Pink Floyd - Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd

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Pink Floyd - Echoes - The Best Of Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Classic '60s British spook-rock reissued

If you saw Pink Floyd at Live8 and wondered what all the fuss was about, then your instincts were right. Pink Floyd are one of those bands that even their fans have to make excuses for. Pompous, self-important, joyless and big-selling, they’ve become shorthand for grumpy middle-aged bank manager rock. Most famous for ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ – a record about half as clever as it...

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  • Sep 4, 2007

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Thorgerson also created sleeves for Biffy Clyro, Led Zeppelin and Muse

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Pink Floyd - Bike Lyrics

I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings

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Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues Lyrics

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear
That I'm not here

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Pink Floyd - Echoes Lyrics

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide

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Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home Lyrics

Take all your overgrown infants away, somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own
The Fletcher Memorial Home
For incurable tyrants and kings

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Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free Lyrics

It was just before dawn
One miserable morning in black '44
When the forward commander was told to sit tight
When he asked that his men be withdrawn

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Pink Floyd - Sheep Lyrics

Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air

You better watch out

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Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine Lyrics

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground

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Pink Floyd - See Emily Play Lyrics

Emily tries but misunderstands, ah ooh
She often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let's try it another way

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Pink Floyd - Happiest Days Of Our Lives Lyrics

When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children any way they could

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Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, Part Ii Lyrics

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone

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Pink Floyd - Hey You Lyrics

Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles

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Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky Lyrics

"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."

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Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Lyrics

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotus's lean on each other in yearning
Over the hills a swallow is resting

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Pink Floyd - Money Lyrics

Money
Get away
You get a good job with good pay and you're okay
Money

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Pink Floyd - Keep Talking Lyrics

(David Gilmour/Richard Wright/Polly Samson)

For millions of years mankind lived just like animals
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination

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Pink Floyd - Sorrow Lyrics

The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking

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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7) Lyrics

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

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Pink Floyd - Time Lyrics

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Lyrics

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?

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Pink Floyd - One Of These Days Lyrics

One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces

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Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly Lyrics

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled

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Pink Floyd - Us And Them Lyrics

Us and them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me and you
God only knows

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Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne Lyrics

Arnold Layne had a strange hobby
Collecting clothes moonshine washing line
They suit him fine

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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Lyrics

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue sky's from pain.
Can you tell a green field

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Pink Floyd - High Hopes Lyrics

(David Gilmour/Polly Samson)
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary

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