This day in music history.

August 5, 1967, The "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" LP is released. It is the only Pink Floyd album to feature singer, songwriter, guitarist and founder Syd Barret. The lyrics are about scarecrows, gnomes, mice and bicycles. The album is now thought of as one of the great psychedelic works of the 60s.
Piper reached #6 on the UK charts. The albums title comes from the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahames The Wind And The Willows where Water Rat and Mole, while searching for a lost animal, have a religious experience. ("This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me," whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. "Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!") The Piper referred to is the Greek god Pan.
Astronomy Domine by Syd Barrett from the Piper At The Gates Of Dawn LP.
Lime and limpid green, a second scene A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda And Titania, Neptune, Titan. Stars can frighten.
Blinding signs flap, Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow. Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground.