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10 Great Lyrics of Pink Floyd on Drummer Nick Mason’s 79th Birthday

by Silviya Y - 27.01.2023 First Published 27,January 2023, 9:19 AM

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!

//So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
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 education
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’
//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 knives he releaseth my soul//
‘Sheep’
//The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think,
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’

//Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me//
‘Echoes’
//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//
‘Us And Them’
//Over the mountain watching the watcher
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’
//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//
‘Comfortably Numb’
//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 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

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