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Capt Lightning said:
Remember when you were young
You shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond.

Pink Floyd
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Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Love this track. A tribute to Syd Barrett, former bandmate. The story of how Syd, having become a recluse, reappeared is, I think, amazing:

On June 5, 1975, in a moment worthy of a Hollywood scriptwriter, Syd Barrett, unrecognised, shuffled into Abbey Road while Floyd were listening to a playback of the track.

“At first we thought he was someone who worked at the studio,” said Mason. “Nobody recognised him.”

The slim, elfin Syd of 1967 was long gone. Barrett had shaved his head and eyebrows bald, was heavily overweight and clutching a plastic carrier bag. Some eyewitnesses recall him asking when it was time for him to play guitar; others remember him jumping up and down while furiously brushing his teeth. Both Waters and Wright were supposedly moved to tears.

‘Sydney Barrett’ breezed out of Pink Floyd’s life as quickly as he’d arrived. None of them ever saw him again. Their tribute became the cornerstone of Wish You Were Here, an album that, despite Waters’s disgruntlement, only compounded Floyd’s position as one of the biggest bands in the world."

♥️

https://www.loudersound.com/feature...t-and-the-moment-that-moved-the-band-to-tears
 
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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

From "Comfortably numb" - Pink Floyd. One of my all time favourite songs.
 
Well, she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die tryin'
She had one little promise
She was gonna keep
 
"If you don't like me brother that's okay
I ain't gonna let it wreck my day
I keep stylin', smilin'
Handin' out the sunshine,
Damn, it feels good to be me!"

Uncle Kracker --- Good To Be Me
 
"Well I'll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall"

Joan Baez
 
That night we fell in love
Beneath the stars above
That was a lovely summer night
Remember then, then, then, then, then

From the song "Remember Then" by The Earls
 
I shuffled through the modes of bad behaviour
And hankered for the desolated dawn
I couldn't cope with yet another saviour
To steer me from the way that I was born..

From "You're the why" , Robbie Williams tribute to Ian Dury.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I shuffled through the modes of bad behaviour
And hankered for the desolated dawn
I couldn't cope with yet another saviour
To steer me from the way that I was born..

From "You're the why" , Robbie Williams tribute to Ian Dury.
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oh wow! Ian Drury! One of the albums I still have!

 
You and I
Long to live like the wind upon the water
If we close our eyes, we'll maybe realize
There's more to life than what we have known
And I can't believe I've spent so long
Living lies I knew were wrong inside
I've just begun to see the light

Queensryche - Is There Anybody Listening
 

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