Cymbaline Lyrics
the ravens all are watching from a vantage point nearby
aprehension creeping like a tube train up your spine
will the tight rope reach the end, will the final couplet rhyme
and it's high time, Cymbaline
please wake me
the ravens all are closing in, there's nowhere you can hide
your manager and agent are both busy on the phone
selling coloured photographs to magazines back home
and it's high time, Cymbaline
please wake me
the leaves are heavy' round your feet, your hear the thunder of the train
suddenly it strikes you that they're moving into range
and Doctor Strange is always changing size
and it's high time, Cymbaline
please wake me
I like how the final couplets don't rhyme (range/size), as predicted by the first verse.
One of my all time favs, from an under appreciated album. I do find it unfortunate that he chose the line about manager and agent busy on the phone.... It just immediately reminds me this is NOT a song about me and my experiences, but rather about rock stars and theirs. As I said, I love this song, but will always wish to change that one line, it ruins my personal interpretation.
Make it your song and spend a few minutes and change the line. The song will then be yours. It's not that hard
Make it your song and spend a few minutes and change the line. The song will then be yours. It's not that hard
I absolutely concur. The whole bit - "Your manager and agent Are both busy on the phone Selling coloured photographs To magazines back home" I wish those lines weren't in there. They are awkward & don't fit or jibe with the rest of the lyrical imagery.
I absolutely concur. The whole bit - "Your manager and agent Are both busy on the phone Selling coloured photographs To magazines back home" I wish those lines weren't in there. They are awkward & don't fit or jibe with the rest of the lyrical imagery.
the posted lyrics are wrong, im sure its this instead:
the path you tread is narrow and the drop is sheer and very high
that makes much more sense. excellent song! classic floyd!
this song portrays anxiety in a very colourful way. "lines converging where you stand" "ravens all are watching" "you hear the thunder of the train and suddenly it strikes you that youre moving into range" when one has anxiety, he feels as though the whole world's focus is on himself alone and he cannot escape. the woman in this song must have felt that the only way she could escape was to indulge in drugs or alcohol in order to feel more relaxed, to forget.
God, I love this song. Much more than Ibiza Bar, it has so much depth to it.
A lot like Ibiza Bar, now that I think about it. The themes are similar.
A cautionary tale warning a loved one of the world's dark side. Quintessential, and much better than Cat Stevens' Wild World...
Lott79, this is most plausible as it's from the soundtrack to the film More. A French film by Iranian producer Barbet Schroeder about the making of a heroin addict. The main character, Stefan, fresh from college, hitches from Germany to Paris, meets an American girl and they heads off to Ibiza, gets hooked on dope etc. in the hippie lifestyle and so on.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064694/
That probably why there's a track Ibiza Bar too!
Interesting link about the Dr Strange reference http://www.docstrange.com/dsssmuseum/pinkfloydac.asp
Also, the lyrics for both the album and movie version of Cymbaline can be fond here http://sites.google.com/site/pinkfloydlyrics/more
Another film, La vallée, also by Barbet, features many songs from Obscured By Clouds as it was the soundtrack album. The film, is also about sexual freedom and mind alteration (possibly by drug use) ... typical of the late 60's and early '70's and even up to today I guess. But better for its soundtrack than plot.
What's Cymbaline?
@HighwayStar Sounds like a woman's name or name of a muse.
@HighwayStar Sounds like a woman's name or name of a muse.
i agree dom, that is the actual line...
beautiful song...one of my favs...
Demau????? what does LIONS converging ....mean
its lines converging