| Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[LZIV:17012] If you examine the statement before the questions "So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain." I feel Waters is making a statement that Syd is so far gone that he doesn't even know where he is, then he goes on to taunt him with various questions asking Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Then he asks do you know what you have give up? Did they get you to trade Your 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? Then he goes on to say how I wish you were here (mentally) I might be way off but that's the way it reads to me. |
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| Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[fallen_flower:17011] I think you translation is a little too literal as Pink Floyd often used a full verse or sentence to say something quite simple. For example two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl... I take to mean two people in a generally unwinnable situation. I definitely agree that it is written about Syd, but I interpret the song to be a more general expression of emotion and questioning towards Syd and his situation, as most of the questions point back to the same simple question of why did you trade good for bad. The point is reinforced over and over to say I don't understand why you made that choice. | |
| Rod Stewart – I Was Only Joking Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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For me I has always interpreted this song as he was contemplating suicide (the person he is singing about not necessarily himself). The song is metaphor laden with disappointment, unfilled dreams, fears, and generally being misunderstood in every verse right up to the last verse. In the last verse is where he is saying... "Quietly now while I turn a page Act one is over without costume change" Nothing has changed and he is still stuck in this life which hasn't turned out the way he wanted. "The principal would like to leave the stage" He is the principal (metaphor for the main character in song) and he wants to end his life (leave the stage) "The crowd don't understand" How most people who want to commit suicide feel. |
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