Pink Floyd Echoes - The Best of Pink Floyd ASTRONOMY DOMINE (Barrett) Vocals Syd Barrett and Richard Wright Lime and limpid green, a second scene, a fight between the blue you once knew Floating down, the sound resounds around the icy waters underground Jupiter and Saturn Oberon, Miranda and Titania, Neptune, Titan stars can frighten Blinding signs flap, flicker, flicker, flicker, blam Pow, pow Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there Lime and limpid green, the sound surrounds the icy waters underground Lime and limpid green, the sound surrounds the icy waters underground Taken from THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN Produced by Norman Smith Released 1967 © 1967 TRO Essex Music, Inc SEE EMILY PLAY (Barrett) Vocal Syd Barrett Emily tries but misunderstands She often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow There is no other day Let's try it another way You'll lose your mind and play Free games for may See Emily play Soon after dark Emily cries Gazing through trees in sorrow, hardly a sound till tomorrow There is no other day Let's try it another way You'll lose your mind and play Free games for may See Emily play Put on a gown that touches the ground Float on a river forever and ever Emily, Emily There is no other day Let's try it another way You'll lose your mind and play Free games for may See Emily play Produced by Norman Smith Released 1967 © 1967 TRO Essex Music, Inc The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Waters) Vocal Roger Waters When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision upon anything we did Exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids But in the town it was well known When they got home at night Their fat and psychopathic wives would Thrash them within inches of their lives Taken from THE WALL Produced by (in alphabetical order) Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour and Roger Waters Co-produced by James Guthrie Released 1979 © 1979 Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) (Waters) Vocals Roger Waters, David Gilmour and the children of Islington Green School We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey teacher, leave the kids alone All in all it's just another brick in the wall All in all you're just another brick in the wall We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave the kids alone Hey teacher, leave us kids alone All in all you're just another brick in the wall All in all you're just another brick in the wall Taken from THE WALL Produced by (in alphabetical order) Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, Roger Waters Co-produced by James Guthrie Released 1979 © Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) Echoes (Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright) Vocals David Gilmour and Richard Wright 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 submarine And no-one showed us to the land And no-one knows the where or whys But something stirs and something tries And 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 And no-one speaks and no-one tries And no-one flies around the sun Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes Inviting and inciting 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 And so I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky Taken from MEDDLE Produced by Pink Floyd Released 1971 © 1971 TRO - Hampshire House Publishing Corp Hey You (Waters) Vocals David Gilmour and Roger Waters Fretless bass David Gilmour Hey you, out there in the cold Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me Hey you, standing in the aisles With itchy feet and fading smiles can you feel me Hey you, don't help them to bury the light Don't give in without a fight Hey you, out there on your own Sitting naked by the phone Would you touch me Hey you, with your ear against the wall Waiting for someone to call out, would you touch me Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone Open your heart, I'm coming home But it was only fantasy The wall was too high, as you can see No matter how he tried he could not break free And the worms ate into his brain Hey you, out there on the road Always doing what you're told, can you help me Hey you, out there beyond the wall Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall Taken from THE WALL Produced by (in alphabetical order) Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, Roger Waters Co-produced by James Guthrie Released 1979 © 1979 Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) Marooned Instrumental (Wright, Gilmour) Additional keyboards Jon Carin Bass Guy Pratt Taken From THE DIVISION BELL Produced by Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour Released 1994 © 1994 Pink Floyd Music Publishers, Inc The Great Gig in the Sky Instrumental (Wright) Vocal Clare Torry Taken from THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Produced by PINK FLOYD Released 1973 © 1973 TRO - Hampshire House Publishing Corp Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Waters) Vocal Roger Waters Little by little the night turns around Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn Lotuses lean on each other in yearning Under the eaves the swallow is resting Set the controls for the heart of the sun Over the mountain watching the watcher Breaking the darkness Waking the grapevine One inch of love is one inch of shadow Love is the shadow that ripens the wine Set the controls for the heart of the sun The heart of the sun ... Witness the man who raves at the wall Making the shape of his question to Heaven Whether the sun will fall in the evening Will he remember the lesson of giving Set the controls for the heart of the sun The heart of the sun ... Taken from A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS Produced by Norman Smith Released 1968 © 1967 TRO Essex Music International Money (Waters) Vocal David Gilmour Saxophone Dick Parry Money, get away Get a good job with more pay and your o.k. Money it's a gas Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash New car, caviar, four star daydream Think I'll buy me a football team Money get back I'm all right jack keep your hands off my stack Money it's a hit Don't give me that do goody good bullshit I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set And I think I need a Lear jet Money it's a crime Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie Money so they say Is the root of all evil today But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away Taken from THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Produced by PINK FLOYD Released 1973 © 1973 TRO - Hampshire House Publishing Corp Keep Talking (Gilmour, Wright, Samson) Vocal David Gilmour Featuring the voice of Stephen Hawking Backing vocals Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, Carol Kenyon, Jackie Sheridan and Rebecca Leigh-White Additional keyboards Jon Carin Bass Guy Pratt Programmed percussion Gary Wallis For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination We learned to talk There's a silence surrounding me I can't seem to think straight I'll sit in the corner No one can bother me I think I should speak now Why won't you talk to me I can't seem to speak now You never talk to me My words won't come out right What are you thinking I feel like I'm drowning What are you feeling I'm feeling weak now Why won't you talk to me But I can't show my weakness You never talk to me I sometimes wonder What are you thinking Where do we go from here What are you feeling It doesn't have to be like this All we need to do is make sure we keep talking Why won't you talk to me I feel like I'm drowning You never talk to me You know I can't breathe now What are you thinking We're going nowhere What are you feeling We're going nowhere Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking Where do we go from here It doesn't have to be like this All we need to do is make sure we keep talking Taken From THE DIVISION BELL Produced by Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour Released 1994 © 1994 Pink Floyd Music Publishers, Inc Sheep (Waters) Vocal Roger Waters Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air You better watch out there may be dogs about Well, I've looked over Jordan and I have seen Things are not what they seem What do you get for pretending the danger's not real Meek and obedient you follow the leader Down well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel What a surprise A look of terminal shock in your eyes Now things are really what they seem No, this is no bad dream The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want He makes me down to lie Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by With bright knives He releaseth my soul He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places He converteth me to lamb cutlets For lo he hath great power and great hunger When cometh the day we lowly ones Through quiet reflection And great dedication Master the art of karate Lo we shall rise up And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream Wave upon wave of demented avengers March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream Have you heard the news? The dogs are dead You better stay home and do as you're told Get out of the road if you want to grow old Taken from ANIMALS Produced by PINK FLOYD Released 1977 © 1977 Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) Sorrow (Gilmour) Vocal David Gilmour Drums programmed by David Gilmour Additional keyboards Jon Carin Bass Tony Levin Backing vocals Darlene Koldenhaven, Carmen Twillie, Phylis St. James and Donnie Gerrard The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise In his youth or a dream, he can't be precise He's chained forever to a world that 's departed It's not enough, it's not enough His blood has frozen and curdled with fright His knees have trembled given way in the night His hand has weakened at the moment of truth His step has faltered One world, one soul, Time pass, the river roll And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication And silent replies that swirl invitation Flow dark and troubled to an oily sea A grim intimation of what is to be There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight And silence that speaks so much louder Than words of promises broken Taken from A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON Produced by Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour Released 1987 © 1987 Pink Floyd Music Publishers, Inc Shine on You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-7) (Gilmour, Waters, Wright) Vocal Roger Waters Saxophone Dick Parry Backing vocals Venetta Fields and Carlena Williams Remember when you were young You shone like the sun Shine on you crazy diamond Now there's a look in your eyes Like black holes in the sky Shine on you crazy diamond You were caught in 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 years and I'll be joining you there Shine on you crazy diamond And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph Sail on the steel breeze Come on you boy child, you winner and loser, Come on you miner for truth and delusion and shine Taken from WISH YOU WERE HERE Produced by PINK FLOYD Released 1975 © 1974 Pink Floyd Music Publishers, Inc / Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) Time (Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) Vocals David Gilmour and Richard Wright Backing vocals Doris Troy, Leslie Duncan, Liza Strike and Barry St. John Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking And racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time has gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say Breathe Reprise (Unlisted track) Home, home again I like to be here when I can When I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells Taken from THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Produced by PINK FLOYD Released 1973 © 1973 TRO - Hampshire House Publishing Corp The Fletcher Memorial Home (Waters) Vocal Roger Waters Orchestra arranged and conducted by Michael Kamen Piano Michael Kamen Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere And build them a home A little place of their own The fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings They can appear to themselves every day On closed circuit tv To make sure they're still real It's the only connection they feel "Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Reagan and Haig, Mr. Begin and friend Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley, Mr. Brezhnev and party The ghost of McCarthy And the memories of Nixon And now adding colour a group of anonymous Latin American meat packing glitterati" Did they expect us to treat them with any respect They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles And amuse themselves playing games for a while Boom boom, bang bang lie down you're dead Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye Their favourite toy They'll be good girls and boys In the fletcher memorial home for colonial wasters of life and limb Is everyone in? Are you having a nice time? now the final solution can be applied Taken from THE FINAL CUT Produced by Roger Waters , James Guthrie and Michael Kamen Released 1983 © 1982 Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) Comfortably Numb (Gilmour, Waters) Vocals Roger Waters and David Gilmour Orchestration by Michael Kamen and Bob Ezrin Wrong! Do it again. knock knock knock knock Time to go! Are you feeling okay? There's a man answering but he keeps hanging up. Is there anybody out there? Hello Is there anybody in there Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone at home Come on now I hear you're feeling down Well I can ease the pain And get you on your feet again Relax I'll need some information first Just the basic facts Can you show me where it hurts There is no pain, you are receding A distant ship's smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain, you would not understand This is not how I am I have become comfortably numb I have become comfortably numb O. K. Just a little pinprick There'll be no more aaaaah! But you may feel a little sick Can you stand up I do believe it's working, good That'll keep you going through the show Come on it's time to go There is no pain, you are receding A distant ship's smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown The dream is gone And I have become Comfortably numb Taken from THE WALL Produced by (in alphabetical order) Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour and Roger Waters Co-produced by James Guthrie Released 1979 © 1979 Pink Floyd Music Publishers, Inc / Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) When The Tigers Broke Free (Waters) Vocal Roger Waters Orchestra conducted and arranged by Michael Kamen The Pontardulais Male Voice Choir by Noel Davis It was just before dawn One miserable morning in black forty-four When the Forward Commander was told to sit tight When he asked that his men be withdrawn And the Generals gave thanks As the other ranks Held back the enemy tanks for a while And the Anzio Bridgehead was held for the price Of a few hundred ordinary lives And kind old King George Sent Mother a note When heard that Father was gone It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll With gold leaf and all And I found it one day In a drawer of old photographs Hidden away And my eyes still grow damp To remember His Majesty Signed it with his own rubber stamp It was dark all around There was frost in the ground When the tigers broke free And no one survived From the Royal Fusiliers Company C They were all left behind Most of them dead The rest of them dying And that's how the High Command took my Daddy from me Taken from THE WALL MOVIE SOUNDTRACK Produced by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, James Guthrie and Michael Kamen © 1979 Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) One of These Days Instrumental (Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright) Double tracked basses Roger Waters and David Gilmour Vocal phrase Nick Mason One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces Taken from MEDDLE Produced by PINK FLOYD Released 1971 © 1971 TRO - Hampshire House Publishing Corp Us and Them (Waters, Wright) Vocal David Gilmour) Saxophone Dick Parry Backing vocals Doris Troy, Leslie Duncan, Liza Strike and Barry St. John Us, and Them And after all we're only ordinary men Me, and you God only knows it's not what we would choose to do Forward he cried from the rear And the front rank died The General sat, and the lines on the map Moved from side to side Black and blue And who knows which is which and who is who Up and Down And in the end it's only round and round and round Haven't you heard it's a battle of words The poster bearer cried Listen son, said the man with the gun There's room for you inside Down and Out It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about With, without And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about Out of the way, it's a busy day And I've got things on my mind For want of the price of tea and a slice The old man died Taken from THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Produced by PINK FLOYD Released 1973 © 1971 TRO - Hampshire House Publishing Corp Learning to Fly (Gilmour. Moore, Ezrin, Carin) Vocal David Gilmour Bass Tony Levin Keyboards John Carin Percussion Steve Forman Backing vocals Darlene Koldenhaven, Carmen Twillie, Phyllis St. James and Donnie Gerrard Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back A flight of fancy on a windswept field Standing alone my senses reeled A fatal attraction holding me fast How can I escape this irresistible grasp Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earthbound misfit, I Ice is forming on the tips of my wings Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything No navigator to guide my way home Unladened, empty and turned to stone A soul in tension that's learning to fly Condition grounded but determined to try Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I Above the planet on a wing and a prayer My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air Across the clouds I see my shadow fly Out of the corner of my watering eye A dream unthreatened by the morning light Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss Can't keep my mind from the circling sky Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I Taken from A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON Produced by Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour Released 1987 © 1987 Pink Floyd Music Publishers, Inc Arnold Layne (Barrett) Vocal Syd Barrett Arnold Layne had a strange hobby Collecting clothes Moonshine, washing line They suit him fine On the wall hung a tall mirror Distorted view See through baby blue He dug it Oh, Arnold Layne it's not the same It takes two to know Two to know Two to know Why can't you see Arnold Layne Arnold Layne Arnold Layne Now he's caught, a nasty sort of person They gave him time Doors bang, chain gang He hates it Oh, Arnold Layne, it's not the same Takes two to know Two to know Two to know Two to know Why can't you see? Arnold Layne Arnold Layne Arnold Layne Arnold Layne don't do it again Produced by Joe Boyd Released 1967 © 1967 Southern Music Pub. Co. Inc Wish You Were Here (Gilmour, Waters) Vocal David Gilmour 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 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 Taken from WISH YOU WERE HERE Produced by PINK FLOYD Released 1975 © 1975 Pink Floyd Music Publishers, Inc / Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd (Artemis BV) Jugband Blues (Barrett) Vocal Syd Barrett It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here And I never knew the moon could be so big And I never knew the moon could be so blue And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes And brought me here instead dressed in red And I'm wondering who could be writing this song I don't care if the sun don't shine And I don't care if nothing is mine And I don't care if I'm nervous with you I'll do my loving in the winter And the sea isn't green And I love the Queen And what exactly is a dream And what exactly is a joke Taken from A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS Produced by Norman Smith Released 1968 © 1967 TRO Essex Music, Inc High Hopes (Gilmour, Samson) Vocal David Gilmour Bass David Gilmour Piano Jon Carin Orchestra arranged by Michael Kamen with Edward Shearmur Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young In a world of magnets and miracles Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The ringing of the Division Bell had begun Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway Do they still meet there by the cut There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps Running before time took our dreams away Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground To a life consumed by slow decay The grass was greener The light was brighter With friends surrounded The nights of wonder Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again Dragged by the force of some inner tide At a higher altitude with flag unfurled We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed-of world Encumbered forever by desire and ambition There's a hunger still unsatisfied Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon Though down this road we've been so many times The grass was greener The light was brighter The taste was sweeter The nights of wonder With friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river Forever and ever Taken From THE DIVISION BELL Produced by Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour Released 1994 © 1994 Pink Floyd Music Publishers, Inc Bike (Barrett) Vocal Syd Barrett I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like It's got a basket, a bell that rings And things to make it look good I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world I'll give you anything everything if you want things I've got a cloak it's a bit of a joke There's a tear up the front, it's red and black I've had it for months If you think it could look good, then I guess it should You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world I'll give you anything, everything if you want things I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house I don't know why I call him Gerald He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world I'll give you anything everything if you want things I've got a clan of gingerbread men, here a men, there a men Lots of gingerbread, men Take a couple if you wish, they're on the dish You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world I'll give you anything everything if you want things I know a room full of musical tunes, some rhyme, some ching Most of them are clockwork Let's go into the other room, and make them work Taken from THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN Produced by Norman Smith Released 1967 © 1967 TRO Essex Music, Inc