 Genius Lyrics
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Pink Floyd – Time
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This is the only track on the album that credits all 4 members of the band. It’s about how time can slip by, but many people do not realize it until it is too late. Roger Waters
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Pink Floyd – Us and Them
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In the context of the Dark Side of the Moon album, as a catalog of the pressures on life, this song is about the senselessness of war. It began as a piano piece Rick Wright came up
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Pink Floyd – Pigs (Three Different Ones)
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“Pigs (Three Different Ones)” is the second part of the three-song cycle on Animals (bookended by “Pigs On The Wing” parts one and two). Having already introduced the “dogs”, who
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Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine
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“Welcome to the Machine” is the 2nd track on Pink Floyd’s 9th studio album, Wish You Were Here.
The song could be interpreted in two main ways:
Pink Floyd’s own scathing view of
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Pink Floyd – Outside the Wall
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The Moral of the Story: Though there will almost always be personal and social barriers erected out of fear, oppression, pain, and isolation, it’s the job of every socially
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Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
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Pink’s emotional journey into the past is both interrupted and heightened when his management breaks into the hotel room and has a doctor inject him with a drug that will snap him
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Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly
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The song itself has two interpretations: a celebration of flight and as as a metaphor for the departure of Roger Waters from Pink Floyd. “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” is the first
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Pink Floyd – High Hopes
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This song is about nostalgia, regret, and the end of things, as time runs its course. It’s the final song of Pink Floyd’s penultimate album.
It stood for 20 years as the band’s
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Pink Floyd (Ft. Roy Harper) – Have a Cigar
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The third track of Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were Here. Written by bassist and singer Roger Waters, “Have a Cigar” is the band’s satirical assault on greasy music industry A
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Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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[Part 1 (0:00-3:53): Instrumental] / [Part 2 (3:53-6:26): Instrumental] / [Part 3 (6:26-8:40): Instrumental] / [Part 4 (8:40-11:08)] / [Verse 1: Roger Waters] / Remember when you
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Pink Floyd – The Gunner’s Dream
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The song tells the story of a gunner who has parachuted out of his plane. And as he floats down to the ground, memories of his life come up to meet him. But then he has a dream
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Pink Floyd – Astronomy Dominé
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This song was written and composed by Pink Floyd’s original vocalist/guitarist Syd Barrett. It is the first track on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Its working
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Pink Floyd – The Thin Ice
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This song is a precursor for the rest of the album. if you imagine that others are the ice you are skating on, the more good, honest friends you have, and the more support you have
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Pink Floyd – Run Like Hell
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Pink threatens physical violence to anyone who steps out of his authoritarian line as he continues his concert (or at least imagined concert) in his dictator persona.
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Pink Floyd – Flaming
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The fourth track on The Piper At The Gates of Dawn, “Flaming” continues Syd Barrett’s drug-induced lyricism featuring prominent imagery of the sky and clouds – almost if someone is
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Pink Floyd – Two Suns in the Sunset
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As the closing track for the last Pink Floyd album with Roger Waters, The Final Cut, “Two Suns in the Sunset” describes a world stricken by nuclear holocaust, a topic mentioned in
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Pink Floyd – Money
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“Money” is a track from English progressive rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Written by bassist Roger Waters, it opened side two of the original vinyl
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Pink Floyd – The Hero's Return
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The song is mainly about a soldiers return home and how he struggles to understand why he fought and what he must do to cope with the struggle of knowing that not all of his
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Pink Floyd – Sorrow
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Written and composed by the Pink Floyd’s singer and guitarist David Gilmour, Sorrow is an energetic and epic song.
Gilmour said:
Sorrow was a poem I’d written as a lyric before I
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Pink Floyd – One of My Turns
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After calling home and discovering that his wife is having an affair, Pink invites a groupie back to his hotel room before emotionally erupting, destroying the room and chasing the
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Pink Floyd – Dogs
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“Dogs”, originally entitled “You’ve Gotta Be Crazy,” began as a sprawling jam that was turned into a multi-part suite about the sadness that occurs from trying to find your place
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Pink Floyd – Candy and a Currant Bun
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The catchy b-side to the group’s first single, this 1967 tune was originally called “Let’s Roll Another One” and was hastily re-written due to record company pressure
It was
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Pink Floyd – Young Lust
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Pink becomes a rock star and throws himself recklessly into the hedonism of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. This song is also a pastiche-style parody of arena rock that was very
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Pink Floyd – Fearless
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“Fearless” is the third track on Pink Floyd’s sixth studio album Meddle, and was the b-side to “One of These Days”.
This A-side/B-side pairing is interesting, as “One Of These
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Pink Floyd – Sheep
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Acting as Pink Floyd’s message to their fans, “Sheep,” initially entitled “Raving and Drooling,” continues the theme developed in the album. Lyrically, “Sheep” describes a
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Pink Floyd – Let There Be More Light
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The first song on A Saucerful of Secrets, “Let There Be More Light” was written by Roger Waters and features vocals from Waters, David Gilmour, and Richard Wright. Like “Set the
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Pink Floyd – Echoes
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This is considered the first big Pink Floyd song in their prog rock era, and is considered the preview to The Dark Side of the Moon. The song is about humans and how amazing is the
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Pink Floyd (Ft. Stephen Hawking) – Keep Talking
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The song was sung by David Gilmour and features samples of Stephen Hawking’s electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement. Gilmour chose to use the speech after
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Pink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives
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With bitter satisfaction, Pink recounts how the teachers of his childhood would stop at nothing to humiliate their students and crush the childrens' individuality, but would then
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Pink Floyd – Julia Dream
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Julia Dream was the B-side to the single It Would Be So Nice, and was the first Pink Floyd song to be sung by David Gilmour.
Its first release as said B-side was a Monaural mix
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Pink Floyd – Summer '68
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Track #3 on Pink Floyd’s 1970 album Atom Heart Mother. This song was written, composed and sung by Richard Wright. This song could be about dwelling on one-night-stands with girls
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Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away
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This is about how people turn away from the “weak and the weary”, despite the fact that suffering is such a big problem in the world.
David Gilmour (Only Music, December 1987): “‘
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Pink Floyd – Lost for Words
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This song is widely believed to be the band’s (and particularly David Gilmour’s) final parting shot at former frontman Roger Waters, who left the band in 1985 after a falling-out
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Pink Floyd – The Fletcher Memorial Home
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Released in 1983 during the Thatcher-Reagan era, the song, as the whole album, was a jab at leaders playing power politics during the climax of the cold war.
Dissing Thatcher
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