“Vegetable Man” is a song written by Syd Barrett and subsequently recorded by him in 1967. The song was originally going to be a track on A Saucerful Of Secrets, the 2nd album by Pink Floyd (And the first album released without Syd in the band, him having left in April 1968, a few months before the...
In yellow shoes I get the blues
Though I walk the streets with my plastic feet
With my blue velvet trousers, make me feel pink
There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
In my paisley shirt I look a jerk
And my turquoise waistcoat is quite out of sight
But oh oh my haircut looks so fair
Vegetable man where are you?
So I've changed my gear, and I find my knees
And I covered them up with the latest cut
And my pants and socks all point in a box
They don't make long of my nylon socks
The watch, black watch
My watch with a black face
And a big pin, a little hole
And all the lot is what I got
It's what I wear, it's what you see
It must be me, it's what I am
Vegetable man
I've been looking all over the place for a place for me
But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere
Vegetable man, vegetable man
He's the kind of person, you just gonna see him if you can
Vegetable man
Vegetable Man was written by Syd Barrett.
Vegetable Man was produced by Norman Smith.
Syd Barrett released Vegetable Man on Fri Nov 11 2016.