what is pink floyds granchester meadows all about, off the album UMMAGUMMA?

Answer 1

Work it out yourself. Make your own mind up. That's what Floyd's music is all about. Think.

Answer 2

Grantchester Meadows is a song from the second half of the experimental Pink Floyd album Ummagumma, which was written by Roger Waters. The song features Waters' voice accompanied by an acoustic guitar and the sounds of different types of birds. The lyrics describe a pastoral and dream-like scene at the Grantchester meadows in Cambridgeshire, England. This is where fellow band member David Gilmour grew up. Interestingly, considering the song's idyllic setting, a fly can be heard being swatted and killed at its end.
"Grantchester Meadows" was incorporated into The Man and the Journey as "Daybreak."
The song was to feature on Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, and would have been the only song from Ummagumma to be included on that compilation.
The fly at the end of the song is apparently hit into the next song.

Answer 3

Grantchester Meadows is a real place next to the river just outside Cambridge.
I always thought that the song was a fairly simple pastoral idyll.

"Icy wind of night be gone this is not your domain"
In the sky a bird was heard to cry.
Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds
Belie the deathly silence that lay all around.

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dog fox
Gone to ground.
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes through the endless summer
Making for the sea.

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.
All around me golden sun flakes settle on the ground.
Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room.

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox
Gone to ground.
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees.

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.
All around me golden sun flakes covering the ground.
Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room.

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox
Gone to ground.
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees.