Lyrics for Lent
“Wish You Were Here” is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. It calls to mind people and places as I’ve journey through life. I experience it as lament. The conversations I wanted to have, but didn’t. The questions I have now, looking back to learn for the dreams and vision of tomorrow.
It is the second verse that always draws my attention. It reminds me that I don’t want to be comfortably numb, and yet, my choices. Things I have done and left undone that are part of my reality. It’s not guilt. It is fact. It is perception. Learn from it or be captive to it.
“Wish You Were Here.” It is fits my following Jesus.
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?
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
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
Songwriters: David Gilmour / Roger WatersWish You Were Here (Live, Delicate Sound Of Thunder) lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave, BMG Rights Management, Concord Music Publishing LLC