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01-31-2010, 01:39 PM
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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 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 you found? The same old fears. Wish you were here. When I first heard this song as a teenager, I remember being very moved. I understood the message more in theory than by experience, but I knew what I was listening to was something important. Now that I'm in my 40's, and I have run over the same old ground quite a few times, it makes a greater impression than ever. Life doesn't necessarily have to be something grandiose enough to base a movie on; it doesn't have to be the most profound thing imaginable because it is your one and only life. But it is easy to compromise away the freshness and joy of life, in a day by day avoidance of simple fears (being unemployed, being rejected by your peers, being unimportant). I think these are incremental steps the vast majority of us make into lives of quiet desperation, as Thoreau put it so eloquently. Don't put more energy into worrying about making mistakes, or losing what little you have, than you put into facing the fear of stepping outside your comfort zone. Life will always be frightening, but it can also be unique and amazing in the ways that it surprises you day to day, if you have the courage.  The Rev
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They say that the song was written about Syd Barret (the first guitarist before Dave Gilmour)
So it more a representation of excessive lsd, mental breakdown, schitsophrenia etc. The song shine on you cazy diamond was about him, the album was also about the commercialism in music. But Waters is very deep and you can see almost anything in his words.
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