Remember when you were youngyou shone like the sunshine on you crazy diamondnow there's a look in your eyeslike black holes in the skyshine on you crazy diamondyou were caught in the cross fireof childhood and stardomblown on the steel breezecome on you. Producer (s) pink floyd. It appeared on pink floyd's 1975 concept album wish you were here.
The song is written about and dedicated to syd barrett, who left the band in 1968 due to deteriorating mental. Shine on you crazy diamond 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 /.
Nobody knows where you are how near and how far. Shine on you crazy diamond. Pile on many more layers i'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond. And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterdays triumph. We'll sail upon the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child you winner and loser. 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 you were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze come on you target for faraway laughter; Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and. What “shine on you crazy diamond” is about.
The song is primarily a tribute to the aforementioned artists’ former bandmate syd barrett. Barrett, who was also one of the founders of pink floyd, was kicked out of the group in 1968 because of his fragile mental health and lsd abuse. The track captures the band’s feelings of guilt for.
Shine on you crazy diamond well, you wore out your welcome with random precision rode on the steel breeze come on you raver you seer of visions come on you painter you piper you prisoner and shine nobody knows where you are how near or how far shine on you crazy diamond pile on many more years and i'll be joining you there shine on you crazy. It is a tribu. Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond. Pile on many more layers and i'll be joining you there. Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph, and sail on the steel breeze. Come on you boy child, you winner and loser, come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine! You legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. Shine on you crazy diamond. Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond. Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond. You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. The line “you reached for too soon” in “shine on you crazy diamond” is a reference to the album “the dark side of the moon”.
Each band member acknowledges the monumental influence barrett had on the direction of the band. The line is thus an homage within the homage of diamond; A recognition, if you will, that without syd, dark side.
Shine on, you crazy diamond. Roger waters] you were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom. Blown on the steel breeze.
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 you were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom blown on the steel breeze come on, you target for faraway laughter come on, you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine you reached for. It appeared on pink floyd's 1975 concept album wish you were here. The song was conceived and written as a tribute and remembrance to their former band member syd barrett.
Lyrics remember when you were young? You shone like the sun shine on,.
