellar Overdrive (Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9 August 1969)
—Labyrinth
—Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9th August 1969)
—The End of The Beginning
—Theme from Film "More"
—The Narrow Way: Part 3
—Sleeping
—Green is the Colour (Live BBC Radio Session, 12 May 1969)
—Seabirds (Instrumental)
—A Saucerful of Secrets (Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9th August 1969)
—Grantchester Meadows (Live BBC Radio Session, 12 May 1969)
—Afternoon (Biding My Time)
—Behold the Temple of Light
—The Beginning
—The Labyrinths of Auximines
—Daybreak (Grantchester Meadows)
—Nightmare (Cymbaline)
—Beset By Creatures of The Deep
—The Pink Jungle
—The Narrow Way (Live BBC Radio Session, 12 May 1969)

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