Pink Floyd - Lyrics

‘73

Breathe, breathe in the air

Don't be afraid to care

Leave but don't leave me

Look around and choose your own ground

For long you live and high you fly

And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry

And all you touch and all you see

Is all your life will ever be.

Run, Run rabbit run

Dig that hole, forget the sun

And when at last the work is done

Don't sit down it's time to dig another one

For long you live and high you fly

But only if you ride the tide

And balanced on the biggest wave

You race towards an early grave.

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand 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 behing 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 behing 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 is gone the song is over

thought I'd something more to say.

Breathe (reprise)

Home, home again

I like to be here when I can

When I come home coldened 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.

Money, get away

Get a good job with more pay and you're 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 footbal team.

Money, get back

I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack

Money, it's a hit

Don't give me that do goody good bullshit

I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling 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, away, away

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

And 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.

The lunatic is on the grass

The lunatic is on the grass

Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs

Got to keep the loonies on the path.

The lunatic is in the hall

The lunatics are in my hall

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor

And every day the paper boy brings more.

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon

And if there is no room upon the hill

And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

The lunatic is in my head

The lunatic is in my head

You raise the blade, you make the change

You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane.

You lock the door

And throw away the key

There's someone in my head but it's not me

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear

You shout and no one seems to hear

And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

All that you touch

All that you see

All that you taste

All you feel

All that you love

All that you hate

All you distrust

All you save

All that you give

All that you deal

All that you buy

beg, borrow or steal

All you create

All you destroy

All that you do

All that you say

All that you eat

everyone you meet

All that you slight

everyone you fight

All that is now

All that is gone

All that's to come

and everything under the sun is in tune

but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

‘74

Oh my girl sitting in the sun

go buy candy and a current bun

I like good to see you

lay flat

Oh talk talk sweet

please just fuck with me

please no feeling afraid

It's true sun shinihg very bright

it's you I'm gonna love tonight

icecream tastes good in the afternoon

icecream tastes good if you eat it soon

Don't touch me child

please, you know you drive me wild

please, you know I'm feeling frail

Don't try another cat

don't go a lot like that you must know

I'm very very bad

Got a fliptop pack of cigarettes in the pocket

feeling good at the top shopping at shops

she's walking in the sunshine town

feeling very cool

but the butchers and the bakers

in the supermarket stores

getting everything she wants

from the supermarket store

Apples and oranges

apples and oranges

Cornering meekly she trips up sweetly

to meet the people

she's on time again

and then, I catch her by the eye

then stop and have to think

what a funny thing to do

'cause I'm feeling very thin

I love she

she loves me

see you, see you, see you

Thought you might like to know

I'm a lorrydriver man

she's on the run

down by the riverside

feeding ducks in the afternoon time

It would be so nice to leave some time

Everybody wakes and in the morning

hot tea can't stop yarning

pass the butter please

have you ever read the Daily Standard

reading all about the plane that's landed

upside down

Everyone knows what I do today

there can be no other way

but I would just like to say

Everybody cares about the weather

but everybody should know better

what a waste of time

everybody lives beneath the ceiling

living out a dream that sends them reeling