Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd cover) Lyrics
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from rain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
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?
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
Of how we found the same old fears
Wish you were here
Why has no-one commented on this? This is one the the most beautiful songs ever, and this is an amazing cover of it.
i agree... they did an unbelievable job with this song. it is absolutely beautiful, the song draws you in and doesn't let go until it is finished touching you. their cover of it seems almost dreamlike to me... the way the piano and the vocals mix are perfect. everyone should download this song....
IF you think this version's good listen to the Floyd original...it blew my world...
yeah it pissed me off how i listened to wywh by PF before hearing this one. i just like the singing so much better by david gilmour
It's hard to make a bad song out of this well written piece of music, kudos: gilmour and waters.
Radiohead pulled it off pretty well. Pink Floyd is still my favorite and all time greatest band but Radiohead does the song justice. From me, that's saying a lot, as I am a huge fan of Pink Floyd and all of their work. Any jaded fan would spit in the face of any artist who even attempted a cover of such briliance.
Given the true meaning of the sone (Being about the loss of Syd Barett) I don't know if it's right for it to be disected by Radiohead fans, but either way, It's delivery is entirely diferent. Not enough desperation, but I don't think anything can match to the original.
Thom fucked the lyrics up toward the end. He sings "what have we found, the same old tears"
This isn't realy a Radiohead song, it was done by Sparklehorse. Thom just sang it over the phone for the recording.
But anyway, one of the best songs ever written covered by one of the best bands of the past decade (Sparklehorse). A++
As for the meaning, it's a very deep song about a guy missing his good freind (who's locked up in a mental institution 'cause he took to much LSD (you should here Syd Barett's solo stuff)). Of coarse every one knows that.
I think they did an amazing job with the setup. I won't lie--it certainly helps that the song itself is already fantastic and the lyrics are incredible, but Sparklehorse (& Thom) did a fantastic rendition.
To me, Radiohead is the Pink Floyd of my generation. Both Radiohead and Pink Floyd put alot of thought and meaning into their music, which is a rare quality for a band these days.