Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Official audio and lyrics (below) to "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd.

Lyrics:

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?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
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.
--

(C) 1975 Pink Floyd Records

[nathaliegould]

This song brings back so many memories...Now my son plays it to me sitting on the steps in the garden, I cry because I remember all the people in my life past and present who connected to this song ❤️❤️❤️❤️ with me. X

[whispersinthedark]

Fuck me, Just woke up thinking about you Dad and of course this song was playing in my head it was your favorite and mine when you were still here. This song has always been the one that reminded me of you for my whole damn life, it just has another layer of meaning now.
So here I sit in bed crying and trying to write through these fucking tears.
So many memories of listening to this song with you. So many memories of you.
I remember the first time we met the morning I was born, I couldn't even see your face just the color of a candlelit room and your energy.I don't even remember mom being their because it was all you. I don't know how it's possible to remember such a thing yet I always have. Maybe it was the acid you were on that made your presence so big without a world being said. I've never had the heart to tell mom that it was you that I remember not her, how could I tell her that after 20+ hours of labour at home with nothing for the pain it was her husband who was tripping balls that I remember. Now that I think about it it's almost a reverse of last night together when the cancer was taking your voice away and we just sat together smoking weed and holding hands, we understood each other without scarcely a word said a loud.
Our last day together ended up being the last time you spoke or walked on your own, two days later you were gone. I knew you were gone that morning when I went out on the porch to have a smoke and it was full of bumble bees, more bees than I have ever seen outside of a nest, and all in a screened in porch. Not a single one of them tried to sting me and that's when I knew it was you telling me your body was dead. You always loved bugs and wouldn't let one be hurt in your presence, you would just talk to them and carry them outside. So there I was crying harder than I've ever cried in my life surrounded by bees, and when I finally pulled myself together I called your house so they could confirm what I already knew.
Life just isn't the same without you here, I miss our 5 hour phone calls when you were drunk .I miss being a little girl and taking naps with you on the couch my head on you chest listening to your heart beat. I miss the one person I could tell everything and anything. When I found out I was pregnant with my son you were the first person I called to tell, and you were the only one who was happy for me. When I called mom she told me to get a fucking abortion, and acted like I was a teenager not a married woman. When I was raped you drove 5 hours in the middle of the night to get back to town to be with me, and when my day in court came you were the only one there with me. I couldn't bear to see that creep so you addressed the judge for me while I cried in the hallway . We went through a lot of shit together good and bad.
It's been 2 years now and I miss you more than ever. I hope we recognize each other next time around, but we talked about that on our last night. I love you Dad.
Just a note to any fathers who are separated from your kid/kids against your will. Don't give up on a relationship with them even if it takes years to happen. My mother divorced my dad when I was 4 yrs old and took me half way across the U.S., I hardly ever saw him for 10 years, 10 years of her shit talking him to me, but it just made me hate her. When I was 14 I moved back to live with my dad, things were fucked up, but at the end of the day I was closer to him that any other person, and I loved him more than I can express. Just keep letting them know that you love them. And to any mothers keeping your kids from their father because you have had issues with him, just don't do it, it's cruel and your child will suffer issues for the rest of their lives because of that separation. Parents you need to stop using your kids as a way to get back at your ex, it's beyond selfish and just evil, and you may just find that all that shit you talked in front of you child about their other parent will only make them resent you or maybe hate you. You may think you are hurting your ex but it's your kids that you are hurting.

[rikardocoschta]

Still one of the GREATEST Bands in the world. Thx for existing and playing. And thx to R. Waters TOO.

The deepest sound - straight into the soul!

[rodrigoluispereira]

Essa música é uma das minhas preferidas! Maravilhosa!

[marthascott]

(Lol people amaze me sometime).. Pink Floyd. Truly amazing extremely talented group of guys. . Still Rockin. What a legacy. Wow

[DianaGarcia-wfrj]

Just lost my pops to covid 19 in Aug. My dad was everything to me and my sisters. When our mother died from colon cancer twelve years earlier, our dad became our base, foundation our constant light.

[oliver]

Still wish Mom and Dad were here. It's been 18 and 20 years respectively. Music is the only thing that has kept some of us sane...wish you were here.

[richardfinn]

Miss you Billy Boswell every time I here this song Brother I think of you !! gone to soon.

[karenawooten]

miss my husband and my dad. both gone too young

[nuningwidayati]

This song touches everyone's heart

[charliejennings]

Floyd are as alive with my generation (19yrs old) as they were in the 70s. I don't usually comment on YouTube videos, but I can make exception. Good music never dies! Love from London.

[marcthorpe]

playing this to my 7 year old like my dad did to me Pink Floyd will never grow old

[dimitriskerkoulas]

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.

And how we found

The same old fears.

Wish you were here.

[lorieburton]

My late husband played lead guitar . he loved Pink Floyd he could play this song and you couldn't tell them apart know when I here this song I think of him and hear him every time . Colorado here .

[chevylift]

Miss my son he passed away at 19 it will be 24 yrs Jan 30 2018

[freiburgerberg]

Missing all the friends. lost on the way. who came along and passed by

[noraflaming]

miss you baby brother, today you would be 15

[halfaday]

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?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
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.

[lanahahn]

I miss you so much my love. Until we see each other again. I love you.Wish You We're here

[georgekyriakou]

gimme a fucking break, youtube. i am already addicted to the song