 Wish You Were Here (1975) [ larger cover art ] |
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So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade, 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?
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year
Running over the same old ground, what have we found?
The same old fears, wish you were here
| Bushpig (Gympie, Australia) | Posted: May 13, 2013 - 00:15 Awesome. I just have to visit Alaska one day. |
| mojcamojca77 (Idrija) | Posted: May 13, 2013 - 00:13 Lazarus wrote: Everybody in my church loves this song... I can really understand them!  |
| teleskialaska (Alaska) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 14:00 We actually painted the lyrics on our back yard fence. Great converstion piece |
| Sweet_Virginia | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 13:57 I have a flashback of my good friend sitting on his bed teaching my 3 year old how to play this on a guitar (along with anarchy in the UK). A great time was had by all. |
| MilesW (Earth (Currently Germany)) | Posted: Mar 13, 2013 - 00:11 Perhaps the best campfire song ever!  |
| Pedro1874 (Newton-le-Willows, England) | Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 07:43 2174 tens mmmmmm -  verrrrry interesting! |
| ceicilbee | Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 07:32 average rating says it all... |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 07:31 Ok, dammit, Bill, I was on my way out of the house. How am I gonna leave now, I ask you? How? How?? |
| Grammarcop (You want an E Class? We got 'em!) | Posted: Feb 19, 2013 - 16:46 My 13-year-old daughter strolled through the kitchen singing this the other day. "We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fishbowl Year after year ... " It was a moment tinged with both pride and pain. |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Feb 09, 2013 - 16:01 unclehud wrote:  The album cover art gave me the willies for a long time. I stared at that guy on fire for hours and hours and hours. I know he wore protective gear, but what about the OTHER guy?Dude, THEY'RE ON FIRE. Yeah stunt men, yadda, yadda, yadda, but they allowed themselves to be SET ON FIRE.  . . . That's one small step for stuntmen . . . |
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: Feb 09, 2013 - 15:24 The album cover art gave me the willies for a long time. I stared at that guy on fire for hours and hours and hours. I know he wore protective gear, but what about the OTHER guy?Dude, THEY'RE ON FIRE. Yeah stunt men, yadda, yadda, yadda, but they allowed themselves to be SET ON FIRE. |
| Proclivities (Paris of the Piedmont) | Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 06:05  |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 08:34 Everybody in my church loves this song... |
| kysmet (Central Florida) | Posted: Jan 05, 2013 - 19:17 Cynaera wrote: Sometimes I just fall into a Pink Floyd mood and don't come out of it for weeks. I think this is one of those times.   Miss you. |
| kysmet (Central Florida) | Posted: Jan 05, 2013 - 19:14 fuzzy wrote:  Brilliant! |
| chillinthemost (Northern Germany) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 06:08 One of the alltime greatest songs!!! Forget the mainstream stuff from nowadays! This ist true music. |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 10:31 This never, ever gets old, the very definition of timeless. |
| JIan (Phoenix, AZ, USA) | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 10:30 nagsheadlocal wrote: Oh, no, not again . . . I normally try not to be insulting, but....    |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 10:29 It's my mom's birthday today. I wish she was here...... |
| justin4kick (The Netherlands) | Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 06:48 Last brilliant Pink Floyd album. After this it went down hill. |
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 20:38 Nothing can compare... NOTHING! |
| alexg1 | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 06:50 Rolling Stones — Heaven The Black Keys — Little Black Submarines Pearl Jam — Alive Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here This is probably the greatest sequence I heard on any radio station ever |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 06:50 nagsheadlocal wrote: Oh, no, not again . . . Here, not enough Pink Floyd songs! |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 06:48 nagsheadlocal wrote: Oh, no, not again . . .  Ummmm... okie... |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 06:47 Oh, no, not again . . . |
| stevendejong | Posted: Oct 07, 2012 - 04:23 cubaninlondon wrote: I've been a Floyd fan for the better part of twenty-five, twenty-six years. Yet, this song and the album are the only ones that make me take out my old photos and reminisce upon those times gone by (I'm forty now). When I first got this record, I had it on tape (remember them?) and it was my mate and I that paid for the cassette together. We both got it into our heads to record every single album Floyd had ever released. This was very difficult, especially in mid-80s Havana, Cuba, because of the censorship of all things English. I still remember the first time my mate and I sat down (in his house in Old Havana) to listen to this record. It was a high-quality tape and when this song kicked off, we both turned up the volume thinking that his (battered) stereo had gone wrong. Imagine our surprise when Gilmour's acoustic guitar came in all of sudden!  I stopped seeing my mate when I started uni but ever since, every time this tune comes on, I have to stop whatever I'm doing and allow myself to be transported to a time and a place when rock'n'roll was my saviour. By the way, it works exactly the same with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", my favourite guitar solo ever.A Cuban In London. Thanks for this post, and may it demonstrate that Bill even takes the time to read the forums.Such a great experience, this radio. |
| cerve86 (Netherlands) | Posted: Oct 07, 2012 - 04:18 That's why I love you Radio Paradise :) |
| Webfoot (Eugene, Oregon) | Posted: Oct 05, 2012 - 11:34 Cynaera wrote: Sometimes I just fall into a Pink Floyd mood and don't come out of it for weeks. I think this is one of those times. Wish you were here. |
| Alexandra (PNW) | Posted: Sep 15, 2012 - 17:29 lkovathana wrote: Alexandra's photo below — from "Enemy of the State" with Will Smith and Gene Hackman? I took it myself, in the PNW. |
| midreaming | Posted: Sep 05, 2012 - 15:18 'nice plea, wish you were here. best part i think is how it implies the person was actually once here, which is more than I can say for the broader mass of people on this planet. quite a compliment then really, don't you think.. not only 'hey glad you made it! but 'hey, you were so dmm good, I wish you'd come back |
| rockpommel16 (saarland vs. netherland ;-)) | Posted: Sep 05, 2012 - 15:09 ....laugh a lot bout THIS posting at the same time...... ..........i´m with you,brother.....hehe.... |
| rockpommel16 (saarland vs. netherland ;-)) | Posted: Sep 05, 2012 - 15:06  |
| fuzzy (GWN) | Posted: Sep 05, 2012 - 15:06 |
| ajlept (Athens, GA) | Posted: Sep 03, 2012 - 22:28 Gotta believe the "1" votes are from those that feel this song has been overplayed or just don't get it. If it has been overplayed, then we must blame the band (who made such a wonderful song), or the ones who do get it. |
| lkovathana (Chicago, Illinois) | Posted: Sep 03, 2012 - 22:22 Alexandra's photo below — from "Enemy of the State" with Will Smith and Gene Hackman? |
| Alexandra (PNW) | Posted: Sep 03, 2012 - 16:10  |
| globecroqueur (Pau) | Posted: Sep 02, 2012 - 04:14 Pink Floyd's music will live for so many years.. never fed up listen it ! |
| alexg1 | Posted: Aug 15, 2012 - 06:05 Pure magic |
| Otomi (La orilla de la civilización) | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 17:56 misterbearbaby wrote: Pink Floyd is one of the few great cultural bulwarks, now regarded as 'in the past' (actually, upstream in time) that keep our so-called society from sliding down the shallow plastic money trench, caroming over the edge of the flatworld, and plunging into a lake of fire in deepest pit in hell. Yes, the US Constitution gives us the right to believe in any wacko magic we want; my system is to believe that The Floyd is what keeps us out of hell. I give thanks for their existence every day I am alive. Amen to that, Mr. Bear! |
| bendame | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 17:37 One of the most over played and over rated song of this genius group. |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 12:44 romeotuma wrote: Love this profound song... wish all of you were still here... Dude, I'M STILL HERE (at work). And after 37 years, I still get spooked when that windstorm shows up at the end. You'd think I'd be used to it by now... |
| mistabird (frei republik allgäu) | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 12:44 dieser song entstand durch zufälliges geklimper auf der gitarre, aber echt schön |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 12:41 Let's see what the PSD button brings up . . . |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 19:36 Wish you were here, Buster... miss you, brother... |
| stunix (Narrowboat nr Caen Locks) | Posted: Jul 04, 2012 - 17:02
:) |
| cubaninlondon (London) | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 05:41 I've been a Floyd fan for the better part of twenty-five, twenty-six years. Yet, this song and the album are the only ones that make me take out my old photos and reminisce upon those times gone by (I'm forty now). When I first got this record, I had it on tape (remember them?) and it was my mate and I that paid for the cassette together. We both got it into our heads to record every single album Floyd had ever released. This was very difficult, especially in mid-80s Havana, Cuba, because of the censorship of all things English. I still remember the first time my mate and I sat down (in his house in Old Havana) to listen to this record. It was a high-quality tape and when this song kicked off, we both turned up the volume thinking that his (battered) stereo had gone wrong. Imagine our surprise when Gilmour's acoustic guitar came in all of sudden! I stopped seeing my mate when I started uni but ever since, every time this tune comes on, I have to stop whatever I'm doing and allow myself to be transported to a time and a place when rock'n'roll was my saviour. By the way, it works exactly the same with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", my favourite guitar solo ever.A Cuban In London. |
| Grammarcop (i've successfully infiltrated the 1% without being detected!) | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 04:45 According to the story I heard on the CBC recently, this is the only Pink Floyd song that had the lyrics written before the music. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 02, 2012 - 21:16 Miss you, Buster... rock on brother... wish you were here... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 09:24 Cynaera wrote: Sometimes I just fall into a Pink Floyd mood and don't come out of it for weeks. I think this is one of those times. Miss you, Ann... wish you were here... |
| philipr (France) | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 09:22 For sure this song could be 11 or more but, just a question : why often playing a so limited selection of our prefered singers ! RP, please help us to find back what we forgot |