| Wish you were here Lyrics Artist(Band):Pink Floyd
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? 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. If you find some error in Wish you were here Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Sara for submitting the lyrics. Review about Wish you were here meanings | Reviewer: breetaknee | 6/10/09 there is multiple meanings behind every floyd song, but i honestly dissagree that this song is about the band members losing themselves in their fame. thats just retarded, no offense. but who cares what its about, everyone has their own meaning behind this song, and thats all that matters. fix | Reviewer: josue | 4/12/09 this song is actually about themselves. After the fame they had received from "dark side of the moon" many of the band became somewhat strained from what their music actually meant to them, and life in general. Basically, fame got to them, and they needed to find themselves again.David Gilmour has stated this in the "Making of" of DSOTM. Wow | Reviewer: KoR-tAnI | 3/25/09 This is an amaizing song. It's about Syd Barrett,,one of the founders of Pink Floyd who had a drug induced break down a few years after the band got started. The band wrote it because they wished he was still with the band. It's sad that Syd had to leave the band. In reality...Pink Floyd wouldn't be what they are today with out Syd. We love and miss you Syd:) Wish you were here~ | Reviewer: Canjica | 2/22/09 This song is soothing when your feeling down or if your deep in thought about things. This song means so much to me and the lyrics really touch me on a emotional level. Makes me wish the one i love with all my heart was with me right now... This song is a masterpeice and should never be forgotten or re-made ever as its perfect as is. um | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/6/09 It's a very beautiful song, I've gone through phases over the years, but it's always stayed at my #1 song. I don't think I would ever write such beautiful lyrics, nor sing them. The music is rather simple, but that adds to the effect, I guess. All in all, a beautiful song, that I think everyone should hear once in their life time. My view | Reviewer: philman15 | 10/30/08 "You think you know right and wrong, happiness from depression. Can you tell beauty from dullness? Friendship from an act? Are you giving up your heroes for people who are nothing to you? A real world from a fantasy where everything's great? The way your life was for a drastic change? Would you have been obscure for doing something you love and believe in, so you sold out for fame? I wish you were still the person you used to be. We were kindred spirits, going through the same daily grind, with the same concerns. I wish you were still my friend." The song has a lot of resonance with me because a lot of people think I could do great things in business, or medicine, but that's not what I want. I'm going to do what I love, even if it's not what anyone else wants me to do. just talking to oneself | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/24/08 To me this song is about the inner talking to oneself. It applies to anyone and one can have a very personal interpretation. Mine goes like this: "So, I think I know the difference between Good and Evil, happiness from sorrow, the beautiful from the irrelevant, friendship from hipocrisy. Or did I trade the things I believe for things society makes me believe in? Did I exchange going to war in living my life the way I dream for the "confort" of being the head of a family in a house where if winter I pay for hot air or if summer I pay for cold air. How I wish the real me was here, But me and "him" are just two souls trapped in the same body, year after year, living in the same old world where "We" find the same old fears over and over. I wish the "real" Me was here. No | Reviewer: Unanimous | 9/16/08 irony strikes in the oddest places yes, we are subjective and must register ambiguity and ambivalence based on our own experience and environmental influence but in my opinion and based on what I'm reading, many of you are missing the point here: "Did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts?" how are you remembering your loved ones? are they heroes in your head, or are they haunting you? "So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skies from pain." this plays more into the ambiguity factor, but still has two very distinct meanings - personally, my first impression is skepticism towards the loved one's ability to see that everything is inherently harmful and that pain must reign above all forms of happiness... however, the way in which he phrases the question literally asks if one can see the good in things that we believe to be negative/evil I think this song is both a lament of a lost one and a wish that the lost one could have or should have been happier and less attuned to what "they" told him was bad... a call to the inner self, an existential question asked in the light of losing someone dear... but obviously this song (the second stanza specifically) is more complex than I can possibly explain here ironically, you've all posted the same thing about you're own lost heroes... or ghosts sorry... I'll take my lead role in that cage, now In Love | Reviewer: anonymous | 8/29/08 We can't be but the love is very much there. He is trying to get this all together to play and sing on his guitar. I believe in him so much that I am helping every way I can. It tears my heart out to hear Wish You Were Here because I love him so much. We are two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl. WISH YOU WERE HERE. to each his own | Reviewer: The Graduate | 7/29/08 Poetry opens the doors of percepetion -- Jim Morrison To me this piece is about a lost love... my lost love... see poetry is not about the author's intent... its what it means to you... which emotions and memories it brings out for you... and I wish more than anything that she were here with me now Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 Review the song Wish you were here The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Pink Floyd" Music | |
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