Pink Floyd: Pulse

SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND

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 crossfire

Of childhood

And stardom

Blown on

The steel breeze

Come on

You target

For faraway

Laughter

Come on

You stranger

You legend

You martyr

And shine

You reached for

The secret

Too soon

You cried for the moon

Shine on

You crazy

Diamond

Threatened by

Shadows at night

Exposed in the light

Shine on

- You - You crazy

- Crazy diamond - 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

Nobody knows

Where 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

Sail on

The steel breeze

Come on

You boy child

You winner

And loser

Come on

You miner

For truth

And delusion

And shine

LEARNING TO FLY

Into the distance

A ribbon of black

Stretched to the point

Of no turning back

A flight of fancy

On a windswept field

Standing alone

My senses real

A fatal attraction

Is holding me fast

How

Can I escape

This irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes

From the circling skies

Tongue tied and twisted

Just an earth

Bound misfit

I

Ice is forming

On the tips of my wings

Unheeded warnings

I thought I thought

Of everything

No navigator

To find my way home

Unladened empty

Turned to stone

A soul in tension

Is learning to fly

Condition grounded

But determined to try

Can't keep my eyes

From the circling skies

Tongue tied and twisted

Just an earth

Bound misfit

I

Above the planet

On a wing and a prayer

My grubby halo

A vapour trail

In the empty air

Above the clouds

I see

My shadow fly

Out of the corner

Of my watering eye

A dream unthreatened

By the morning light

Could blow this soul right

Through the roof

Of the night

There's no sensation

To compare with this

Suspended animation

A state of bliss

Can't keep my mind

From the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted

Just an earth

Bound misfit

I

HIGH HOPES

Beyond the horizon

Of the place we lived

When we were young

In a world of

Magnets and miracles

Our thoughts strayed constantly

And without boundary

The ringing of the

Division bell

Had began

Along the long road

And on down

The causeway

Do they still meet

There by the cut?

There was a ragged band

That followed in our footsteps

Running before time

Took our dreams away

Leaving the myriad small creatures

Trying to tie

Us to the ground

To a life consumed

By slow decay

The grass was greener

The light was brighter

With friends surrounded

The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers

The bridges glowing

Behind us

To a glimpse of how green

It was on the other side

Steps taken forwards

But sleep-walking back again

Dragged by the force

Of some inner tide

At a higher altitude

With flag unfurled

We reached

The dizzy heights

Of that dreamed of world

Encumbered forever

By desire and ambition

There's a hunger

Still unsatisfied

Our weary eyes

Still stray to the horizon

Though down this road

We've been so many times