“Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk” is the sixth track on Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
This track features strange, attention-grabbing, morbid lyrics unlike anything else on the album. This alongside the introduction makes for one of Pink Floyd’s most insane tracks in th...
[Verse 1]
Doctor Doctor, I’m in bed
Doctor Doctor, aching head
Doctor Doctor, gold is lead
Doctor Doctor, choke on bread
Doctor Doctor, underfed
Doctor Doctor, gold is lead
Doctor Doctor, Jesus bled
Doctor Doctor, pain is red
Doctor Doctor, dark doom
Gruel ghoul, greasy spoon
Used spoon, June bloom
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Music seems to help the pain
Seems to motivate the brain
Doctor kindly tell your wife
That I’m alive
Flowers thrive
Realise
Realise
Realise
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk was written by Roger Waters.
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk was produced by Norman Smith.
Pink Floyd released Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk on Sat Aug 05 1967.