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We certainly have an unspoken understanding
But a lot of things unsaid as well
We shout and argue and fight, and work it on out
The sum is greater than the parts |
Remember when you were young?
You shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond!
Now theres a look in your eyes
Like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond!
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze
Come on, you target for faraway laughter
Come on, you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon
You cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond!
Threatened by shadows at night
And exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond!
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision
Rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far
Shine on you crazy diamond
Pile on many more layers and Ill be joining you there
Shine on you crazy diamond
And well bask in the shadow of yesterdays triumph, and sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine! |
The path you tread is narrow and the drop is sheer and very high
The ravens all are watching from a vantage point nearby
Apprehension creeping like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end? Will the final couplet rhyme?
And it’s high time, Cymbaline
It’s high time, Cymbaline
Please, wake me
A butterfly with broken wings is falling by your side
The ravens all are closing in, there’s nowhere you can hide
Your manager and agent are both busy on the phone
Selling coloured photographs to magazines back home
And it’s high time, Cymbaline
It’s high time, Cymbaline
Please, wake me
The lines converging where you stand
They must have moved the picture plane
The leaves are heavy around your feet
You hear the thunder of the train
And suddenly it strikes you that they’re moving into range
And Doctor Strange is always changing size
And it’s high time! , Cymbaline
It’s high time, Cymbaline
Please, wake me
And it’s high time, Cymbaline
It’s high time, Cymbaline
Please, wake me |
The black and green scarecrow as everyone knows
Stood with a bird on his hat and straw everywhere
He didn’t care
He stood in a field where barley grows
His head did no thinking
His arms didn’t move except when the wind cut up rough
And mice ran around on the ground
He stood in a field where barley grows
The black and green scarecrow is sadder than me
But now he’s resigned to his fate
‘Cause life’s not unkind – he doesn’t mind
He stood in a field where barley grows |
Brezhnev took Afghanistan
Begin took Beirut
Galtieri took the Union Jack
And Maggie, over lunch one day
Took a cruiser with all hands
Apparently, to make him give it back |
What shall we use
To fill the empty
Spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across this sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the East?
Contract diseases?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure
Store up leisure
But never relax at all?
With our backs to the wall |
Dog Barking
I was in the kitchen
Seamus, that’s the dog, was outside
Well, I was in the kitchen
Seamus, my old hound, was outside
Well you know, the sun sinks slowly
But my old hound dog sat right down and cried |
Jesus, Jesus, what’s it all about?
Trying to clout these little ingrates into shape
When I was their age all the lights went out
There was no time to whine and mope about
And even now part of me flies over
Dresden at angels one five
Though they’ll never fathom it behind my
Sarcasm desperate memories lie
Sweetheart, sweetheart, are you fast asleep? Good
‘Cause that’s the only time that I can really speak to you
And there is something that I’ve locked away
A memory that is too painful
To withstand the light of day
When we came back from the war
The banners and flags hung on everyone’s door
We danced and we sang in the street and
The church bells rang
But the burning in my heart
The memory smolders on
Of the gunners dying words on the intercom |
Marigolds are very much in love
But he doesn’t mind
Picking up his sister, he makes his way into the see-saw land
All the way
She smiles
She goes up while he goes down, down
Sits on a stick in the river
Laughter in his sleep
Sister’s throwing stones, hoping for a hit
He doesn’t know so then
She goes up while he goes down, down
Another time
Another day
A brother’s way to leave
Another time
Another day
She’ll be selling plastic flowers
On a Sunday afternoon
Picking up weeds, she hasn’t got the time to care
All can see
He’s not there
She grows up for another man, and he’s down
Another time
Another day
A brother’s way to leave
Another time
Another day
Another time
Another day
A brother’s way to leave |
Button your lip and don’t let the shield slip
Take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask
And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
You can hide, hide, hide
Behind paranoid eyes
You put on our brave face and slip over the road for a jar
Fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar
Laughing too loud at the rest of the world
With the boys in the crowd
You can hide, hide, hide
Behind petrified eyes
You believed in their stories of fame, fortune and glory
Now you’re lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age
The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
And you hide, hide, hide
Behind brown and mild eyes
“Oi!” |
When you’re one of the few to land on your feet
What do you do to make ends meet?
Make em mad, make em sad, make em add two and two
Or make em me, or make em you, make em do what you want them to
Make em laugh, make em cry, make em lay down and die |
Aye an a bit o mackerel, fiddler, rack and fear
And I rutted down by the hade and the furrow
Well, I slipped me in a flop and hit down and I shied
And I cried, cried, cried
The fear of fallin down aft taken, never back to rise
And then cried Mary! and I tucked up
Wi a Claymore out and about
And I run down, down the mechyn sty
And beckoned the fiery whore
That was fallin around the feet
Never, I cried. Never shall ye get me alive
Ya rotten hound of the Burnie Brae
Well, I snapped for a blade and a Claymore cut and thrust
And I fell down before him round his feet
Aye, a roar he cried! Frae the bottom of his heart
That I would nay fall but dead, dead as a can by a feat deah...
And the wind cried Mary
Thank you |
They disembarked in 45
And no-one spoke and no-one smiled
There were too many spaces in the line
Gathered at the cenotaph
All agreed with the hand on heart
To sheath the sacrificial Knifes
But now
She stands upon Southampton dock
With her handkerchief
And her summer frock clings
To her wet body in the rain
In quiet desperation knuckles
White upon the slippery reins
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again
And still the dark stain spreads between
Their shoulder blades
A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves
And when the fight was over
We spent what they had made, but
In the bottom of our hearts we felt the final cut |
Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don’t discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather round and haggle
For hard cash we will lie and deceive
Even our Masters don’t know the webs we weave
One world, it’s a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world… One world
Invisible transfers and long distance calls
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can’t stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have our dark side to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast
One world, it’s a battleground
One world, and theyre gonna smash it down
One world… One world
One world… One world
The dogs of war don’t negotiate
The dogs of war won’t capitulate
They will take and you will give
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door
But wherever you go, you know they’ve been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change you know the dogs remain
One world, it’s a battleground
One world, and were gonna smash it down
One world… One world
One world… One world
One world… One world |
Bridges burning gladly merging with the shadow
Flickering between the lines
Stolen moments floating softly on the air
Born on wings of fire and climbing higher
Ancient bonds are breaking
Moving on and changing sides
Dreaming of a new day
Cast aside the other way
(Magic vision stirring
Kindled by and burning
Flames rise in her eyes)
The door that stands ajar
The walls that once were high
Beyond the gilded cage
Beyond the reach of ties
The moment is at hand
She breaks the golden band |
Stay and help me to end the day
And if you don’t mind
We’ll break a bottle of wine
Stick around and maybe we’ll put one down
Cause I wanna find what lies behind those eyes
Midnight blue
Burning gold
A yellow moon
Is growing cold
I rise, looking through my morning eyes
Surprised to find you by my side
Rack my brain and try to remember your name
To find the words to tell you good-bye
Morning dues
Newborn day
Midnight blue
Turned to gray
Midnight blue
Burning gold
A yellow moon
Is growing cold |
One, two, free, four!
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime
You shuffle in gloom of the sickroom
And talk to yourself as you die
Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long, cold rest
You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye
Eighty years, with luck, or even less
So all aboard for the American tour
And maybe you’ll make it to the top
And mind how you go, and I can tell you, ’cause I know
You may find it hard to get off
You are the angel of death
And I am the dead man’s son
And he was buried like a mole in a fox hole
And everyone is still on the run
And who is the master of fox hounds?
And who says the hunt has begun?
And who calls the tune in the courtroom?
And who beats the funeral drum?
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime
You shuffle in gloom in the sickroom
And talk to yourself as you die |
A restless eye across a weary room
A glazed look and I was on the road to ruin
The music played and played as we whirled without end
No hint, no word her honour to defend
I will, I will she sighed to my request
And then she tossed her mane while my resolve was put to the test
Then drowned in desire, our souls on fire
I led the way to the funeral pyre
And without a thought of the consequence
I gave in to my decadence
One slip, and down the hole we fall
It seems to take no time at all
A momentary lapse of reason
That binds a life for life
A small regret, you won’t forget
There’ll be no sleep in here tonight
Was it love or was it the idea of being in love?
Or was it the hand of fate, that seemed to fit just like a glove?
The moment slipped by and soon the seeds were sown
The year grew late and neither one wanted to remain alone
One slip, and down the hole we fall
It seems to take no time at all
A momentary lapse of reason
That binds a life to a life
One regret, you will never forget
There’ll be no sleep in here tonight
One slip… one slip… |
“People often ask me about the voices on Dark Side. I was trying to gather audio snippets to mix into segues on Dark Side. Rather than interviewing people I came up with the idea of writing a series of questions on cards. The cards would be in a stack on a conductors stand in front of a mike. We would scour Abbey Road Studios for willing guinea pigs, bring them to the studio, sit them down, roll tape and then ask them to respond to each card in order.
As I recall the first card was something irrelevant and innocuous, like “What’s your favourite colour?” and the last was the more enigmatic “What do you think of The Dark Side Of The Moon?”
I can’t remember the ones in between, except for:
Are you afraid of dying?
When were you last violent?
Were you in the right?
Do you ever think you’re going mad?
If so why?
End of Story.” |
“Icy wind of night be gone this is not your domain”
In the sky a bird was heard to cry
Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds
Belied the deathly silence that lay all around
Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox
Gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes through the endless summer, making for the sea
In the lazy water meadow I lay me down
All around me golden sun flakes settle on the ground
Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room
Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox
Gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes through the endless summer, making for the sea
In the lazy water meadow I lay me down
All around me golden sun flakes covering the ground
Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday into my city room
Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox
Gone to ground
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes through the endless summer, making for the sea |
Gotta be crazy, you gotta be mean
Gotta keep your shoes and your car clean
Gotta keep smiling, you gotta keep fit
You gotta keep drinking, you gotta eat shit
You gotta be small to be a big shot
Gotta eat meat to stay at the top
You gotta be trusted, you gotta tell lies
Gotta be able to narrow your eyes
You gotta believe they gotta believe you
Gotta appear easy to see through
Gotta be sure you look good on TV
Gotta resemble a human being
You gotta keep one eye over your shoulder
Gonna get harder as you get older
Gotta fly south and hide in the sand
Gotta forget that youre gonna get cancer
And when you lose control
Youll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows
The bad blood slows and turns to stone
And its too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown as you go down
All alone
Dragged down by the stone
Youve gotta be sure, you gotta be quick
Gotta divide the tame from the sick
Gotta keep all of us docile and fit
Gotta keep everyone buying this shit
They gotta get you started early
Processed by the time youre thirty
You work like fuck until youre sixty-five
And times your own until you die
Gotta admit to a lot of confusion
Pain in the head is the child of collusion
Gotta resist this creeping malaise
Gotta believe in the way you get out of the maze
But you, you just keep on pretending
You can tell a sucker from a friend
But you still raise the knife
Stranger, lover, friend and foe alike
Who was born in a house full of pain
Born in a house full of pain
Who was sent out to play on his own
Sent out to play on his own
Who was raised on a diet of shame
Raised on a diet of shame
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with bridle and bit
Fitted with bridle and bit
Who was given a seat in the stand
Given a seat in the stand
Who was forcing his way to the rail
Forcing his way to the rail
Who was offered a place on the board
Offered a place on the board
Who was only a stranger at home
Only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone
Dragged down by the stone |
In yellow shoes I get the blues
Though I walk the streets with my plastic feet
With my blue velvet trousers, make me feel pink
Theres a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
In my paisley shirt I look a jerk
And my turquoise waistcoat is quite out of sight
But oh oh my haircut looks so bad
Vegetable man, where are you?
So Ive changed my gear, and I find my knees
And I covered them up with the latest cut
And my pants and socks all point in a box
They dont make long of my nylon socks
The watch, black watch
My watch with a black face
And a big pin, a little hole
And all the lot is what I got
Its what I wear, its what you see
It must be me, its what I am
Vegetable man
Ive been looking all over the place for a place for me
But it aint anywhere, it just aint anywhere
Vegetable man, vegetable man
Hes the kind of person, you just gonna see him if you can
Vegetable man |
In a churchyard by a river
Lazing in the haze of midday
Laughing in the grasses and the graves
Yellow bird, you are not lone
In singing and in flying on
In laughing and in leaving
Willow weeping in the water
Waving to the river daughters
Swaying in the ripples and the reeds
On a trip to Cirrus Minor
Saw a crater in the sun
A thousand miles of moonlight later |
Breathe, breathe in the air
Dont be afraid to care
Leave, but dont leave me
Look around
Choose your own ground
Long you live and high you fly
And smiles youll give and tears youll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
Run, rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Dont sit down
Its time to dig another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave |
One sound, one single sound
One kiss, one single kiss
A face outside the window pane
However did it come to this?
A man who ran: a child who cried
A girl who heard, a voice that lied
The sun that burned a fiery red
The vision of an empty bed
The use of force, he was so tough
She’ll soon submit, she’s had enough
The march of fate, the broken will
Someone is lying very still
He has laughed and he has cried
He has fought and he has died
He’s just the same as all the rest
He’s not the worst, and he’s not the best
And still, this ceaseless murmuring
The babbling that I brook
The seas of faces, eyes upraised
The empty screen, the vacant look
A man in black on a snow white horse
A pointless life has run its course
The red rimmed eyes, the tears still run
As he fades into the setting sun |
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible
Mankinds greatest achievements have come about by talking
Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future, with the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking |
Got a flip-top pack of cigarettes in her pocket
Feeling good at the top, shopping in sharp shoes
Walking in the sunshine town
Feeling very cool
But the butchers and the bakers in the supermarket stores
Getting everything she wants from the supermarket stores
Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges
Cornering neatly she trips up sweetly
To meet the people, shes on time again
And then
I catch her by the eye, then I stop and have to think
What a funny thing to do cause Im feeling very pink
Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges
I love she
She loves me
See you
See you
See you
Thought you might like to know
Im her lorry driver man
Shes on the run
Down by the river side, feeding ducks in the afternoon tide
Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges |
I was standing by the Nile
When I saw the lady smile
I would take her out for a while
For a while
Like tears left like a child
How her golden hair was blowing wild
Then she spread her wings to fly
For to fly
Soaring high above the breezes
Going always where she pleases
She will make it to the islands in the sun
I will follow in her shadow
As I watch her from my window
One day I will catch her eye
She is calling from the deep
Summoning my soul to endless sleep
She is bound to drag me down
Drag me down |
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Blam blam your pointers point your pointers
Waddle with apples to crunchy Mrs. Stores
Shell be scrubbing bubbles on all fours
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter
Flat tops of houses, mouses, houses
Fiddle and Diddle sitting bat tat tat
Watching the telly till all hours - telly time!
Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Blam blam your pointers point your pointers
Waddle with apples to crunchy Mrs. Stores
Shell be scrubbing bubbles on all fours
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket |
Boat rowing
When the child-like view of the world went, nothing replaced it... Nothing replaced it… Nothing replaced it…
I do not like being asked to... I do not like being asked to... I do not like being asked to...
Other people replaced it... Someone who knows |
Following the path as it leads towards
The darkness in the north
Weary stranger’s faces show their sympathy
They’ve seen that hope before
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
And now you can’t delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can’t catch the words they say
Close your ears and eyes, be on your way
Mist is swirling, creatures crawling
Hear the roar get louder in your ears
You know the folly was your own
But the force behind can’t conquer all you fears
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
And now you can’t delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can’t catch the words they say
Close your ears and eyes, be on your way
Throw your thoughts back many years
To the time when love was life with every morning
Perhaps a day will come
When the lights will be as clear as on that morning
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
And now you can’t delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can’t catch the words they say
Close your ears and eyes, be on your way |
Come on, my friends
Let’s make for the hills
They say there’s gold and I’m looking for thrills
You can get your hands on whatever we find
Because I’m only coming along for the ride
Well, you go your way
I’ll go mine
I don’t care if we get there on time
Everybody’s searching for something, they say
I’ll get my kicks on the way
Over the mountains, across the sea
Who knows what will be waiting for me?
I could sail forever to strange sounding names
Faces of people and places don’t change
All I have to do is just close my eyes
To see the seagulls wheeling in those far distant skies
All I want to tell you, all I want to say
Is count me in on the journey
Don’t expect me to stay |
Hey Eugene, this is Henry McClean
And Ive finished my beautiful flying machine
And Im ringing to say that Im leaving and maybe
Youd like to fly with me and hide with me, baby
Isnt it strange how little we change?
Isnt it sad were insane?
Playing the games that we know end in tears
The games weve been playing for thousands and thousands
And thousands and...
Jumped into his cosmic flyer
Pulled his plastic collar higher
Light the fuse and stand right back
He cried, This is my last goodbye
Point me at the sky and let it fly
Point me at the sky and let it fly
Point me at the sky and let it fly
And if you survive till two thousand and five
I hope youre exceedingly thin
For if you are stout you will have to breathe out
While the people around you breathe in, breathe in
Breathe in, breathe in...
People pressing on my sides
Is something that I hate
And so is sitting down to eat
With only little capsules on my plate
Point me at the sky and let it fly
Point me at the sky and let it fly
Point me at the sky and let it fly
And all weve got to say to you is goodbye
Its time to go, better run and get your bags, its goodbye
Nobody cry, its goodbye |
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far
Shine on you crazy diamond
Pile on many more layers and ill be joining you there
Shine on you crazy diamond
And well bask in the shadow of yesterdays triumph
And sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine! |
I have always been here
I have always looked out from behind these eyes
It feels like more than a lifetime
Feels like more than a lifetime
Sometimes I get tired of the waiting
Sometimes I get tired of being in here
Is this the way that its always been?
Could it ever have been different?
Do you ever get tired of the waiting?
Do you ever get tired of being in there?
Dont worry, nobody lives forever
Nobody lives forever |
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
What a way to spend that evening
They all turn up with their friends
Playing the game
Theyre in the scene I should have been
Far away
Getting up, I feel as if I’m remembering this scene before
I open the door to an empty room
Then I forget
The telephone rings and someone speaks
She would very much like to go out to a show
So what can I do? – I can’t think what to say
She sees through anyway
Out of the front door I go
Traffic’s moving rather slow
Arriving late
There she waits, looking very angry
As cross as she can be
Getting up, I feel as if I’m remembering this scene before
I open the door to an empty room
Then I forget |
We smile and smile
We smile and smile
Laughter echoes in your eyes
We climb and climb
We climb and climb
Footfalls softly in the pines
We cry and cry
We cry and cry
Sadness passes in a while
We roll and roll
We roll and roll
Help me roll away the stone |
All is love, is all I am
A ball is all I am
Im so new compared to you
And I am very small
Warm glow, moon bloom
Always need a little more room
Waiting here seems like years
Never seen the light of day
All around I hear strange sounds
Come gurgling in my ear
Red the light and dark the night
I feel my dawn is near
Warm glow, moon gloom
Always need a little more room
Whisper low, here I go
I will see the sunshine show |
Oh my, girl sitting in the sun
Go buy, candy and a currant bun
I like, to see you run
Like that......
Oooh, dont talk to me
Please, just fuck with me
Please, you know Im feeling frail
Its true, sun shining very bright
Its you, who Im gonna love tonight
Ice cream, taste good in the afternoon
Ice cream, taste good if you eat it soon
Oooh, dont touch me child
Please, you know you drive me wild
Please, you know Im feeling frail
Dont try another cat
Dont go where other you must know why
Very, very, very frail
Oh my, girl sitting in the sun
Go buy, candy and a currant bun
I like, to see you run
Like that...... |
Im so afraid
Of all the mistakes that Ive made
Shaking every time that I awake
I feel like a cardboard cut-out man
So build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the story line is kind
Ive aged and aged since the first page
Ive lived every line that you wrote
Take me down, take me down
From the shelf above your head
And build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the story line is kind
I live where Im left
On the shelf like the rest
And the epilogue reads like a sad song
Please pick up your camera
And use me again
And build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the storyline is kind
Yeaaaah! |
I will always be here
I will always look out from behind these eyes
It’s only a lifetime
It’s only a lifetime
It’s only a lifetime |
Come in, sit down
Can you show me where it hurts
Try and tell me in your own words
I must seem very old
But I was young once too
Ive seen many others like you
I always say exactly the same thing
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now Ive got that feeling once again
I cant explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
You have to pull yourself together
You have to take it like a man
You mustnt let it get your head down
You should go out and do the town
Theres no good moping here alone
Feeling sorry for yourself
Go and see what you can find
Its Saturday night and you should unwind |
Raving and drooling, I fell on his neck with a scream
He had a whole lot of terminal shock in his eye
Thats what you get for pretending the rest are not real
Babbling and snapping at far away flies
He will zig zag his way back through memories of boredom and pain
How does it feel to be empty and angry and spaced
Split up the middle between the illusion of safety in numbers
And the fist in your face |
Wasting my time
Resting my mind
And I’ll never pine
For the sad days and the bad days
When we was workin’ from nine to five
And if you don’t mind
I’ll spend my time
Here by the fire side
In the warm light of the love in her eyes
And if you don’t mind
I’ll spend my time
Here by the fire side
In the warm light of the love in her eyes |
Pass the tequila, Manuel
Listen, gringo, laugh at my lisp and I kill you
I think
This Spanish music
It sets my soul on fire
Lovely señorita
Your eyes are like stars
Your teeth are like pearls
Your ruby lips |
Listen all you girlies
Even though I havent met you
Gonna catch you soon
In my butterfly net
Youd better watch out
Sometimes when I watch you
I stretch out my hand to touch you
Cause it drives my me wild
To see you flutter by
You butterfly
I wont squeeze you dead
Aiming through your head
I just want your love
I won’t write your name
In Latin in a frame
Cause framing is a chain
Listen all you girlies
Even though I havent met you
Gonna catch you soon
In my butterfly net
Youd better watch out |
You staggered away from those desperate days
Leaving of a trail of fear and degradation
Went downtown, he loitered around
In front of the flea pit by the railway station
Deep down next to his heart
In the inside pocket of his cheap leather jacket
He secretly fingers
A dog-eared card that read
Ooh, I need a dirty woman
Ooh, I need a dirty girl
A beautiful girl looked down from the wall
In a grimy frame beside the next attraction
He hid in the queue with his tongue hanging out
Staring up in silent admiration
Deep down near my heart
In the early hours from the lost world in the silver screen
And the silent scream
Ooh, I need a dirty woman
Ooh, I need a dirty girl
You staggered away from those desperate days
Leaving of a trail of fear and degradation
Went downtown, he loitered around
In front of the flea pit by the railway station
Deep down next to his heart
In the inside pocket of his cheap leather jacket
He secretly fingers
A dog-eared card that read
Ooh, I need a dirty woman
Ooh, I need a dirty girl |
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
To meet, sometime
Everybody wakes, and in the morning
Hot tea and cant stop yawning
Pass the butter please
Have you ever read the Daily Standard?
Reading all about the plane thats landed
Upside down?
And no one knows what I did today
There can be no other way
But I would just like to say
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
To meet sometime
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
To meet sometime
Everybody cares about the weather
And everybody should know better
What a waste of time
Everybody lives beneath the ceiling
Living out a dream that sends them reeling
To a distant place
But no one knows what I did today
There can be no other way
But I would just like to say
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
To meet sometime
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
To meet sometime
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
It would be so nice
To meet sometime |
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 leading role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here
Were 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 |
Following the path as it leads towards
The darkness in the North
Weary strangers faces show their sympathy
Theyve seen that hope before
But if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you, the night is beckoning
And you know you cant delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you cant catch the words they say
Close your ears and eyes, be on your way
Mist is swirling, creatures crawling
Hear the roar get louder in your ears
You know, the folly was your own
But the force behind cant conquer all your fears
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you, the night is beckoning
And you know you cant delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you cant catch the words they say
Close your ears and eyes, be on your way
Pull your thoughts back many years
To the time when there was life with every morning
Perhaps a day will come
When the light will be as clear as on that morning
And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
Before you, the night is beckoning
And you know you cant delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you cant catch the words they say
Close your ears and eyes, be on your way |
We dont need your adulation
We dont need your starry gaze
How the years have come between us
You should have seen them in the early days
Should have seen them in the early days
All in all, its just another brick in the wall
All in all, its just another brick in the wall
They dont need your reminiscing
They dont need your memories
They dont want to hear whos missing
You should have seen them when the boys were young
You should have seen them when the boys were young
All in all, its just another brick in the wall
All in all, youre just another brick in the wall |
There was a boy whose name was Jim
His friends, they were very good to him
They gave him tea, and cakes and jam
And slices of delicious ham
Oh Mother tell me more
Whydyou have to leave me there
Hanging in my infant air, waiting
You only have to read the lines of
Scribbly black and everything shines
The chief defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of string
At last he swallowed some which tied
Itself in ugly knots inside
Wondering and dreaming
The words have different meanings
Yes they did
Finding she was left alone
Went tiptoe to the telephone, 999
Summoned the immediate aid
Of Londons Noble Fire Brigade
For all the time spent in that room
The dolls house darkness old perfume
And fairy stories held me high
On clouds of sunlight floating by
Oh Mother tell me more
Tell me more |
Ooohhh
Walk with me, Sydney
I’d love to, love to, love to, baby you know
Ooohhh
Walk with me, Sydney
I’d love to, love to, love to, love to
Walk with me, Sydney, it’s a dark night
Come on, come on, hold me tight
Well, I’d love to, love to, love to
But I got
Flat feet, fallen arches
Baggy knees and a broken frame
Meningitis, peritonitis
DTs and a washed-up brain …
Ooohhh
Roll with me, Sydney
I’d love to, love to, love to, baby you know
Ooohhh
Roll with me, Sydney
I’d love to, love to, love to, love to
Roll with me, Sydney, it’s a dark night
Come on, come on, hold me tight
Well, I’d love to, love to, love to
But I got
Flat feet, fallen arches
Baggy knees and a broken frame
Meningitis, peritonitis
DTs and a washed-up brain
Ooohhh
Walk with me, Sydney
I’d love to, love to, love to, baby you know
Ooohhh
Walk with me, Sydney
I’d love to, love to, love to, love to
Walk with me, Sydney, it’s a dark night
Come on, come on, hold me tight
Well, I’d love to, love to, love to
But I got
Flat feet, fallen arches
Baggy knees and a broken frame
Meningitis, peritonitis
DTs and a washed-up brain |
Leave when I ask you to leave, Lucy
Please fall away from me, Lucy
Oh, go, little girl
See that Im so broken up about you, Lucy
Mean treatin me and done me harm, Lucy
Been in love with you and your charms, Lucy
Oh, go, little girl
Im in love with you, Lucy
You got my heart, you got my heart, oh no
You tear me apart, you just wont let me go
You hold on so tight, so tight I just cant breathe
Now Lucy leave, Lucy
Leave when I ask you to leave, little girl
Please fall away from me, little girl
Yeah, go, little girl
See that Im so broke up about you, Lucy
Yeah, girl |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and summery
And no one call us to the land
And no one knows the wheres or whys
But something stirs and something tries
Starts to climb towards the light
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun
Darkness every day you fall
Upon my waking eyes
Inciting and inviting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky |
I dont need no education
I dont need no flexophone
Your dark sarcasm in the classroom
So teacher leave them kids alone
All in all youre just another brick in the wall |
Schoolboy, schoolboy, did you hear what I said?
How am I supposed to make you see the light?
Its hard enough to sleepwalk through the day
Without some creepy little boy like you
Bombarding my lonely shell
Glimpses of half-open doors
Gleams in the night that I might well have followed myself
Teacher, teacher, you might as well be dead
All those years you tried to suck my brain away
It was hard enough to drag myself from bed
Without some crazy lunatic like you
Bombarding my still softshell
Sticks and stones that you found lying around
In the pile of unspeakable feelings, you found
When you turn back the stone
Turned over the stone
Of your own disappointment
Back home |
Well, Im a King Bee
Buzzing around your hive
Yes, Im a King Bee, child
Buzzing around your hive
I can make good honey
Let me come inside
Im young and able
To buzz all night long
You know Im young and able
To buzz all night long
When you hear me buzz, little girl
You know some stingings going on
Ill sting
Well, Im a King Bee
Can buzz all night long
Yes Im a King Bee
Can buzz all night long
Well, I buzz better baby
When your man is gone |
Could I have eggs, sausage, chips & beans and a tea?
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
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
Were 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 |
Bo Diddley was a private eye
Hand was fast and his I.Q. high
D.A. said Double O, you wont last
Slow down boy, you living too fast
Well, Double O had a Cadillac
Machine guns and a bullet-proof back
Engine taken from a 707
Sounds like a sure way to get into heaven
In his pocket, 5 pounds of lead
Keep Bo Diddley from getting dead
Another thing helped Bo keeping alive
Was a snub-nosed, Smith And Wesson, Colt 45
Well, Bo drank gallons of rye and bourbon
Martinis dry, and you better serve them
Martini so dry, the shaker burst
Bo keeled on his side and died of thirst |
In a while
I find the time to make the sunshine mine
In a smile
I saw a single eagle in the sky
Wheeling, soaring, gliding by
Wheeling, soaring, gliding by |
Remember when you were young?
You shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond!
Now theres a look in your eyes
Like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond!
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze
Come on, you target for faraway laughter
Come on, you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon
You cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond!
Threatened by shadows at night
And exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond!
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision
Rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Nobody knows where you are
How near or how far
Shine on you crazy diamond
Pile on many more layers
And I’ll be joining you there
Shine on you crazy diamond
And we’ll bask in the shadow of yesterday’s triumph
And sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine! |
Remember me
Ive been here before
Remember me
Ive been here before
Cant you see
Im gonna stick around some more
Cant you see
I want some love from you
Cant you see
I want some love from you
Dont go away now
Ive got something to give to you
Ill try to be
As good as gold to you
Try to be
As good as gold to you
But dont blame me, girl
If Im far from cold to you
Remember me
Ive been here before
Remember me
Ive been here before
Dont go away now
Come and stick around some more
Yeah |