Most profound lyric personally?

The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me till Im sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
Theres someone in my head but its not me.

Time (DSOTM)

I think it describes the passing of time in a very accurate way, despite it's a strange concept to talk about

Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
Night after night, we pretend it's all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more...... Sums up being in a dysfunctional relationship perfectly.

and you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
racing around to come up behind you again.

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

"They disembarked in 45
and no one spoke and no one smiled
there were too many spaces in the line
gathered at the cenotaph
all agreed with hand on heart
to sheath the sacrificial knifes
but now
she stands upon southampton dock
with her handkerchief
and her summer frock clings
to her wet body in the rain
in quiet desperation knuckles
white upon the slippery reins
she bravely waves the boys goodbye again
and still the dark stain spreads between
his shoulder blades
a mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves
and when the fight was over
we spent what they had made
but in the bottom of our hearts
we felt the final cut"

My thoughts exactly.

As a second choice:

Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away

I can't really feel lyrics from MLOR or TDB even if I wanted to because I just think the music is not of very high quality and it diminishes the impact of the lyrics. I this is why albums like DSOTM and WYWH are so great because both aspects are balanced so well... but then again that's what everyone says.

"And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph--sail on the steel breeze..."

"Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young--in a world of magnets and miracles..."

I wholeheartedly agree with everyone who quoted the last verse from Echoes. That bit has reverberated throughout my life ever since I first discovered it.

And to he/she who wrote:
"I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains." - Nobody Home

Two cheers for you. That song, lyrics and music, is absolutely heart-wrenching, tear-jerking beauty.

Yet Another Movie has some all-time favorites:
"He has laughed and he has cried
He has fought and he has died.
He's just the same as all the rest.
He's not the worst, and he's not the best."

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
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
And 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

Very, very profound.

I felt like crying whenever I remember Dark Side Lyrics... since they all apply to me (and I think to everyone)... Time couldn't be more general to us all...

But... the most personal lyric(and favourite) will alway be Brain Damage/Eclipse, being my signature extract the most meaningul, and also "Everything under the Sun is in tune, but the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon".

And the strangers passing in the streets part from echoes is just haunting to me... i love those lyrics

Shine On R. Waters!
Shine On Pink Floyd!

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time
And far from flying high in clear blue skies
I'm spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.

There are many, but currently.. (not Floyd though)

I've got twelve deciples and a Buddha's smile
Guardian of Allah, fighting Valhallah
miracle once in a while

I've got a pantheon of animals and a pagan soul
Vishnu and Gaia, Aztec and Maya
Dance around my totem pole

I believe in what I see
I believe in what I hear
I believe that what I'm feeling
changes how the world appears

Angels and demons dancing in my head
Lunatics and monsters underneath my bed
Media messiahs preying on my fears
Pop culture prophets whisper in my ears.

Shame on us
We knew from the start
May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts
Shame on us
For all we have done
And all we ever were - just zeroes and ones

Ah, the burden of the Canuck.

Yah, how's it goin' dere, Eh?