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Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no-one showed us to the land
And no-one knows the wheres or whys
But something stirs and something tries
Now starts to climb towards the light
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no-one calls us to move on
And no-one forces down our eyes
No-one speaks and no-one tries
No-one flies around the sun
Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no-one sings me lullabies
And no-one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky
| Easyrider (Catania,Sicily,Italy) | Posted: Jan 07, 2013 - 04:37 Trippy if you are on a floyd🐯🐒😌 | |
| darrio (Sydney, Australia) | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 19:26 One of those songs where you only need the first note to instantly know what it is. | |
| funkyalfonso (Vancouver Island) | Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 21:38 Does anyone remember a surfer movie called "Crystal Voyager" that used this track with their innovative "in the wave" photography? The movie was played with Jimi's Maui movie "Rainbow Bridge." | |
| linzie | Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 21:37 Just listened to this version the other day!!!!!!! The live version from Gilmours concert in Gdansk was godlike as well..wrights last show :(... | |
| Tteddo (Shapleigh, Maine US) | Posted: Aug 04, 2012 - 10:21 So I saw a documentary on this last week and the "sonar pings" are actually a normal piano run through a Hammond Leslie. | |
| elitry (Lafayette, IN) | Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 23:56 So, I really like this song, but I despise when it's played. I'm on EST, working to finish a thesis - which means late hours in a research lab on my own. There is something totally, totally creepy about the humpback whalesque squeals during the ethereal instrumental. My plea is for you to avoid playing it from midnight to 3 AM PST for the next two weeks - those be the witching hours over here! lol Thanks for motivating late night research with all of the other great music!  (btw, i think it's brilliant that someone created a devil pimp icon) | |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 02:56 Meddle was a highly-innovative album in its time, with its eclectic mix of soundscapes and styles. I never had a copy, sadly, but enjoyed it immensely when I visited friends houses to sit in the bedroom listening to LPs. This and Relics contained some of Floyd's most interesting and quirky music. The later stuff was pretty good, too, but 'harder' and cynical (with good reason). The early stuff was delightfully innocent, naive, dare I say 'fluffy'. Thanks for playing this track in full, though I can understand it pissing off some listeners, and can sympathise with them. As Joe Strummer said: F*ckin' long, innit? 8 from the laid-back Nottingham jury. | |
| shakitten | Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 02:49 I prefer the original, but this will do. This is my favorite from PF, and that's saying a lot. Pure genius. | |
| Photo-John (Nor Cal to SLC) | Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 18:55 Fuck * Yeah | |
| df1489 (Lake Palestine, Tyler Tx) | Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 18:53 moosedadday wrote: This brings back a funny memory. First time I played this song back in 70-something, I had the 33 1/3 LP but the turntable was set at 45. I was so stoned I didn't realize it and was just ROCKIN' to this "new" Floyd album. When my wife got home she looked at the turntable and changed the speed to the correct setting. This song has just never been the same for me since. Well that also cuz I don't get high any more either, but still ........ Had to bump this...been there, done that!  | |
| fgrunewald (Barnegat, NJ) | Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 18:45 My all time favorite song. You made my evening. | |
| ferwoman | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:57 Andrew Lloyd Weber listened to this? Sounded just like Phantom of the Opera for a minute there. | |
| linzie | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:56 juanos wrote: I think I need some LSD to actually like this! ...No, actually you just need to know something good when you hear it straight....Obv, your struggling with that... | |
| grant | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:55 Well put - it is as good as the bright warm sun. bazzo wrote: It's as good as the sunshine. This is one of the finest works in my personal life-experience. | |
| linzie | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:54 rahkinrah wrote: 110+ for the original, AND the group! Yes, the orig. off Meddle wasn't lonnnnnngggggggg enuff!!!!! | |
| allabout (Perth Western Australia) | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:54 No..the original is better and better still on vinyl Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: Absolutely brilliant song as most of Pink Floyd's songs! (Only: are remixed neccessary?) | |
| juanos (Somewhere between the US and Guatemala) | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:53 I think I need some LSD to actually like this! | |
| linzie | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:51
.........THERE IS NEVER EVER TOO MUCH PF....TURN TO EZ LISTENING, AND LET THE FLOYD PLAY ON!! | |
| grant | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:49 When that thumping bass kicks in and the organ and guitar shoot to the forefront of the mix - awesome!! Might just have to go out and purchase this remix - sounds fat and clean. | |
| linzie | Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 20:47 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..................  | |
| Glencoe_JC (GlasVegas) | Posted: Sep 18, 2011 - 03:43 truly awesome...  | |
| LizK (Houston, Texas) | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 10:45 "Phantom of the Opera" is there! Thanks for the heads up. I saw PF in Jacksonville, Fl. in 1973, accompanied by a British cousin serving aboard the old Ark Royal which toured the east coast. He and his mate wore their sailor whites, hitchhiked from Mayport to Jax - an expat in a Rolls picked them up. My mate and I tried to keep up with a guy who grew up on British beer - big mistake! | |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 10:32 RichardPrins wrote: Beautiful and scary... It's really neat to scroll through a song that has long been out of the rotation. Who are all these people? Where did they run off to? Go rent Phantom of the Opera tonight. Scary is right. Lloyd Weber appropriated a bit of this for his musical. | |
| dcoy (Flagstaff, Arizona) | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 10:30 tutakea wrote: much to much pink floyd during the last days. it´s okay to here them from time to time, but enough is enough! Much too much tutakea in one thread | |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 10:29 tutakea wrote: much to much pink floyd during the last days. it´s okay to here them from time to time, but enough is enough! I usually agree. But not right this moment. | |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 10:29 tutakea wrote: much to much pink floyd during the last days. it´s okay to here them from time to time, but enough is enough! I usually agree. But not right this moment. | |
| tutakea | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 10:27 much to much pink floyd during the last days. it´s okay to here them from time to time, but enough is enough! | |
| tutakea | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 10:27 much to much pink floyd during the last days. it´s okay to here them from time to time, but enough is enough! | |
| tutakea | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 10:27 much to much pink floyd during the last days. it´s okay to here them from time to time, but enough is enough! | |
| snitramc (earth) | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 18:30 The best version was when I saw them @ Milwaukee County Stadium in 1976 live. At least, as I remember it. The Mr. Natural was really kickin' in about then. | |
| rahkinrah | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 18:28 rahkinrah wrote: 110+ for the original, AND the group! yeah kinda redundant eh? Gamme time to light my pipe...again............LOL | |
| StoneyG (Just east of The Rockies; north of the 49th) | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 18:27 From what I think was the greatest era of one of the greatest bands ever. TOO awesome for words. | |
| chasech5 (Ames, IA) | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 18:18 My heart jumped for joy when I heard the first two notes. And a brilliant brilliant segue from Massive Attack's "Teardrop" ! Been listening to RP for years, but I don't think I've ever caught it here.  | |
| rahkinrah | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 18:15 110+ for the original, AND the group! | |
| coloradojohn (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe) | Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 00:59 The ultimate song for a hot summer day or night! I'll never forget seeing the Live at Pompeii concert at a drive-in back in the late 70s or early 80s and rocking out to the way they jammed to all the ghosts at the old amphitheater, and freaking out at the way the camera cut in to show all the "fossil" people killed in the eruption...all the mouths of statues, frozen in agonized screams...and Gilmour JAMMING that Strat, leaning hard on the whammy bar, and Rick doing everyone the biggest favor with those genius keyboard bits, and Roger getting down good and hard with such sinister bass grooves...and Nick was bashing away in full Floydian frenzy. THIS WORK IS NOTHING SHORT OF AWESOME! and it's so great to hear it on RP...Thanks, Bill and Rebecca! | |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 00:52 meddle - what an album.......always a pleasure to re-live! | |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 23:56 David Gilmour, Richard Wright - "Echoes" Live-Acoustic Version, from Abbey Road (2008) "I always see good videos with a few dislikes, and people will comment that x number of people dont have a clue what they're talking about, but its understandable that the video (whether it be music or not) may not be for the person watching it. But it is unfathomable to me that 11 people could click the unlike button on this video. There must be something seriously wrong with who ever that is, and it scares me that i live on the same planet as people like that." tff1293 Richard Wright R.I.P.
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| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 09:43 polymath wrote: No, 12... Because I can smell the colors coming from the speakers Brilliant. | |
| owchita | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 09:39 Well, nice to get a longer version - but it doesn't have the punch of the original | |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 09:38 linzie wrote: Can you play it again, I only caught the last chorus?! hahaha! I"m up for that! | |
| linzie | Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 17:33 Can you play it again, I only caught the last chorus?! | |
| linzie | Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 17:31 Christ, these guys were good!!!!  | |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 17:22 Defined the era for me. | |
| Dinges,_the_Dude (under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52') | Posted: May 15, 2011 - 03:02 Absolutely brilliant song as most of Pink Floyd's songs! (Only: are remixed neccessary?) | |
| liranzzz (Bubble gum lab) | Posted: May 15, 2011 - 02:54 I've been listening to RP for more than 2 years every day, waiting to hear this heavenly creation - this is the greatest tune ever created by anyone! BUT WHY THE SHORT VERSION???  | |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 00:00 Pink Flöyd A Go Go !..Nah don't think so,, 1 # | |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Feb 18, 2011 - 23:58 Long time ago I heared this piece! Surely a ten!! | |
| maroubra (British Columbia Canada) | Posted: Sep 15, 2009 - 19:42 Beautiful, evocative, sublime............Pink Floyd and David Glimour's guitar work are just amazing. Cool keyboards too by Richard Wright.There is only one Floyd.They really were giants. Wow. | |
| Shimmer (Bethesda, MD) | Posted: Sep 15, 2009 - 19:41 This is noticeably different from the version on Meddle. When/why was this version made? | |
| Otomi (La orilla de la civilización) | Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 10:42     |