Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Echoes

Pink Floyd may have have been a completely drug addled band, but they sometimes got close to the truth:

Echoes

"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 called 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

And no-one calls us to move on
And no-one forces down our eyes
And no-one speaks and no-one tries
And 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
And so I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky"

The first two stanzas are clearly about evolution - moving from sea to land. Perhaps the rest of the song talks about this as well, culminating in a final stanza about the loneliness of modern man in the big city.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Are you sure it isn't about intelligent design, with the albatross in stanza one being God's silent observer while the rest of nature evolves from sea-slime?
Never really thought of it as a fore-runner to 'Right Here, Right Now' (Fatboy Slim)...
8-P

k said...

could be.

surprised me that floyd could talk about stuff other than how depressing life is etc

Unknown said...

yes I suppose the fact that they spoke about something like 'the loneliness of modern man in the big city' must have come as a complete shock for you considering that you were expecting them to sing about how depressing life is...
my personal favourite floyd song is 'Bike'. you can ride it if you like.

k said...

there is a difference between singing about loneliness and whining about how lonely you are.

k said...

bike.

yes, its got whistles and bells and things to make it look good.

its kind of silly though

colours said...

this is my fav floyd song too