"Remember when you were young?" "You shone like the sun." "Shine on, you crazy diamond" "Now there's a look in your eyes" "Like black holes in the sky" "Shine on, you crazy diamond" "You were caught in the crossfire" "Of childhood and stardom," "Blown on the steel breeze" "Come on you target for faraway laughter;" "Come on you stranger, you legend," "You martyr, and shine" "You reached for the secret too soon" "You cried for the moon" "Shine on, you crazy diamond" "Threatened by shadows at night" "And exposed in the light" "Shine on, you crazy diamond" "Well, you wore out your welcome" "With random precision" "Rode on the steel breeze" "Come on you raver, you seer of visions;" "Come on you painter, you piper," "You prisoner, and shine" "Nobody knows where you are," "How near or how far" "Shine on, you crazy diamond" "Pile on many more layers" "And I'll be joining you there" "Shine on, you crazy diamond" "And we'll bask in the shadow" "Of yesterday's triumph" "And sail on the steel breeze" "Come on you boy child, you winner and loser" "Come on you miner for truth and delusion," "And shine." "Into the distance, a ribbon of black" "Stretched to the point of no turning back" "A flight of fancy on a windswept field" "Standing alone my senses reeled" "A fatal attraction holding me fast, how" "Can I escape this irresistible grasp?" "Can't keep my mind from the circling skies" "Tongue-tied and twisted Just anearth-bound misfit, I" "Ice is forming on the tips of my wings" "Unheeded warnings I thought I thought of everything" "No navigator to find my way home" "Unladened, empty and turned to stone" "A soul in tension that's learning to fly" "Condition grounded but determined to try" "Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies" "Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I" "Above the planet on a wing and a prayer" "My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air," "Across the clouds I see my shadow fly" "Out of the corner of my watering eye" "A dream unthreatened by the morning light" "Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night" "There's no sensation to compare with this" "Suspended animation, A state of bliss" "Can't keep my mind from the circling skies" "Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I" "Good Evening" "Lets straight on and This is call "High Hopes" "Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young" "In a world of magnets and miracles" "Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary" "The ringing of the division bell had begun" "Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway" "Do they still meet there by the Cut" "There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps" "Running before times took our dreams away" "Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground" "To a life consumed by slow decay" "The grass was greener" "The light was brighter" "When friends surrounded" "The nights of wonder" "Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us" "To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side" "Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again" "Dragged by the force of some inner tide" "At a higher altitude with flag unfurled" "We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world" "Encumbered forever by desire and ambition" "There's a hunger still unsatisfied" "Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon" "Though down this road we've been so many times" "The grass was greener" "The light was brighter" "The taste was sweeter" "The nights of wonder" "With friends surrounded" "The dawn mist glowing" "The water flowing" "The endless river" "Forever and ever" "Her love rains down on me as easy as the breeze" "I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea" "I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire" "We were spinning into darkness;" "and the earth was on fire" "She could take it back, she might take it back some day" "So I spy on her, I have lied to her, I make promises I cannot keep" "Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep" "And I make her prove her love for me, I take all that I can take" "And I push her to the limit to see if she will break" "She might take it back, she could take it back some day" "Now I had seen the warnings, screaming from all sides" "It's easy to ignore them God knows I've tried" "All of this temptation, you know it turned my faith to lies" "Until I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide" "She Could take it back, she will take it back some day" "She Could take it back, she will take it back some day" "She will take it back;" "She will take it back some day" "Where were you when I was burned and broken" "While the days slipped by from my window watching" "Where were you" "When I was hurt and I was helpless" "Because the things you say" "And the things you do surround me" "While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words" "Dying to believe in what you heard" "I was staring straight into the shining sun" "Lost in thought" "And lost in time" "While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted" "Outside the rain" "Fell dark and slow" "While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime" "I took a heavenly ride through our silence" "I knew the moment had arrived" "For killing the past and coming back to life" "I took a heavenly ride through our silence" "I knew the waiting had begun" "And headed straight into the shining sun" "The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land." "Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:" "A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers," "But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking" "He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise" "In his youth or a dream, he can't be precise" "He's chained forever to a world that's departed" "It's not enough, it's not enough" "His blood has frozen and curdled with fright" "His knees have trembled and given way in the night" "His hand has weakened at the moment of truth" "His step has faltered" "One world" "One soul" "Time pass" "The river rolls" "And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication" "And silent replies that swirl invitation" "Flow dark and troubled to an oily sea" "A grim intimation of what is to be" "There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night" "And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight" "And silence that speaks so much louder that word" "Of promises broken" "There's a silence surroundiing me" "I can't seem to think straight" "I'll sit in the corner" "Where no one will bother me" "I think I should speak now (why won't you talk to me)" "But I can't seem to speak now (you never talk to me)" "My words won't come out right (what are you thinking)" "I feel like I'm drowning (What are you feeling)" "I'm feeling weak now (why won't you talk to me)" "But I can't show my weakness (you never talk to me)" "I sometimes wonder (what are you thinking)" "Where do we go from here (what are you feeling)" "Why won't you talk to me (I feel like I'm drowning)" "You never talk to me (you know I can't breathe now)" "What are you thinking (we're going nowhere)" "What are you feeling (we're going nowhere)" "Why won't you talk to me" "You never talk to me" "What are you thinking" "Where do we go from here" "We don't need no education" "We don't need no thought control" "No dark sarcasm in the classroom" "Teachers leave them kids alone" "Hey!" "Teachers!" "Leave them kids alone!" "All in all it's just another brick in the wall." "All in all you're just another brick in the wall." "We don't need no education" "We don't need no thought control" "No dark sarcasm in the classroom" "Teachers leave them kids alone" "Hey!" "Teachers!" "Leave those kids alone!" "All in all it's just another brick in the wall." "All in all you're just another brick in the wall." ""I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."" ""I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us... very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."" "Breathe, breathe in the air." "Don't be afraid to care." "Leave but don't leave me." "Look around and choose your own ground." "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, 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 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." "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." "So you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking" "And 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 naught or half a page of scribbled lines" "Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way" "The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say" "Home, home again" "I like to be here when I can" "When I come home cold 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." ""And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind." "Why should I be frightened of dying?" "There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."" "Money, get away." "Get a good job with more pay and you're okay." "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 football team." "Money, get back." "I'm all right 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 high-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 raise it's no surprise that they're giving none 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." "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" "I've got things on my mind." "For the 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 forebodings 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." "So," "So you think you can tell" "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" "Hello," "Is there anybody in there?" "Just nod if you can hear me" "Is there anyone at home?" "Come on now" "I hear you're feeling down" "Well, I can ease your pain" "And get you on your feet again" "Relax" "I'll need some information first" "Just the basic facts" "Can you show me where it hurts" "There is no pain, you are receding" "A distant ship's smoke on the horizon" "You are only coming through in waves" "Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying" "When I was a child I had a fever" "My hands felt just like two balloons" "Now I've got that feeling once again" "I can't explain, you would not understand" "This is not how I am" "I have become comfortably numb" "I have become comfortably numb" "O.K." "Just a little pin prick" "There'll be no more ...aaaaaaaah!" "But you might feel a little sick" "Can you stand up?" "I do belive it's working, good" "That'll keep you going, through the show" "Come on it's time to go." "There is no pain, you are receding" "A distant ship's smoke on the horizon" "You are only coming through in waves" "Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying" "When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse" "Out of the corner of my eye" "I turned to look but it was gone" "I cannot put my finger on it now" "The child is grown The dream is gone" "I have become comfortably numb" "Run, run, run, run" "You better make your face up in Your favorite disguise" "With your button down lips and your Roller blind eyes" "With your empty smile And your hungry heart" "Feel the bile rising from your guilty past" "With your nerves in tatters When the cockleshell shatters" "And the hammers batter Down the door" "You better run" "Run, run, run, run" "You better run all day And run all night" "And keep your dirty feelings Deep inside." "And if your Takin' your Girlfriend out tonight" "You better park the car Well out of sight" "'Cos if they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks" "They're gonna send you back to mother In a cardboard box" "You better run"