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Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
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“Wish You Were Here” is the title track on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album. The song’s lyrics encompass writer Roger Waters‘ feelings of alienation from other people, drawing particular
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Hey You
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Immediately after finishing his wall, Pink begins to wonder (too little, too late) whether he’s made the right decision in completely isolating himself from the world.
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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 – Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
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“Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2” is Pink Floyd’s only number one hit in both the US and the UK, and was a chart-topper in at least six other countries overseas in the spring of
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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 – Brain Damage
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“Brain Damage” is the ninth track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. It was sung by Roger Waters. David Gilmour took over as
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Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5
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“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” was written about Syd Barrett (his nickname SYD is directly referenced in the title’s initials), one of the original band members. Barrett departed the
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Pink Floyd – Bike
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This song is about a boy who tries to attract a special female that he finds fits in with his “world”. To do this, he shows her transportation devices, clothing, pets, foods, and “
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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 – 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 Trial
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Backed by a lush orchestral score (to the point producer Bob Ezrin gets a co-writing credit), Roger Waters incorporates various characters of Pink’s life as The Wall’s protagonist
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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 – You’ve Got to be Crazy (Live at Wembley, 17th November 1974)
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An early version of the song “Dogs” from the 1977 album Animals, this version was recorded in 1974 at the Wembley Arena. It is notably different from the album version, the lyrics
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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 – Wish You Were Here (alternate version)
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[Spoken Intro: Nick Mason] / Could I have eggs, sausage, chips & beans and a tea? / [Acoustic Guitar Intro] / [Verse 1: David Gilmour] / So, so you think you can tell / Heaven from
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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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Brit Floyd – Wish You Were Here [Live In Liverpool 2011]
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[Intro] / — And disciplinary remains mercifully / Yes and um, I’m with you Derek, this star nonsense / Yes, yes / Now which is it? / I am sure of it / [Verse 1] / So, so you think
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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 – Paranoid Eyes
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The song, written and sung by Roger waters (like most tracks on the Final Cut), Tells how war veterans struggle to live in an ordinary society following the potential trauma that
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Lionel Cohen – Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
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"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
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Pink Floyd – What Do You Want From Me
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[Verse 1: David Gilmour, Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine & Durga McBroom] / As you look around this room tonight / Settle in your seat and dim the lights / Do you want my blood? Do you
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Pink Floyd – Mother
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This track is about the character Pink’s relationship with his mother: him looking to her for guidance and advice, her responding by helping him to build the metaphorical wall that
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Project Vela – Hey You (Pink Floyd Cover)
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[Verse 1] / Hey you / Out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old / Can you feel me? / Hey you / Standing in the aisles with itchy feet and fading smiles / Can you feel me
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Pink Floyd – Breathe (In the Air)
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As the continuation to the album’s opening track “Speak to Me,” which seamlessly segues into “Breathe,” it is the first time we hear any lyrics.
This track is loosely based off
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Pink Floyd – Your Possible Pasts
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The song, like many others on The Final Cut, is a rewritten version of a song rejected for The Wall, originally to be used in Spare Bricks (an early version of The Final Cut that
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Pink Floyd – In the Flesh?
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“In the Flesh?” introduces the story of Pink, a rock star. It begins with the opening of a rock concert. The lyrics inform us that despite his outward appearances, things are much
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Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall
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[Part 1] / [Verse] / Daddy's flown across the ocean / Leaving just a memory / A snapshot in the family album / Daddy, what else did you leave for me? / Daddy, what'd ya leave
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Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here [Live at Knebworth 1990]
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[Acoustic Guitar Intro] / [Verse] / 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
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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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Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (Live at Nassau Coliseum 1988)
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[Instrumental intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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Pink Floyd – One of the Few
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This song describes the actions of a survivor of World War Two, as part of the Anti-War concept.
It also introduces a musical motif (the melody that Waters sings) that would come
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Genius Nederlandse Vertalingen – Pink Floyd - When You're In (Nederlandse Vertaling)
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[Songtekst van "When You're In" (Vertaling)] / [Instrumentaal]
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Pink Floyd – Lucifer Sam
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“Lucifer Sam” is the second track on Pink Floyd’s 1967 debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
Written by Syd Barrett about “Lucifer Sam”, one of his many Siamese cats (which
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Neck Deep – Wish You Were Here
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“Wish You Were Here,” written by bassist Fil Thorpe-Evans and vocalist Ben Barlow, is a heartfelt, acoustic song describing their feelings following the passing of loved ones, both
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Pink Floyd – Poles Apart
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“Poles Apart” addresses the major two changes in leadership during Pink Floyd’s duration, and their impact from Gilmour’s point of view.
The first verse refers to Syd Barrett’s
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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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