Who is the Emily being observed at play by the song’s narrator? It could be Emily Tacita Young, a famous sculptor in the making, who in 1966 never missed an evening at the London Free School or the UFO Club. It is also possible that this person who "tries but misunderstands", who is "often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams" and who cries "soon after dark" was a product of Syd Barrett’s fertile imagination — a young woman who appeared to him among the trees during an acid trip. Jenny Spires, a former girlfriend, has revealed that Emily was Syd’s favorite first name, the name he would choose if he had a daughter one day. Finally, for Roger Waters, “Emily could be anyone. She’s just a hung-up chick, that’s all.” Although ignorant of Emily’s identity, Waters claims to “know which woods Syd’s talking about in ‘See Emily Play.’ We all used to go to these woods as kids. It’s a very specific area — one specific wood on the road to the Gog Magog Hills (southwest of Cambridge).”
Who is the Emily being observed at play by the song’s narrator? It could be Emily Tacita Young, a famous sculptor in the making, who in 1966 never missed an evening at the London Free School or the UFO Club. It is also possible that this person who "tries but misunderstands", who is "often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams" and who cries "soon after dark" was a product of Syd Barrett’s fertile imagination — a young woman who appeared to him among the trees during an acid trip. Jenny Spires, a former girlfriend, has revealed that Emily was Syd’s favorite first name, the name he would choose if he had a daughter one day. Finally, for Roger Waters, “Emily could be anyone. She’s just a hung-up chick, that’s all.” Although ignorant of Emily’s identity, Waters claims to “know which woods Syd’s talking about in ‘See Emily Play.’ We all used to go to these woods as kids. It’s a very specific area — one specific wood on the road to the Gog Magog Hills (southwest of Cambridge).”
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