10 Great Lyrics of Pink Floyd on Drummer Nick Mason’s 79th Birthday
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It’s Nick Mason’s 79th birthday and we can’t keep calm! Pink Floyd has been a part of all of our lives at one point or another, and Nick Mason is an extremely talented drummer from the group. He is the only person to be featured on all the albums of Pink Floyd, and the only constant member to be in the band since its formation in 1965. In order to celebrate his birthday today, let’s look at some of their greatest lyrics!
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. //
‘Time (1974)’
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey, teachers, leave them kids alone
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall//
‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part II’
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives he releaseth my soul//
‘Sheep’
Oh, by the way, which one’s Pink?//
‘Have a Cigar’
//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 your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice//
‘The Thin Ice’
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me//
‘Echoes’
And after all we’re only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do//
‘Us And Them’
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun//
‘Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun’
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//
‘Comfortably Numb’
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 crossfire 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’
– Riya Sohini