Wish You Were Here

"Wish You Were Here"
By Pink Floyd

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue sky's 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.


This poem is intended to be said in musical form, and that is the predominant reason that it is to my liking. But I also was greatly inspired by its super deep themes of love, loss, and mortality that are so predominant in all of the works of Pink Floyd.