Over the past four months, I have self-diagnosed myself as a “Pink Floyd” fanatic. Anytime I get the opportunity to listen to music and even during times in class when I shouldn’t be, I have their hypnotic melodies blasting. Unique beauty and meaning are embedded into every one of their songs, making boring walks to class a newfound quest for analytical enlightenment.
When read aloud their poetic lyrics can be truly internalized, entrancing readers with their ideas regarding conformity, government, relationships, war, personal crisis’, dreams, time, drug abuse and anything else under the sun. For hardened fans to enjoy and new fans about to revolutionize the way they view music, here are some of Pink Floyd's best quotes to get your brain churning; I won’t analyze them for you, half the fun is figuring out your own meaning in each song.
1. “Sheep," Animals
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
2. “Thin Ice," The Wall
If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear stained eyes
3. "The Final Cut," The Final Cut
And if I show you my dark side
Will you still hold me tonight?
And if I open my heart to you
And show you my weak side
What would you do?
4. “Learning to Fly," A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
5. "Breathe (In the Air)," Dark Side of the Moon
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
6. “Dogs," Animals
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
7. “Wish You Were Here," Wish You Were Here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
8. “Comfortably numb," The Wall
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
I have become comfortably numb
9. "Time," Dark Side of the Moon
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
