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The Dark Side Of The Moon - 1973
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON was a benchmark record. It turned the
musical world on its ear with a hitherto unseen combination of
sounds, and changed things considerably for Pink Floyd. The
pyramid-like prism refracting the thin white light into a rainbow
became synonymous with the band, as did the album, a collection
of epics steeped in Roger Waters' lyrics of paranoia, alienation
and schizophrenia.
For this project, Pink Floyd resurrected older and unfinished
numbers, some of which came from the multitude of soundtracks
the band members had previously worked on. The film "Zabriskie
Point," a study of American materialism from a foreigner's
perspective, provided "Us And Them" (originally titled "The
Violence Sequence"). Waters rewrote "Breathe" after its
appearance on his and avant-garde composer Ron Geesin's score
for "The Body," a surreal medical documentary. To bring the
songs into a clearer light, Floyd and their long-time engineer, Alan Parsons, used a multitude of sound
effects--from stereophonically-projected footsteps and planes flying overhead ("On The Run") to a roomful of
ringing clocks ("Time").
The band brought in female singers to sweeten the harmonies throughout the album. Gospel singer Clare
Torry was given a solo, albeit lyric-less, turn on Richard Wright's "The Great Gig In The Sky," shrieking,
sobbing and sighing in orgasmic waves. Floyd also enlisted Dick Parry's saxophone on "Us And Them" and
"Money," which became the group's first American Top 40 hit. Further adding to the record's mystique,
barely audible spoken passages were sprinkled throughout--a result of hours interviewing random Abbey
Road occupants about their views on insanity, violence and death.
The combination of creative and technological concepts must have struck a nerve; DARK SIDE OF THE
MOON remained on Billboard's albums chart for an astounding fourteen years. It made Pink Floyd a
household name, elevating them to the level of the Rolling Stones and The Who in the rock pantheon. Maybe
most important, DARK SIDE found Roger Waters for the first time using the group as a tool for his own
concepts and personal views, foreshadowing conflicts that would come to a head in the band's future works.
Speak to Me
Money
Breathe
Us and Them
On the Run
Any Colour You Like (Instrumental)
Time
Brain Damage
Breathe - Reprise
Eclipse
The Great Gig in the Sky (Instrumental)
Speak to Me (Instrumental)
"I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been
over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."
"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even
if you're not mad..."
Breathe
Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around and chose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
Run, 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 start another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave.
On the Run (Instrumental)
"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"
Time
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
Breathe - Reprise
Home, home again
I like to be there when I can
When I come in cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
The Great Gig in the Sky (Instrumental)
"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."
"I never said I was frightened of dying."
Money
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and your O.K.
Money it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team
Money get back
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off my stack.
Money it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
Money it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away
"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"
Us and Them
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
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside
Down and Out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny that's what the fightings all about
Get out of the way, it's a busy day
And I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died
Any Colour You Like (Instrumental)
Brain Damage
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
"I can't think of anything to say except...
I think it's marvellous! HaHaHa!"
Eclipse
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All that you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All that you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
everyone you meet
All that you slight
everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.