Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around and choose 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, rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down, it's time to dig 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 towards an early grave
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
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 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 a relative way but you're older
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 desperation
is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
And far away across the fields
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells
Thank you very much. Good evening to you.
A few tunes from The Dark Side Of The Moon.
We're going to play the whole of the recent record for you in the first half tonight.
We'll play lots of better known stuff, for some of you, later on.
This is On An Island. Thank you.
Remember that night
White steps in the moonlight
They walked here too
Through empty playground
This ghosts' town
Children again
On rusting swings getting higher
Sharing a dream
On an island, it felt right
We Ia y side by side
Between the moon and the tide
Mapping the stars for a while
Let the night surround you
We're halfway to the stars
Ebb and flow
Let it go
Feel her warmth beside you
Remember that night
The warmth and the laughter
Candles burned
Though the church was deserted
At dawn we went down
through empty streets to the harbour
Dreamers may leave
but they're here ever after
Let the night surround you
We're halfway to the stars
Ebb and flow
Let it go
Feel her warmth beside you
Thank you very much.
Can I introduce you to Mr David Crosby and Mr Graham Nash?
That was a song called On An Island, the title track.
It's about how friends live on in your memories after they're gone.
This is called The Blue.
Shameless sea
Aimlessly so blue
Midnight-moon shines for you
Still, marooned
Silence drifting through
Nowhere to choose
Just blue
Ceaselessly
Star-crossed you and me
Save our souls
We 'Il be forever blue
Waves roll
Lift us in blue
Drift us
Seep right through
And colour us blue
Wait for me
Shameless you, the sea
Soon, the blue
So soon
Soon, the blue
So soon
All the pieces fall into place
When we walk these fields
And I reach out and touch your face
This earthly heaven is enough for me
So break the bread and pour the wine
I need no blessings but I'm counting mine
Life is much more than money buys
When I see the faith in my children's eyes
I've felt the power in a holy place
Wished for comfort when in need
Now I'm here in a state of grace
This earthly heaven is enough for me
So break the bread and pour the wine
I need no blessings but I'm counting mine
So break the bread and pour the wine
I need no blessings but I'm counting mine
Life is much more than money buys
When I see the faith in my children's eyes
Mr Robert Wyatt playing the cornet for you here tonight.
Right. Obviously, as well as Robert Wyatt, we have a few other people up here.
We have Mr Dick Parry.
Who I've been playing with, on and off, since we were teenagers.
He played on Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here.
As you all probably know.
Next to him we have Mr Jon Carin.
Who I played with at Live Aid in 1985.
He's playing the keyboards, the slide guitar and he's singing.
And I taught him everything he knows.
To my far right, El Magnifico, Mr Phil Manzanera.
Who helped produce the album we're performing for you this half.
Next to him we have Mr Guy Pratt.
On the bass guitar and on stand-up. Boom-boom.
Next to him we have Mr Steve DiStanislao.
Who I saw when Polly and I went to see Crosby & Nash last year at the Festival Hall.
We just thought he was too good not to nick, so...
And, of course, Mr Richard Wright.
Right. This is a song called Smile.
Would this do to make it all right
While sleep has taken you
where I'm out of sight
I'll make my getaway
Time on my own
Search for a better way
To find my way home to your smile
Your smile
Wasting days and days
on this fight
Always down
And up half the night
Hopeless to reminisce
through the dark hours
We'll only sacrifice
what time will allow us
You're sighing
All alone
though you're right here
Now it's time to go from your sad stare
Make my getaway
Time on my own
Leaving's a better way
To find my way home to your smile
Your smile
Take a breath Take a deep breath now
Take a breath A deep breath now
Take a breath Take a deep breath now
Take a breath A deep breath now
Take a breath Take a deep breath now
Take a breath A deep breath now
Take a breath Take a deep breath now
Take a breath
When you're down is where you find yourself
When you drown there's nothing else
When you're lost you'll need to turn yourself
Then you'll find out that there's no one else
To make the moves that you can do
When you fall from grace your eyes in blue
Your every breath becomes another world
And the far horizon's living hell
Take a breath Take a deep breath now
Take a breath A deep breath now
Take a breath Take a deep breath now
Take a breath
This kind of love is hard to find
I never got to you by being kind
If I'm the one to throw you overboard
At least I showed you how to swim for shore
When you're down is where you'll know yourself
That if you drown there's nothing else
When you're lost you need to find yourself
Then you'll find out that there's no one else
Take a breath
He's sending stones skimming and flying
Circles spinning out his time
Though the earth is dying
his head is in the stars
Chances are this spark's a lifetime
Out of touch he'll live in wonder
Won't lose sleep, he'll just pretend
In his world
he won't go under
Turns without him 'til the end
Rivers run dry
but there's no line on his brow
Says he doesn't care who's saved
It's just the dice you roll
The here and now
And he's not guilty or afraid
One day he'll slip away
Cool water flowing all around
In the river and on the ground
Leave a pocketful of stones
and not believe in other lives
Until then he'll live in wonder
He won't fight or comprehend
In his world he won't go under
Turns without him until the end
Where we start
is where we end
We step out sweetly
with nothing planned
Along by the river
we feed bread to the swans
And then over the footbridge
to the woods beyond
We walk ourselves weary
You and I
There's just this moment
I light a campfire
away from the path
We lie in the bluebells
A Woodpecker laughs
Time passes slowly
Our hearts entwined
All of the dark times left behind
The day is done
The sun sinks low
We fold up the blanket
It's time to go
We walk ourselves weary
Arm in arm
Back through the twilight
Home again
We're home again
We waltz in the moonlight
and the embers' glow
So much behind us
Still far to go
Thank you very much indeed.
We're gonna take a short break, about 20 minutes. We'll be right back.
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 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
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened 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 painter, you piper You prisoner
And shine
Mr Dick Parry.
This is Fat Old Sun.
When the fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evenin' birds are calling
Summer Sunday and a year
The sound of music in my ears
Distant bells, new mown grass
Smells so sweet
By the river holding hands
Roll me up and lay me down
And if you sit
don't make a sound
Pick your feet up off the ground
And if you hear
as the warm night falls
A silver sound from a tongue so strange
Sing to me, sing to me
When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evenin' birds are calling
Children's laughter in my ears
The last sunlight disappears
And if you sit
don't make a sound
Pick your feet up off the ground
And if you hear
as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange
Sing to me, sing to me
Where were you
when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by
from my window watching
And where were you
when I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say
and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight
into the shining sun
Lost in thought
and lost in time
While the seeds of life
and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain
fell dark and slow
While I pondered on
this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past
and coming back to life
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And I headed straight
into the shining sun
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
The ringing of the Division Bell had begun
Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed-of world
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever
Overhead the albatross
hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the wheres or whys
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
And no-one speaks and no-one tries
And no one flies around the sun
Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky
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 pan' in the war
for a lead role in a cage
Howl wish, howl 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
Thank you very much indeed.
Just inviting David and Graham back up here.
We're going to sing one of their songs for you now.
This song is for old times.
Find the cost
of freedom
Buried in the ground
Mother Earth
will swallow you
Lay your body down
Find the cost
of freedom
Buried in the ground
Mother Earth
will swallow you
Lay your body
down
Before we finish...
I'd like to invite Mr David Bowie up here to sing a song for you.
Thank you very much.
I hope I warrant that.
Any time, David.
David Gilmour.
Thank you so much for the invitation.
Thank you.
One more?
Hello
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become
comfortably numb
I have become
comfortably numb
Okay
Just a little pin prick
There 'Il be no more
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on, it's time to go
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown The dream is gone
And I have become
comfortably numb
Thank you very much indeed. Good night to you.
Thank you very much indeed. Good night.