Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

According to Roger Waters, this early Pink Floyd song was the first of his compositions that he was proud of. Bar the title line, all the lyrics were pinched from a book of Chinese poetry that Roger Waters owned.

At his two solo concerts at Wembley Arena in June 2002, Roger Waters performed this with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. It was the first time they'd performed publicly together in over twenty years, during which time they'd managed to go over a decade without speaking, despite being the best of friends for most of their lives.

The title was inaccurately described in Nicholas Schaffner's book A Saucerful Of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey as being taken from William S. Burroughs, but Burroughs wrote no such line in any book. It is actually from a book by Michael Moorcock entitled Fireclown, also known as "The Winds of Limbo."