Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here lyrics

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Pink Floyd

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?

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

We're 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

change:
This may be interpreted in two ways: 1. Change, becoming different. 2. loose change, coins of small denomination.

I personally prefer the second interpretation.

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Submitted by

Mauler on 2010-04-01

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Subtitles created by

Lithium on Sat, 21/12/2024 - 20:42

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Writer(s): George Roger Waters
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Comments

Miley_Lovato

Sat, 17/12/2011 - 17:31

album: "Wish You Were Here" (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VhGtRQxloQ

andy5421

Sat, 24/05/2025 - 19:55

Story behind the song and the final meeting of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters:
https://youtu.be/l3qWf0M4RRI?si=InQnYNW392BMruSH

Interpres

Sun, 25/05/2025 - 18:54

* A smile from a veil? - Veil also means to hide, to cover, people often cover true feelings with a smile like a veil.

*Fish Bowl - A round aquarium "ball" a fish can swim through it all its life without being aware that it is locked.

*A walk on part in the war, For a lead role in a cage? -
Have you exchanged your small part in a good cause for a leading role in a metaphorical cage of life.