"Wish You Were Here" is a statement directed to the person the song writer USED to be. La chanson précédente de l'album, Have a Cigar, s'achève sur un effet évoquant une radio que l'on change de station, passant par plusieurs bandes (notamment un en… I hope someday you come back to this thread and see what your words have meant. The Committee • Tonite Lets All Make Love in London • Therefore this song is about Sid's transformation to insanity in his mind.
In the commentary of The Wall, Roger Waters states that the inspiration was Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett and his ordeal with schizophrenia. Dave was amazing playing it at Live8. Figuratively a lost soul swimming in a fish bowl. without a doubt I watch her try to contort reality into what she thinks is good, or what she wants at that time and inevitably sets herself back to a state of lesser understanding. But it never dawned on me that I was the "you" the song was referring to. It is a commentary on how people cope with the world by withdrawing physically, mentally, or emotionally. And did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts? I truly enjoyed your comment on this...I was myself have love loved Floyd all my life and only 36yrs old....but did do a high school essay on Syd, I would give you two thumbs up if possible. A band or songwriter spends so much time honing their skills and striving for fame and fortune, and then all of a sudden when they achieve it, they're surprised to find … The Wall is Syd Barrett's biography? Wish You Were Here est une chanson de Pink Floyd, écrite par Roger Waters et composée par David Gilmour. I am in love with this song and I have to say. Well done, Sir. >> How I wish, how i Wish you were here. I thought it was Roger Waters' biography. Not sure if the wall was a biography of syd barrett though Die letzte öffentliche Aufführung durch Pink Floyd fand 2005 bei dem Der Song entstand während der Aufnahmen zu dem Album Schließlich wird ein verrauschter Sender eingestellt, auf dem eine Für das Intro des Liedes wurde die erste Gitarrenspur zunächst von Gilmour auf einer Die zweite Gitarre, eine 6-saitige Stahlsaiten-Akustikgitarre der Firma Der Song entwickelte sich zu einem der populärsten Lieder der Band und wurde häufig von anderen Künstlern interpretiert: We’re just two lost souls Swimming in a fis…
(R.I.P. Dude.... fuckin' aye, you just nailed the song. I am just struggling with the strange situation of reading your own words as if for the first time. One that struggled with with going through life and now see my own daughter fall into the same cycle. And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage?
A smile from a veil? Perhaps the most eloquently delivered analysis I've ever read. Syd). Personally I didn't care for early Floyd as much as the latter, and I prefer David Gilmour to Syd Barrett. Écrite en souvenir de lancien leader du groupe Syd Barrett, il sagit de lune des chansons les plus connues de Pink Floyd. Definatly not a biography, but inspired in some part by him or in some part about him? Wow, I just got an e-mail letting me know that someone had commented on my post. Thank you Having come here and read the post from me in the past, I have to say I like my style and still agree with what I said. In the first part of the song he says, "So you think you can tell heaven from hell..." and so its as if the other person thinks he knows pain and pleasure and he's trying to tell him to experience it in his shoes and then he would know. Do you think you can tell? I am replying to myself......hence the name "ADDGirl." You are correct. Waters, who mainly wrote the lyrics complementing Gilmour's initial riff idea and subsequent joint composition, describes the lyrics as being directed at himself, as his lyrics often are. The song (as well as "Shine On...") is definately a tribute to Syd Barrett. This is one of the most insightful, clairvoyant and incredible interpretations that I have came across. Charakteristisch ist die hörspielhafte Anfangssequenz von Wish You Were Here, die sich an das Outro von Have A Cigar anschließt: Jemand dreht am Frequenzrad eines analogen Radios, wodurch neben Gesprächsfetzen der Stimmen eines Manns und einer Frau auch ein kurzer Ausschnitt der 4. I just wanted to add that the last part of the song is what makes me think of loss and change (either physical or mental) Hope things turn out better for you man. General Comment Wish you were here refers to Syd Barrett, an original member of Pink Floyd, who's extremely exessive drug use caused him to leave the band and be replaced by David Gilmour. Hot ashes for trees? It's an interesting interpretation and of course if that's the meaning it has for you then no one can argue with that.
I think aside from the album's Syd theme, there's a more general meaning. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? Symphonie von Tschaikowski, und zwar der 3. und 4. I knew, of course, that the song was about Roger's missing Syd, and I really liked the instrumental introduction. However, on the documentary The Story of Wish You Were Here, Gilmour and Waters separately describe the original concept that differs from this interpretation. A post that I had no recollection of making on a site that if you had asked me yesterday I would have said I have never heard of.