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Artist: The Pink Floyd
Suggested Track: Wish You Were Here

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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?

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
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
And how we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here
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Pink Floyd
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Pink Floyd lyrics - 155 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Wish You Were Here", "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)", "Time".
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Pink Floyd – Time
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
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
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
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
“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
Pink Floyd – Sorrow
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
Pink Floyd – Money
“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
Pink Floyd – Candy and a Currant Bun
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
Pink Floyd – Paintbox
[Verse 1] / Last night I had too much to drink / Sitting in a club with so many fools / Playing to rules / Trying to impress but feeling rather empty / I had another drink (Drink
Pink Floyd – Apples and Oranges
Pink Floyd came to America for their first tour of the country in October, 1967. As this was their latest single, it was the song they performed on their promotional TV show
Pink Floyd – Pigs (Three Different Ones)
“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
Ryan Beatty – Pink Floyd
[Verse 1] / Making the money to get by / Smoking the Pink Floyd every night / And I'm feeling sad 'cause everyday I pay the price / Taking a walk to shake it off / I'm trying to
Pink Floyd – The Hero's Return
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
Pink Floyd – Dogs
“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
Pink Floyd – The Gold It’s In The...
“The Gold It’s In The…” is the fourth track from Pink Floyd’s 1972 album Obscured By Clouds, which acts the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder’s film La Vallée. In the film, it can be
Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg
The song is about a shell-shocked soldier who lost his leg in World War II. He is described as having a medal of “orange and red and blue”, which may be a reference to the Burma
Pink Floyd – Brain Damage
“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
Pink Floyd – Breathe (In the Air)
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
Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
“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
Pink Floyd – Eclipse
“Eclipse” is the tenth and final track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. It is by Roger Waters, with harmonies by David
Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne
The Floyd’s 1967 debut single, this at-the-time controversial tale of transvestism and kleptomania reached #20 on the UK singles chart It was recorded on January 27th, 1967, and
Pink Floyd – Goodbye Blue Sky
The song is a memory from Pink’s childhood, during the bombings of World War II. His child’s mind couldn’t understand why he had to stay indoors when the sun was out, with no real
Pink Floyd – The Scarecrow
“The Scarecrow” is a brief song that showcases Syd’s childlike songwriting. The song itself is very simple; it describes a scarecrow that doesn’t care. It’s very similar to The
Pink Floyd – It Would Be So Nice
[Chorus] / It would be so nice / It would be so nice / It would be so nice / To meet, sometime / [Verse 1] / Everybody wakes, and in the morning / Hot tea and can't stop yawning
Pink Floyd – Julia Dream
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
Pink Floyd – The Nile Song
“The Nile Song” is the second song from Pink Floyd’s 1969 album, Soundtrack from the Film More. Released as a single in 1969 (only in France, Japan and New Zealand), it was written
JADY'S BIRTHDAY – PINK FLOYD
(Chorus) / Rockstar pour it in a pop roll me up a wrap / Wockhardt I’m codeine dreaming i just took me a nap / Ball hard I just left BoA with like 20 racks / Basquiat I’m painting
Pink Floyd – Paranoid Eyes
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
Pink Floyd – Flaming
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 "Wish You Were Here": And disciplinary remains mercifully Yes and um, I'm with you Derek, this star nonsense Yes, yes, now...