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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 – 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 – 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 – Wish You Were Here Samples
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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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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 – Wish You Were Here Samples
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Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Translations Versions
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Incubus – Wish You Were Here
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[Verse 1] / I dig my toes into the sand / The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket / I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless / And in
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Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Live Versions
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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 – 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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Avril Lavigne – Wish You Were Here
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“Wish You Were Here” is a song by Canadian recording artist Avril Lavigne from her fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby.
The song was released on via RCA Records as the third and
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Avenged Sevenfold – Wish You Were Here
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A Pink Floyd cover, its the final track of their evolving track list. On the original album, this song was describing the loss of Syd Barret to drugs. In this song they describe
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Limp Bizkit (Ft. John Rzeznik) – Wish You Were Here
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[Verse 1: Fred Durst & John Rzeznik] / 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
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Of Verona – 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
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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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Sparklehorse (Ft. Thom Yorke) – Wish You Were Here
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Sparklehorse’s version of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” was first released in 1997 on Come Again, a compilation, part of EMI’s 100th anniversary Essential series, in which EMI
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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, 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 – 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 – Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9
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The closing track from Pink Floyd’s 9th studio album, Wish You Were Here and a continuation of the first track on the album.
Much like the album’s opener, the lyrics continue to
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Aslan – 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
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Gregorian – Wish You Were Here
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So, so you think you can tell / Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pale? / Can you tell a green field / From a cold steel rail? / A smile from a veil? / Do you think you can tell
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Birds on a Wire – Wish You Were Here
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[Verse 1] / So you think / 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? / [
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Doom Side of the Moon – Wish You Were Here
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[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 veil / Do you think you
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