Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd album released September 15, 1975.
Re-released in 2011: Experience and Immersion editions
LP:Harvest SHVL 814 Quadrophonic version:Harvest Q4 SHVL 814 Picture Disc:Harvest SHVLP 814 LP:EMI 8 29750 2 CD:EMI CDP 7 46035 2 1997 US remaster:Columbia CK68522 |
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, part one | 13.38 |
Welcome To The Machine | 7.30 |
Have A Cigar | 5.24 |
Wish You Were Here | 5.17 |
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, part two | 12.28 |
Pink Floyd:
Roger Waters
David Gilmour
Richard Wright
Nick Mason
Dick Parry: Saxophone on Shine
On You Crazy Diamond
Roy Harper: vocal on Have A Cigar
Stephane Grappelli: violin
Venetta Fields and Carlena Williams: backing vocals
Recorded in Abbey Road Studios, between January 6 and July 19, 1975
Produced by Pink Floyd
Engineered by Brian Humphries
Assisted by Peter James
Thanks to Bernie Caulder and Phil Taylor
Sleeve design and photography by Hipgnosis
Assisted by Peter Christopherson,
Jeff Smith, Howard Bartrop and Richard Manning
Graphics by George Hardie, N.T.A.
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND, part one & two (part1-9)
Pink Floyd 1975
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Part 1: Wright, Waters, Gilmour (Part two:)
Part 2: Gilmour,Wright, Waters Part 6: Wright, Waters, Gilmour
Part 3: Waters, Gilmour,Wright Part 7: Waters, Gilmour, Wright
Part 4: Gilmour, Wright, Waters Part 8: Gilmour, Wright, Waters
Part 5: Waters, Gilmour, Wright Part 9: Wright
Vocals by: Waters
Part one
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 on the cross fire 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, and exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy 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!
part two
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,
and sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child, you winner and looser
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
Pink Floyd 1975
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters, Gilmour
Album releases: | Used in film/video: |
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Wish You Were Here Shine On In The Flesh The Later Years (box) Us + Them |
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine
Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time
provided with toys and 'Scouting for Boys'
You bought a guitar to punish your ma
and you didn't like school, and you know you're nobodys fool
So welcome to the machine
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine
What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream
You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar
He always ate in the steak bar
He loved his Jaguar
So welcome to the machine
HAVE A CIGAR
Pink Floyd 1975
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Roy Harper
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Wish You Were Here Shine On A Foot in The Door |
Come on here, dear boy, have a cigar
You're gonna go far, fly high
You're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try
They're gonna love you
Well I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely
The band is just fantastic, that's really what I think
Oh by the way which one is Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
We call it Riding the Gravy Train
We're just knocked out. We heard about the sell out
You gotta get an album out, you owe it to the people
We're so happy we can hardly count
Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
Its a helluva start, it could be made into a monster if we all
pull together as a team
And did we tell you the name of the game boy
We call it Riding the Gravy Train
WISH YOU WERE HERE
Pink Floyd 1975
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Waters, Gilmour
Vocals by: Gilmour
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?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And 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
Lyrics Copyright: Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd.