Wish You Were Here
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Songs:

01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part I - V)

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 cross-fire of childhood and

Stardom, blown on the steel breeze

Come on you target for far away laughter, come on you

Stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret to soon,

You cried for the moon

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!

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine

Where have you been?

It's alright we know were you've been

You've been in the pipeline, filling in time,

Provided with toys and scouting for boys,

You bought a guitar to punish your ma,

And you didn't like school,

And you know you're nobody's fool

So welcome to the machine

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine

What did you dream?

It's alright we told you what to dream

You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar

He always ate in the steak bar

He loved to drive in his Jaguar

So welcome to the machine

Come in here, dear boy have a cigar

You're gonna go far, fly high

You're never gonna die,

You're gonna make it if you try;

They're gonna love you

Well I've always had a deep respect

And I mean that most sincerely

The band is just fantastic,

That is really what I think

Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy,

We call it ride in the Gravy Train

We're just knocked out,

We heard about the sell out

You gotta get an album out

You owe it to the people.

We're so happy we can hardly count

Everybody else is just green,

Have you seen the chart

It's a hell of a start,

It could be made into a monster

If we all pull together as a team

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy,

We call it riding the Gravy Train

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?

And did they get you to trade you heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees?

Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?

And 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

Nobody knows were 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 minor for truth and delusion, and shine!