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"Dark Side of the Moon" Lyrics
BREATHE
Pink Floyd 1973
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Waters, Gilmour, Wright
Vocals by: Gilmour
Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around, choose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
Run Rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave
ON THE RUN
Pink Floyd 1973
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Gilmour, Waters
(Instrumental)
TIME (+ Breathe reprise)
Pink Floyd 1973
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour
Vocals by: Gilmour, Wright
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun,
but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought,
or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the fields
The tolling of an iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells
THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY
Pink Floyd 1973
Music: Wright
Vocals by: Clare Torry
Before Clare Torry came to the studio and improvised her vocal, the instrumental piece between Time/Breathe reprise and Money was called 'The Mortality Sequence' or 'Variation'.
MONEY
Pink Floyd 1973
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Gilmour
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and
make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think IŽll buy me a football team
Money, get back
I'm all right Jack, keep your hands off my stack.
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise, it's no surprise
that they're giving none away
US AND THEM
Pink Floyd 1973 (1969)
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Waters, Wright
Vocals by: Waters, Gilmour
The song was originally composed for the film 'Zabriskie Point' - but was not used. See also The Violent Sequence.
Us and them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
The General sat, and the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and down
And in the end it's only round and round
And round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside
Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With , without
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died
ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE
Pink Floyd 1973
Music: Gilmour, Mason, Wright
(Instrumental)
BRAIN DAMAGE
Pink Floyd 1973
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the clouds bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon .
ECLIPSE
Pink Floyd 1973
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
And all that you love
And all that you hate
All you Distrust
All you save
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
beg, borrow or steal
And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say
And all that you eat
And everyone you meet
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
Lyrics Copyright: Roger Waters - World Copyrights Ltd. 1973
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"Wish You Were Here" Lyrics
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
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
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.
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"The Wall" side one Lyrics
IN THE FLESH?
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
So Ya
thought ya
might like to go to the show
to feel the warm thrill of confusion
that space cadet glow
Tell me is something eluding you sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?
If you'd like to find out what's behind these cold eyes
you'll just have to claw your way through the disguise
THE THIN ICE
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters, Gilmour
Mama Loves her baby
and daddy loves you too
And the sea may look warm to you babe
and the sky may look blue
But ooooh babe
ooooh baby blue
ooooh babe
If you should go skating
on The Thin Ice of modern life
dragging behind you the silent reproach
of a million tear stained eyes
don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
appears under your feet
You slip out of you depth and out of your mind
with your fear flowing out behind you
as you claw The Thin Ice
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL, part one
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Daddy's flown across the ocean
leaving just a memory
A snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me
All in all it was just a brick in the wall
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
When we grew up and went to school
there were certain teachers who would
hurt the children anyway they could
by pouring their derision
upon anything we did
and exposing any weakness
however carefully hidden by the kids
But in town it was well known
when they got home at night
their fat and psychopatic wives would thrash them
within inches of their lives
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL, part two
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters, Gilmour, Islington Green School Choir
The song has also been released on a special promotion CD before The Berlin Show. The special Roger Waters recording includes samples from Echoes and other Wall-sound effects.
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey teacher leave us kids alone
All in all it was just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
MOTHER
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters, Gilmour
Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb
Mother do you think they'll like the song
Mother do think they'll try to break my balls
Mother should I build a wall
Mother should I run for president
Mother should I trust the government
Mother will they put me in the firing line
Is it just a waste of time
Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true
Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you
Mama's gonna keep you right here
under her wing
She won't let you fly but she might let you sing
Mama's gonna keep baby cosy and warm
Ooooh babe, ooooh babe, ooooh babe
Of course mama's gonna help build the wall
Mother do you think she's good enough for me
Mother do you think she's dangerous to me
Mother will she tear your little boy apart
Ooh ah Mother will she break my heart
Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you
Mama won't let anyone dirty get through
Mama's gonna wait up until you get in
Mama will always find out where you've been
Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean
Ooooh babe, oooo babe
You'll always be a baby to me
Mother did it need to be so high
GOODBYE BLUE SKY
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Gilmour, Waters
Ooooooooooooooooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the fallings bombs
Did you ever wonder
why we had to run for shelter
when the promise of brave new world
unfurled beneath a clear blue sky
Oooooooooooooooooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the fallings bombs
The flames are all long gone
but the pain lingers on
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye Blue sky
Goodbye
EMPTY SPACES
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
'Empty Spaces' is not to find on 'The Wall - Live In Berlin', though it is printed on the cover notes. The song has been confused with 'What Shall We Do Now?'
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
where we used to talk
How shall I fill the final places
How shall I complete the wall
YOUNG LUST
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Waters, Gilmour
Vocals by: Gilmour
I am just a new boy
A stranger in this town
Where are all the good times
Who's gonna show this stranger around?
Oooooooh I need a dirty woman
Oooooooh I need a dirty girl
Will some cold woman in this desert land
make me feel like a real man
Take this rock and roll refugee
Ooooh babe set me free
Oooooooh I need a dirty woman
Oooooooh I need a dirty girl
ONE OF MY TURNS
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Day after day, love turns gray
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 anymore
And I can feel one of my turns coming on
I feel cold as a razor blade tight as a tourniquet
dry as a funeral drum
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left
you'll find my favourite axe
Don't look so frightened
this is just a passing phase
Just one of my bad days
Would you like to watch TV
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat?
Would you like to learn to fly?
Would you like to see me try?
Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it's time I stopped?
Why are you running away?
DON'T LEAVE ME NOW
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Ooooh babe
Don't leave me now
Don't say it's the end of the road
Remember the flowers I sent
I need you babe
to put through the shredder
in front of my friends
Ooooh babe
Don't leave me now
How could you go?
When you know how I need you
to beat to a pulp on a Saturday night
Ooooh babe
Don't leave me now
How can you treat me this way?
Running away
I need you babe
Why are you running away?
Ooooooh babe
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL, part three
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
I don't need no arms around me
I don't need no drugs to calm me
I Have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I need anything at all
No don't think I need anything at all
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Goodbye cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye all you people
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind
Goodbye
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"The Wall" side 2 lyrics
HEY YOU
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Gilmour, Waters
Hey You !
Out there in the cold
getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me
Hey you!
Standing in the aisles
with itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me
Hey You ! Don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight
Hey you !
Out there on your own
sitting naked by the phone, would you touch me
Hey you ! With your ear against the wall
waiting for someone to call out, would you touch me
Hey you ! Would you help me to carry the stone
Open your heart, I'm coming home
But it was only fantasy
The wall was to high, as you can see
No matter how he tried he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain
Hey you ! Out there on the road
doing what you're told, can you help me
Hey you ! Out there beyond the wall
breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me
Hey you ! Don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
NOBODY HOME
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
I've got a little black book with my poems in
I've got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in
When I'm good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in
I've got elastic bands keeping my shoes on
Got those swollen hand blues
Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from
I've got electric light
and I've got second sight
I've got amazing powers of observation
and that is how I know
when I try to get through
on the telephone to you
there'll be nobody home
I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm
and the inevitable pinhole burns
All down the front of my favourite satin shirt
I've got nicotine stains on my fingers
I've got a silver spoon on a chain
I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains
I've got wild staring eyes
I've got a strong urge to fly
But I've got nowhere to fly to
Ooooh babe, when I pick up the phone
there's still nobody home
I've got a pair of Gohill's boots
and I've got fading roots
VERA
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn
Remember how she said that
we would meet again
some sunny day
Vera ! Vera !
What has become of you
Does anybody else in here
feel the way I do?
BRING THE BOYS BACK HOME
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Bring the boys back home
Bring the boys back home
Don't leave the children on their own
Bring the boys back home
COMFORTABLY NUMB
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Gilmour, Waters
Vocals by: Waters, Gilmour
Hello !
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
I Can ease your pain
and get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts
There is no pain, you are receding
a distant ship smoke on the horizon
You're only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got the feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
OK
Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaaah!
but you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go
There is no pain, you are receding
a distant ship smoke on the horizon
You're only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
and I've become comfortably numb
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Gilmour
Oooh Ma, Oooh Pa
Must the show go on?
Oooh Pa take me home
Oooh Ma let me go
(Do I have to stand up
wild eyed in the spotlight
What a night mare
Why don't I turn and run)
There must be some mistake
I didn't mean to let them
take away my soul
Am I too old, is it too late
Oooh Ma, Oooh Pa
Where has the feeling gone?
Oooh Ma, Oooh Pa
Will I remember the songs?
Oooh ah!
The show must go on
IN THE FLESH
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
So Ya
thought ya
might like to go to the show
to feel the warm thrill of confusion
that space cadet glow
I've got some bad news for you sunshine
Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
and we're going to find out where you fans really stand
Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?
Get 'em up against the wall
There's one in the spotlight
He don't look right to me
Get him up against the wall
That one looks Jewish
and that one's a coon
Who let all this riff raff into the room
There's one smoking a joint
and another with spots
If I had my way
I'd have all of you shot
RUN LIKE HELL
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Gilmour, Waters
Vocals by: Waters, Gilmour
You better make your face up in your favourite disguise
With your button down lips and your roller blind eyes
With your empty smile and your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
when the cockle shell shatters
and the hammers batter down your door
You better run like hell
You better run all day
and run all night
And keep your dirty feelings deep inside
And if you take your girlfriend out tonight
You better park the car well out of sight
'Cos if they catch you in the backseat
trying to pick her locks
They're gonna send you back to mother
in a cardboard box
You better run
WAITING FOR THE WORMS
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters, Gilmour
Ooooh you cannot reach me now
Ooooh now matter how you try
Goodbye cruel world it's over
Walk on by
Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come
In Perfect isolation here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come
Waiting to cut out the dead wood
Waiting to clean up the city
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to weed out the weaklings
Waiting to smash in their windows and kick in their doors
Waiting for the final solution to strengthen the strain
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to turn on the showers and fire the ovens
Waiting for the queens and the coons and the reds and the Jews
Waiting to follow the worms
Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friend
All you have to do is follow the worms
Would you like to send our coloured cousins
home again, my friend
All you need to do is follow the worms
STOP
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Stop!
I wanna go home
Take off this uniform and leave the show
And I'm waiting in this cell
Because I have to know
have I been guilty all this time?
THE TRIAL
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Waters, Bob Ezrin
Vocals by: Waters
Good morning worm your honour
The crown will plainly show
The Prisoner who now stand before you
was caught red handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
This will not do
Call the schoolmaster
I have always said he'd come to no good
in the end, your honour
If they'd let me have my way
I could have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied
The bleeding hearts and artists
let him get away with murder
Let me hammer him today
Crazy, toys in the attic, I am crazy
(Surely gone fishing)
They must have taken my marbles away
Call the defendant's wife
You little shit, you're in it now
I hope they throw away the key
You should have talked to me more often than you did
but no! You had to go your own way
Have you broken any homes up lately?
Just five minutes Worm your honour
Him and me alone
Babe!
Come to mother baby let me hold you in my arms
M'lud I never wanted him to get in any trouble
Why'd he ever have to leave me
Worm your honour let me take him home
Crazy, over the rainbow, I am crazy
Bars in the window
There must have been a door there in the wall
when I came in
Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy
The evidence before the court is incontrovertible
There's no need for the jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
of someone more deserving
the full penalty of law
The way you made them suffer
Your exquisite wife and mother
fills me with the urge to defecate
Since, my friend you have revealed
your deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed
before you peers
Tear down the wall
Tear down the wall
OUTSIDE THE WALL
Pink Floyd 1979
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
All alone, or in twos
The ones who really love you
walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
Some gathered together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and falls
after all it's not easy banging your heart against
some mad buggers wall
Lyrics Copyright: Pink Floyd Music Publishers / Pink Floyd Music 1979
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"Animals" Lyrics
PIGS ON THE WING part 1 & 2
Pink Floyd 1977
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
The 8-Track Cartridge mix of this song is different and includes a guitar solo by Snowy White. This version can also be found on Snowy White: Goldtop.
[Part 1]
If you didn't care what happened to me
And if I didn't care for you
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing
[Part 2]
You know that I care what happens to you
And I know that you care for me
So I don't feel alone
Or the weight of the stone
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone
And any fool knows a dog needs a home
A shelter from pigs on the wing
DOGS
Pink Floyd 1977
Lyrics: Waters
Music: Waters, Gilmour
Vocals by: Gilmour, Waters
The song 'You Gotta Be Crazy' was actually a few years old (1974), when the Floyd rewrote it and put it on 'Animals'.
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street
You gotta be able to pick up the easy meat
With your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking
And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder, and harder and harder
As you get older
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer
And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest
You have sown
And as fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And its too late to loose the weight
You used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down, alone
Dragged down by the stone
I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don't stand on my own ground,
How can I find my own way out of this maze?
Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do
Would be to isolate the winner
And everything's done under the sun
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer
Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a seat in the stand
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was dragged down by the stone
PIGS (THREE DIFFERENT ONES)
Pink Floyd 1977
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Big man, pig man, ha ha, charade you are
You well heeled big wheel, ha ha , charade you are
And when your hand is on your heart
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost a joker
With your head down in the pig bin
Saying "Keep on digging"
Pig stain on your fat chin
What do you hope to find?
When you're down in the pig mine
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry
Bus stop, rat bag, ha ha, charade you are
You fucked up old hag, ha ha, charade you are
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost worth a quick grin
You like the feel of steel
You're hot stuff with a hat pin
And good fun with a hand gun
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry
Hey you, White house, ha ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse, ha ha, charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings of the street
You're nearly a real treat
All tight lips cold feet
And do you feel abused?
...! ...! ...! ...!
You gotta stem the evil tide
And keep it all on the inside
Mary you're nearly a treat
Mary you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry
SHEEP
Pink Floyd 1977
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Waters
Like You Gotta Be Crazy, also Raving And Drooling was actually an older Pink Floyd song which had been performed live several times. Pink Floyd retitled/rewrote the songs and put them on 'Animals'.
Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air
You better watch out
There may be dogs about
I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen
Things are not what they seem
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors, into the valley of steel
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes
Now things are really what they seem
No, this is no bad dream
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knifes he releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, he hath great power, and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Though quiet reflection, and great dedication
master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the buggers eyes water
Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avangers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told
Get out of the road
If you want to grow old
Lyrics Copyright: Roger Waters - Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd. 1977
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