Here I Go (Syd Barrett song)

"Here I Go"
Song by Syd Barrett
from the album The Madcap Laughs
Released3 January 1970
Recorded17 April 1969
GenreMusic hall[1]
Length3:11
Label
Songwriter(s)Syd Barrett
Producer(s)Malcolm Jones
The Madcap Laughs track listing
13 tracks
Side one
  1. "Terrapin"
  2. "No Good Trying"
  3. "Love You"
  4. "No Man's Land"
  5. "Dark Globe"
  6. "Here I Go"
Side two
  2. "Octopus"
  3. "Golden Hair"
  4. "Long Gone"
  5. "She Took a Long Cold Look"
  6. "Feel"
  7. "If It's In You"
  8. "Late Night"
An Introduction to Syd Barrett track listing
18 tracks
  1. "Arnold Layne"
  2. "See Emily Play"
  3. "Apples and Oranges"
  4. "Matilda Mother"
  5. "Chapter 24"
  6. "Bike"
  7. "Terrapin"
  8. "Love You"
  9. "Dark Globe"
  10. "Here I Go"
  11. "Octopus"
  12. "She Took a Long Cool Look"
  13. "If It's In You"
  14. "Baby Lemonade"
  15. "Dominoes"
  16. "Gigolo Aunt"
  17. "Effervescing Elephant"
  18. "Bob Dylan Blues"

"Here I Go" is a song by former singer/songwriter of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett and is the sixth track on his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs.

The song tells the story in which the narrator's girlfriend leaves him because "a big band is far better" than himself. He attempts to win her back by writing her a song, but when he goes to her house to show it to her, he instead finds himself falling in love with her sister.

  1. ^ "Syd Barrett: Behind the Pink Floyd Co-Founder's Madcap Genius".