Wednesday, March 18, 2015
TOP 10 FAVOURITE LYRICS FROM PINK FLOYD
Not being with Floyd for a day or two makes me feel sick.(I doubt if I have ever let that happen since I came in touch with the band.) The song I am going to come up with a video and lyrics next is Echoes (just within a day or two).I think Echoes is the most popular song from Meddle.And the mystic approach is really impressive.Coming to todays post,I am going to put up ten of my most favourite lyrics from Pink Floyd,excluding factors such as melody and instrumentals or the vocals.What I am just going to put up is the lyrics I love.The chronology maintained is not meant to potentially rate the songs.
6.A Pillow of Winds
I am a huge fan of Roger Waters when it comes to lyrics and though I like the Classic Rock lyrics best,there are certain exceptions like those from The Final Cut.The totally new and genuine concept of drama or story or the narration of an incident or collection of emotions based on an emotion within a song is something you will never be able to find anywhere else.The pleasure of even speaking about these lyrics intrigues me!
TOP 10 FAVOURITE LYRICS FROM PINK FLOYD
1.Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
Were just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
2.Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Remember when you were young,
You shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now theres a look in your eyes,
Like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire
Of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon,
You cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night,
And exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome
With random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and Ill be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And well bask in the shadow of yesterdays triumph,
sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine
3.Us And Them
And after all were only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows its noz what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end its only round and round.
Havent you heard its a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
Theres room for you inside.
"I mean, theyre not gunna kill ya, so if you give em a quick short,
sharp, shock, they wont do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off
lightly, cos I wouldve given him a thrashing - I only hit him once!
It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners
dont cost nothing do they, eh?"
Down and out
It cant be helped but theres a lot of it about.
With, without.
And wholl deny its what the fightings all about?
Out of the way, its a busy day
Ive got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.
4.Time
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but its sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell
5.Echoes
Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
An echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine.
And no one called us to the land
And no one knows the wheres or whys.
Something stirs and something tries
Starts to climb toward the light.
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me.
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can.
And no one called us to the land
And no one crosses there alive.
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun....
Almost everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes,
Inviting and inciting me
To rise.
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.
And no one sings me lullabyes
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky....
A cloud of eiderdown
Draws around me
Softening a sound.
Sleepy time, and I lie,
With my love by my side,
And shes breathing low.
And the candle dies.
When night comes down
You lock the door.
The book falls to the floor.
As darkness falls
The waves roll by,
The seasons change
The wind is wry.
Now wakes the hour
Now sleeps the swan
Behold the dream
The dream is gone.
Green fields are calling
Its falling, in a golden door.
And deep beneath the ground,
The early morning sounds
And I go down.
Sleepy time, and I lie,
With my love by my side,
And shes breathing low.
And I rise, like a bird,
In the haze, when the first rays
Touch the sky.
And the night wings die.
7.The Heros Return
Jesus, Jesus, whats it all about?
Trying to clout these little ingrates into shape.
When I was their age all the lights went out.
There was no time to whine or mope about.
And even now part of me flies over
Dresden at angels one five.
Though theyll never fathom it behind my
Sarcasm desperate memories lie.
Sweetheart sweetheart are you fast asleep? Good.
Cause thats the only time that I can really speak to you.
And there is something that Ive locked away
A memory that is too painful
To withstand the light of day.
When we came back from the war the banners and
Flags hung on everyones door.
We danced and we sang in the street and
The church bells rang.
But burning in my heart
My memory smolders on
Of the gunners dying words on the intercom.
8.The Final Cut
Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time
And far from flying high in clear blue skies
Im spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.
If you negotiate the minefield in the drive
And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
And if you make it past the shotgun to my hall,
Dial the combination, open the priesthole
And if Im in Ill tell you whats behind the wall.
Theres a kid who had a big hallucination
Making love to girls in magazines.
He wonders if youre sleeping with your new found faith.
Could anybody love him
Or is it just a crazy dream?
And if I show you my dark side
Will you still hold me tonight?
And if I open my heart to you
And show you my weak side
What would you do?
Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone?
Would you take the children away
And leave me alone?
And smile in reassurance
As you whisper down the phone?
Would you send me packing?
Or would you take me home?
Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings,
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.
I held the blade in trembling hands
Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut.
"Hello? Listen, I think Ive got it. Okay, listen its a HaHa!"
9.Yet Another Movie
One sound, one single sound
One kiss, one single kiss
A face outside the window pane
However did it come to this?
A man who ran, a child who cried
A girl who heard, a voice that lied
The sun that burned a fiery red
The vision of an empty bed
The use of force, he was so tough
Shell soon submit, shes had enough
The march of fate, the broken will
Someone is lying very still
He has laughed and he has cried
He has fought and he has died
Hes just the same as all the rest
Hes not the worst, hes not the best
And still this ceaseless murmuring
The babbling that I brook
The seas of faces, eyes upraised
The empty screen, the vacant look
A man in black on a snow white horse
A pointless life has run its course
The red rimmed eyes, the tears still run
As he fades into the setting sun
10.The Gunners Dream
Floating down through the clouds
Memories come rushing up to meet me now.
In the space between the heavens
and in the corner of some foreign field
I had a dream.
I had a dream.
Good-bye Max.
Good-bye Ma.
After the service when youre walking slowly to the car
And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air
You hear the tolling bell
And touch the silk in your lapel
And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band
You take her frail hand
And hold on to the dream.
A place to stay
"Oi! A real one ..."
Enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And whats more no-one ever disappears
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
You can relax on both sides of the tracks
And maniacs dont blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no-one kills the children anymore.
And no one kills the children anymore.
Night after night
Going round and round my brain
His dream is driving me insane.
In the corner of some foreign field
The gunner sleeps tonight.
Whats done is done.
We cannot just write off his final scene.
Take heed of his dream.
Take heed.
Then again,I am not a very huge fan of lyrics coming to David Gilmour if you are speaking about lyrics except in few cases.His instrumentals and vocals are beyond explanation,beyond words and just fantastic but I dont like the inconsistency and lack of psychedelia in his lyrics in many cases.Yet Another Movie is an exception to this fact.(This song was written by Gilmour and Patrick Leonard.)The melody (not relative in this post) totally destroyed the beautifully written piece.But the lyrics read individually explains that it indeed is very finely written and the last part leaves you totally blank and hollow,which means it is able to bring out the emotions and that is enough achievement for the lyrics and the writers.
The opinions might just vary,though.And there are yet a lot of other lyrics I love from Pink Floyd.But these are the songs that came to mind as soon as I started writing the post.I did not even think before that I was going to post this and I guess these are my favourite lyrics,after all.I hope the post is not something very unexpected and you all are going to enjoy reading this.Thank You for reading the blog.
Disclaimer - The photograph of the album does not belong to me.The words are inserted by The Perspectives.
Lyrics Credit : www.azlyrics.com/www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com
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