Pink Floyd

I am not a great fan of Pink Floyd. Yes, like everyone who grew up in the 80s, I have listened to the Another Brick in the Wall and loved the video and applauded what the song and video stood for. Otherwise I go for something that is a bit on the milder side.

Recently, fortunately, came across a couple of songs from Pink Floyd and the lyrics just blew my mind away. The band is known for its great lyrics and like any great art form, the interpretation is usually left to us.

Time

For me, these lines are biographical, my biography! Probably, yours too! When I was young, just wasted all the time waiting for someone to show me the way and now I am always chasing something or the other, in the meanwhile Time is just slipping away.

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
And 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
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a 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 nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over

Wish you were here

This song is said to a tribute to Syd Barrett, one of the original members and a genius, who had a mental breakdown possibly due to heavy drug usage. You can, of course, interpret this in many ways and relate it to your relationship with someone. Wonderful guitar solo.

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