Reviews for Echoes Lyrics

This song. The guitar. The bass. The piano. Waters. Gilmour. The echoes. The lyrics. The time. Everything. Is just magnificent. Magnificent isn't even the right word to say how FREAKING magnificent These guys are! 👌

I am a 17 y/o teenager. I first listened to this song when i was 13. I knew pink floyd because of my dad, Ever since i was a baby! This song is what comforts me whenever i need to. Anyway my point is that after 40+ years of the band's start, they gain new fans every day. Real music never dies! <3

Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were here, Animals, all fantastic works of art! Yeah, had a little help from my friends back in the day when I first discovered Pink Floyd. Mind blowing. These days, pushing 50 and these guys are still #1 on my list. No need for help from the friends. David, Roger, Nick, Richard and sometimes Sid take me there. Close your eyes and ride.

it was said by the band that they provide the audience with a soundtrack to accompany the visuals on stage. after 4 shows, 88 in Toronto and 3 shows in 94 at earls court. that is exactly what i experienced. thank you for the entertaining nights.

The first time I listened to this song I was 16 years old.
And it was the 70’s so I was on, let’s just call it a controlled substance.
In that altered state, with my eyes closed, with the references to the ocean, and with the sonar sound.
To me the song made me feel like I was riding in a sub.
And just before the 3rd verse when the tempo increased, it felt like the sub surfaced and pooped up out of the water.
I can’t be the only person that thinks this song is a sub ride brilliantly put to music.

I get why so many consider this Floyd's finest moment. i agree. Its as close to transcendent as I've heard rock music get, a true epic. They made many fine songs afterwards but nothing ever touched as high as ECHOES. ANIMALS or THE WALL are intimate examinations of hell, not heaven.

Its also forever linked to the end of 2001 now for me (Stanley Kubrick's finest moment). They fit perfectly; both are about evolution, climbing towards the light slowly but surely, recognizing the other person as yourself (wink wink).

The long ambient section of screaming guitar gulls is the depths of the abyss before the dawning light arrives with that triumphant ringing guitar line that sounds like bells at dawn. Consciousness expands & its back to full wakefulness, lucid dreaming unhindered by false beliefs or rules (no one makes me close my eyes), just onward and upward higher & higher, as far as we can go.

Spiral out, keep going

Listening to their music and trying to understand its meaning and the feelings they evoked hasn't stopped after all this years.
I am just thankful to this remarkable musicians for their contribution to the development of my own creativity and imagination.
Just seat down comfortable, put on some headsets, close your eyes and enjoy the ride.

Echoes is to music what Monet's water lillies are to painting. Simply put, it is a masterful composition of beautiful melodies coupled with profound deep lyrics. The beginning drop is the start of life and the serene ending is the slow inevitable conclusion. If you own an 8 track player or boom box you should definitely crank it up and enjoy the ride. Pink Floyd rocks!!!!!!!!!!!

When music makes me see colors and pictures like an exhibition on my wall of feelings and moods....than that is a new dimension,and it leads me through the unknown ...and that's the pure beauty of being one with music...and I have to agree with you Enri...Pink Floyd and the norvegian band Motorpsycho are the two bands that takes me to music trips with their songs. Check out Motorpsycho's albums like Heavy metal fruit,Roadwork and songs like Starhammer,Gullible Travail, The wheel,The golden core,

For many years I've wondered what most of Pink Floyd's song mean, especially 'Echoes', but as of late I've come to figure out what it means. My Philosophy/History teacher loves Pink Floyd and he told me that most of their songs include Philosophy. The meaning of 'Echoes' is simply life in general. Listen to it a few times and you will understand as well. (:

The two bands that can make me feel the sounds are Pink Floyd, and Motorpsycho... Enjoy ;) some of their songs are amazing, like The Golden Core, Radiance Frequency, Gullible Travails.... and many others

When I first read the lyrics the "Ryme of the Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge was presented infront of me. In this out-sea sci\fi epic poem, a mariner catches two or three wedding guests by their hands and eyes and tells them the tale of how he shot down the Albatross and was stranded alone at sea in a boat of dead sailors. Those sailors, at a point, sort of come back to life every night and help him get ashore- their achoes remain. I don't know if it's a tribute to this masterpiece from 1798~ but it sure holds a remarkable resemblence.
When I die, I want to come back to life every night and listen to Pink Floyd :'(

It is really amazing to read all the comments, it proves that i am not the only one getting feelings i cant describe when listening to pink floyd generally and this song (echoes) particularly.
The fact that many of us are here searching for the true meanings of this lovely song proves how great pink floyd is, think about it, how many songs have you listened to?? quite many for sure, BUT it is songs like echoes, time, us and them among other pink floyd songs that makes you think and wonder about the message of these songs. Very few bands have reached this level of depth, it is as if they take you into new dimesnions that you never visited before.
God i love Pink Floyd

Man! At 7:23 into Echoes I always get the craziest goose bumps! These guys are whitest black folks around!The lyrics, while always critical and experimental, have a rather nihilistic feel to them, that represented their generation's existential angst perfectly. Alienation, fear, greed, separation, loss...you name it, they play it. Notice there isn't much room for love and empathy in their songs. Rather, its perversion (Arnold Layne) Madness (Brain Damage) Greed (money) the list goes on. It's all rather introspective, hence the existential melancholy that people love to listen to. In a word...it's 'masturbation'. I try to make sure I listen to them twice a day ;)

Agree completely with what you said about listening to Pink Floyd when one is exiting this mortal coil. I have long thought that, when I'm on my deathbed, I want headphones strapped on playing through Pink Floyd's entire discography, beginning to end. Just loop it, and don't stop until I'm gone. They say hearing is the last sense to go. If that is so, I want to drift away on the strains of Gilmour's guitar sorcery, and Wright's keyboard magic.