Shine on you crazy diamond (part I-V) Lyrics - Pink Floyd

For a very long time, Wish You Were Here was my all time favorite song by Pink Floyd. But after actually listening to this song several times all the way through, I've come to the point where this is easily one of my most favorite songs by anyone, and it's competing against my favorite Zep tune. Either way, I think this song is just a brilliant masterpiece, and it pains me to know that I wasn't alive to be one of the first to hear it.

@Song about Syd- I think he did. When the band was touring the album, Syd Barrett showed up to one of their sound checks while they were playing the song and none of them recognized him, him being very overweight and balding. Once they realized it was him, it brought Waters to tears. They asked him how he liked it and he said that it sounded a bit old. then he started trying to brush his teeth by jumping up and down. Im not sure if they ever told him while he was there that he was the subject.

You have to wonder if Syd Barrett ever knew the Floyd was refering to him as the Crazy Diamond. If you pay attention the whole album contains this same thematic approach. Welcome to the Machine, Have a Cigar, songs about the pitfalls of sucess & stardom. Drugs surely played a part but it was all too much for Syd, what started out as fun became all to serious I believe for Syd.

Wish you Were Here might be the band's lament for their band-mate, but I think Syd was content to be where he chose to be - until he passed away recently. Having mixed feelings if it was "right" for Pink Floyd to dwell on Syd in their music, but no doubt they wrote and performed some of their best efforts on DSOTM and WYWH.

this song has to be the most inspirational song i have ever heard it describes the diffirence between sanity and insanity exactly what i went through and going through like when i was young i would just not give a f*** and shine but now i hear distand voices and laughter somtimes my eyes even trick me to see somthing thats there but see it as somthing else now all i want to do is shine once more and be the fun loving person i used to be

Im a Latino born and raised in the Streets of South East San Diego str8 hoodlum (not now of coure grew up and out of it) luckily i was bussed out for school and met some pretty crazy whiteboys and girls. One day being a jerk i snatched someones headphones and they were listening to Dark Side of the Moon Breath and it changed my look on music. I begged for copies of all there music once i got the wall it was mind blowing i became a Pink Floyd a holic and wanted to know as much about the lead singer "pink " lol i can really say that this music and otheres out there got me out of the hood mentality and really made me use my head and think. too bad i was unable to experiance them live but being born in 79 it was tough.Although i did see the Imax lazer show of Dark but still i missed out

Nothing more meaningful that these words.. all the kind of imaginations was focused when Pink Floyd wrote this song .. how we are living this life, it's a lie! .. just few people discovered it! and went to discover the secret of it... that is how i can explain it!! i know more people do.. and i also know that other people explain it in another way..

This song is under played on the airwaves, yes due to it's length but it was definitely what cemented my love for the band and their music. I like listening to all 9 parts together using a fader to bring up the beginning of part 6 including the wind noise from the conclusion of Wish You Were Here.
Dark Side of the Moon might been their best selling album (and I love it) but IMO "Wish You Were Here" is probably their greatest album and Shine On You Crazy Diamond their greatest song.

The first concert I ever saw in my life was in Chicago on Father's day 1978 and it was Pink Floyd. The show started at dusk and looked just like the album cover with the power station. It was the most unbelievable sight and sound ever. You couldn't have asked for more memorable moment. And when they played this song it put you in a mind set that needed no drugs. And 32 years later it's just as good.

The first time i heard this song i didn't really like it so i hit the next button to listen to the next song on the Echoes CD (Time).

But after going back and listening to it, its easily one of my favorite Pink Floyd Songs along with
Time
Money
Comfortably Numb
Wish You Were Here
and Another Brick in the Wall

There are so many reasons to love this song... and Floyd has so many songs to love. I think the thing I love most about this song is the way it starts quietly and builds and builds taking one deeper and deeper into a sweet relaxing melancholy groove.

I think the band could not have paid better homage to Syd Barrett "that painter, piper and martyr."

This is some of Pink Floyd's best work. It's underrated but it is perhaps one of Floyd's best songs to date. A 14 minute long masterpiece is what it is.