(shivers)

All right, so my first attempt at a topic failed miserably, but just hear me out on this one :smile:

I've been listening to a lot of Floyd lately (no change from the past, oh, four years) but I've noticed some of their lyrics just send a chill up my spine and I wanted to take this time to speak out about that...

"You raise the blade, you make the change, you rearrange me 'till I'm sane..."

"Well, you wore out your welcome with random precision..."

"Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me..."

"And if you want to stay for a little bit, rest your aching limbs for a little bit, for you the night is beckoning and now you can't delay, you hear the night birds calling you but you can't catch the words they say, and you must you realize be on your way..."

"And then as the sail is hoist, you find your eyes are growing moist, and all the fears never voiced say you have to make the final choice..."

"You know the folly was your own but the force behind can't conquer all your fears..."

"Ok...just a little pinprick...there'll be no more aaahhh! But you may feel a little sick...can you stand up? I do believe it's working. Good."

"Hey, you, don't tell me there's no hope at all..."

The "A place to stay, enough to eat" passage from "The Gunner's Dream" right up till "And no-one kills the children anymore..."

"Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend, we were all equal in the end"

"Where were you when I was lost and I was helpless?"

My sig

You know what I mean? I've heard all of these songs hundreds of times but I still get such a thrill when these lines come around...somehow, today's music just can't compare (this coming from a 19-year-old :smile: )

Well, enough babble for this morning. I'm awaiting all of your comments about how this is a useless topic.

Hm. Sorry for the rudeness. What I'm *really* awaiting is all of your personal experiences like mine. Sorry, it's 8 in the morning and I don't have my caffeine in me :smile:

Of course I still get chills, and I've been listening for 7 years. My experiences are quite the same as yours but i would add:

All of Have a Cigar, the whole song is magnificent,
All of Eclipse, Roger at his best

"like the moment when your brakes lock/ and you slide towards the big truck/ you'll never hear their voices anymore/ (mommy and daddy)" that is just gold

too many more to list here, but basically, Floyd speaks to me as few other bands do.

Ooh...got another one.

"Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"

That and two lines from "The Fletcher Memorial Home"

"Boom boom...bang bang...lie down, you're dead" Followed by a bit of staccato snare hits and that indescribable solo, and

"Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?"
_________________
The child is grown
The dream is gone.

This is the point I was trying to make in my topic about whether the lyrics or music is more important.

For me the lyrics are what made Floyd (and Roger Waters' solo material) stand out from other bands.

Yes, the music is important and is probably what makes us want to listen to what they have to say. But the lyrics can actually bring tears to my eyes even though I have been a fan for 20odd years and played the albums over and over.

Ok- but for me, the biggest shiver that I get is 1.20 odds into Any colour you like.

It is definitely a combo of the two. Though, I personally could read the lyrics like poetry.

"I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me"

This one doesn't give me shivers, it just brings a smile on my face. I hope someday I'll feel that way, to someone special.

"The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death"

This song made me change my life. I'm only 21 years old, but for the past 3 years I have acomplished or at least started the things I wanted to do in my life. It made me realize that there is no tomorrow, if I wanna live my life the way I imagined it to be I'd better get on it and do it now, not later.

"Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?"

Not only is it profound and/or sublime, but you just try it in one breath. :smile:

Floyd on!
Byron

Would you sell my story to Rolling Stone?

Oh NNJ, you just reminded me another..."Would you send me packing...OR WOULD YOU TAKE ME HOME?"

that and "I held the blade in trembling hands, prepared to make it, but...just then the phone rang, I never had the nerve to make the final cut..."

Or knives in their backs

Not really the line so much as they way Roger sings it

Although many would say 'the final cut' was lacking musically i think that it was one of the floyd's (Roger's) greatest lyrical achievements. I think the music was appropriate though because the "chills" that album gives are second to only a few other floyd albums (ie:WYWH, etc.)
I also think animals is one of the most lyrically accomplished albums:
"Who was born in a house full of pain.
Who was trained not to spit in the fan.
Who was broken by trained personnel...
Who was dragged down by the stone."
those lines hits home especially for me.
Pigs (TDO) and on the wing and Sheep are all lyrical masterpeieces (musically too).

"Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream"

albatross

There are so many of the lyrics that I just think "wow, how did he come up with that !"

True poetry.