David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here (Official Audio)

'There's No Way Out' Of Here is the second track from David Gilmour's 1978 self-titled debut solo album.

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*ABOUT DAVID GILMOUR*

A Cambridge friend of Syd Barrett, David joined Syd, with Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason, in Pink Floyd in early 1968, only for Syd to leave the group five gigs later. Pink Floyd's subsequent huge worldwide success continued after Roger Waters' departure in 1985, with the albums A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both charting at No. 1 in the UK and the US, and sell-out world tours. Rattle That Lock released in 2015 and David’s 4th solo album, went to No. 1 in 13 countries. In 2017, Live at Pompeii released as a live album and film which was recorded at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii.

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[ontariobuds]

I swear David’s voice is some of the most relaxing singing voices ever. I wish he would live forever!

Stay healthy David, the world needs you here.

[datatwo]

Makes me cry for a time when our music was still, so very much music. It also makes me cry for a time when there was still a chance left for us to change direction, correct our course, and perhaps prevent what we’ve become.

I sit here and write an entire essay, a discourse on the horrible state of affairs with today's music but more importantly just how music as like many forms of art reflects the state of health and well-being of a society and its culture. And today's music for those who've never lived during the eras prior to twenty five to thirty-five years ago unfortunately could not have the perspective of just what I speak of. There just is no possible way for them to know the difference… even as an intellectual exercise.

It's sad that the younger generations having been born by the 90s and raised in today's extreme corporatized environment and thus every aspect of our lives, could have anything to compare it too. You would need to have been alive and cognizant during a time with no knowledge of the future, it's culture or it's zeitgeist. Otherwise you would only be comparing that experience to what you know and is normalized for you. And yes, that same comment could be shot back and reversed. However I was educated during a time long before the present when bastardizing and using the tactic of over relativism could turn logic inside out and upside down in such a way that it would twist and confuse and thus begin to destroy an entire society.

Some call it doublespeak, and yes… that it is. But that only works against a people who have long ago lost sight of the important aspects of life, along with their responsibility to one another as a society. We gave that all up for convenience and pretty things. Stuff and more stuff, the kind of which never existed before in human history. Yet, for all this technology, all this advancement in the physical, we’ve not changed in how we treat each other in centuries. We’ve not evolved in any meaningful way since perhaps the the late 19th and early 20th century. It takes a loss of education in areas beyond the technical and hard sciences to understand this. But that kind of education ended by the late 1980s, having been demonized and eventually replaced by the only thing that matters now––the pursuit of coin and the power, influence, and comfort it provides. So that for which university existed since the 15th century, has been relegated to the basement sealed in a box of lost and found items.

So for many today who walk about angry, unhappy, depressed, and filled with anxiety––they are lost.

We are lost.

We don’t know why we are this way, we blame one another failing miserably to look at ourselves, never using the word “I” first before slinging the word “you” in face-saving attempts or scapegoating another. We cannot see the nail piercing our hands because we believe that nail to not be a nail at all, but instead only a fancy glimmering piece of finery.

So we are blind to the real reasons we suffer. And we shall remain blind.

Our addictions whatever they may be keep us anesthetized and blind to the kind of thinking and self-reflection necessary to isolate the problems, what caused them, how we contributed to them, or even the real reasons they exist. And we are kept in this state by those who profit from our remaining this way.

Are they to blame?

Or are we to blame for refusing to acknowledge our allowing for this, despite the blood we lose calling that loss healthy and good, all the while slowly turning white and dissolving into shades.

So now we live in a nation and era where up is down, black is green, wrong is right, and dumb is intelligence. The ignorant are empowered, opinion is valid, and facts are ignored. But ignorance is not the problem, for ignorance can be fixed via experience and education. Stupid however, goes right to the bone, and that is who we’ve become. We have the means, but we refuse them. We have tools of all kinds, but they're useless to us. We don't recognize them, or believe in their utility. The tools are and always have been information and knowledge and they could never have been easier to attain, not at any point in written human history.

Yet, we lie upon our sofas before our massive flat screen tv’s, our computers, our cellphones, etc., and ignore our exits out of this mess. Our laziness, our complacency, our selfishness, greed, and utter contempt for “other” is all reflected now in our music, our television shows, our fiction, all of our sources of entertainment today. Without anything to compare the difference to, we cannot know the difference. So our lives and attitudes reflect this.

And we call it good. Normal… Or worse, “real”.

Mass psychosis is a terrible thing, and that is what IS real.

This has occurred throughout all of written history. No society is immune and thus any having fallen into it ever escaped the inevitability despite their believing themselves immune or above its effects––ours being no different.

So, this is where we are. Either already falling, or on the precipice just about ready to take that last fatal step into oblivion.

It only took roughy five decades, with the most intense messaging occurring in the past three. Not that it began there, nor had there not been elements and situations within our culture, our very value system being the most important (our actual not the mythological one we like to believe about ourselves) that hadn’t set us up for this. There are roots; beginnings to everything. One need only self-reflect, and examine the past rather than be afraid of or worse––ignore and disregard it.

But Americans are told to do otherwise. We are commanded to ignore it, to move forward, to not dwell on the past or the negative. We are told by even our most valued of leaders to do this. It is now embedded in our DNA to not only restrain ourselves from self-examination, but to consider it bad, unhealthy, immobility, or a sign of mental illness. Instead, we wear blinders, designer rose colored glasses, trained to never consider the darkness that we create or have created or contributed to. So we continually step on landmine after landmine, falling into sinkholes opening before each and every step we take because our rosy glasses dim our sight from them.

And so today our culture in its entirety reflects this. Today’s culture is vastly different from that of thirty years ago, and sixty years ago, and ninety years ago. And with each window of opportunity to save ourselves, we passed blithely through all of them with pride and gleeful willful ignorance. Thus, there are no more safe houses, no places of respite and no safe harbors any longer. We’ve long since passed through them all; the last of them having disappeared these past two decades. And as we ignored them, they were quietly removed, stolen, and harbored away by those who profit from our being exactly who we now have become. There is no going back.

Now, in a nation where only 8% of the population own, control, and command over 97% of its assets and resources, we are exactly where we should have never ended up. Our forefathers although not perfect, gave us all the tools to prevent this very scenario. But we gave in to pretty pretties, and now live like pigs eating and sleeping in our own dung. Perhaps the last hurrah for our society was between the 1950s and 1960s. Or being a little generous perhaps even up through the late 1970s and very early 1980s. . . maybe. But that would be extremely generous.

And something about this song brings all of this to mind.

[twarner]

This is one of my favorite songs ever. The bass line on this is incredible. The hook is unrelenting. The chorus girls at the end really drive it home. A masterpiece.

[chrishepp]

bought the 8 track when it came out got home put it in and wouldn't play got my trusty pack a matches shoved under the tape and glory hallelujah played from start to finish much enjoyment fo sure

[SummerSeven-Narrowistheway]

The Part you played... The Chance... you took... There are No Boundaries set... The Time... Yet your wasted steal...The Price, You Payed... Talked... Without, Listening... Without Seeing...
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[alertchimp]

I think Gilmore's first two solo albums were awesome. Timeless.

[gallaghim]

Why this song hasn't been a set list regular in forever is beyond me. Total classic.

[ruddersidedown]

Still one of my favorite songs in 2024.

[geoffwatts]

Just watched a advert saying get closer to God.. listening to him now...Dave Gilmore ❤

[jaymidavern]

Roger: There's got to be some way out of here

David: There's no way out of here

[filipkaczmar]

This is the kind of song that makes me love it more and more the more often i listen to it. The little choir of women singing the chorus near the end is hauntingly beautiful

[jamessvec]

No David Gilmour no Pink Floyd.They split up and ran with his musuc.HIS MUSIC

[martystankowski]

Sounds just as fresh in 2020. A great song

[jeffferrell]

How come some people can have skills and a voice like this? He's gotta be from another Planet....

[LoneLee]

That guitar! You just know it's Gilmour.

[lionelmax]

There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
There are no boundaries set
The time and yet
You waste it still
So it slips through your hands
Like grains of sand
You watch it go
There's no time to be lost
You'll pay the cost
So get it right
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There never was an answer
There an answer
Not without listening
Without seeing
There are no answers here
When you look out
You don't see in
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There never was an answer
There an answer
Not without listening
Without seeing
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There are no answers here
When you look out
You don't see in
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
(When you come in)
(You're in for good)

[petuniawigglebottom]

Brilliant lyrics, gorgeous tune, gorgeous voice.

[Pladderkasse]

This man has constantly managed to wrangle the best possible tones from whatever gear he had in his hands at any given time. That lead tone is stunning. Was it Bob Ezrin who said, David could make a ukulele sound like a Stradivarius?

[Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

The last time I saw Pink Floyd when I lived in Toronto, my friend and I were going to our regular watering hole on Yonge Street on our way to the venue when Dave walked by. We made eye contact, he smiled when he saw I recognized him, we both nodded and went our separate ways. I’ll treasure that contact forever. And the concert was kick-🫏! What a nice man! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

[thomashuismann]

I bought this album in 1978 at the University Bookstore in Madison when I was a first year student at Wisconsin. It’s a great album. Mihalis reminds me of flying.