The Division Bell
Pink Floyd
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Digging into The Division Bell - what's your favorite track or standout moment? 🤘
1
Cluster One
06 : 02
2
What Do You Want From Me
04 : 22
3
Poles Apart
07 : 03
4
Marooned
05 : 30
5
A Great Day for Freedom
04 : 17
6
Wearing the Inside Out
06 : 49
7
Take It Back
06 : 13
8
Coming Back to Life
06 : 18
9
Keep Talking
06 : 11
10
Lost for Words
05 : 14
11
High Hopes
08 : 31
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Track Lyrics
What Do You Want From Me Lyrics
[Verse 1: David Gilmour, Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine & Durga McBroom]
As you look around this room tonight
Settle in your seat and dim the lights
Do you want my blood? Do you want my tears?
What do you want? (What do you want from me?)
Should I sing until I can’t sing anymore?
Play these strings 'til my fingers are raw?
[Chorus: Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine & Durga McBroom, David Gilmour, Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine & Durga McBroom]
You're so hard to please
What do you want from me?
[Verse 2: David Gilmour, Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine & Durga McBroom]
Do you think that I know something you don’t know?
(What do you want from me?)
If I don’t promise you the answers, would you go?
(What do you want from me?)
Should I stand out in the rain?
Do you want me to make a daisy chain for you?
[Chorus: Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine & Durga McBroom, David Gilmour, Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine & Durga McBroom]
I’m not the one you need
What do you want from me?
[Bridge: David Gilmour]
You can have anything you want
You can drift, you can dream, even walk on water
Anything you want
You can own everything you see
Sell your soul for complete control
Is that really what you need?
You can lose yourself this night
See inside, there is nothing to hide
Turn and face the light
[Outro: David Gilmour]
What do you want from me?
Poles Apart Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Did you know
It was all going to go so wrong for you?
And did you see
It was all going to be so right for me?
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes?
[Verse 2]
Hey you
Did you ever realize what you'd become?
And did you see
That it wasn't only me you were running from?
Did you know all the time but it
Never bothered you anyway?
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes
[Instrumental Break 2:11 - 4:11]
[Verse 3]
The rain fell slow
Down on all the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you
And the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know?
(Did you know, did you know, did you know)
(Did you know, did you know, did you know)
(Did you know, did you)
I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes
[Instrumental Outro 5:12 - 7:03]
A Great Day for Freedom Lyrics
[Verse 1]
On the day the Wall came down
They threw the locks onto the ground
And with glasses high, we raised a cry
For freedom had arrived
And on the day the Wall came down
The ship of fools had finally run aground
Promises lit up the night
Like paper doves in flight
[Chorus]
I dreamed you had left my side
No warmth, not even pride remained
And even though you needed me
It was clear that I could not do a thing for you
[Verse 2]
Now life devalues day by day
As friends and neighbours turn away
And there’s a change that even with regret
Cannot be undone
Now frontiers shift like desert sands
While nations wash their bloodied hands
Of loyalty, of history
In shades of grey
[Chorus]
I woke to the sound of drums
The music played, the morning sun streamed in
I turned and I looked at you
And all but the bitter residues slipped away
Slipped away
[Guitar Solo]
Wearing the Inside Out Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1: Richard Wright]
From morning to night, I stayed out of sight
Didn’t recognise I’d become
No more than alive, I’d barely survive
In a word, overrun
[Chorus: Richard Wright, Sam Brown, Durga McBroom & Carol Kenyon]
Won’t hear a sound (He’s curled into the corner)
From my mouth (But still the screen is flickering)
I’ve spent too long (With an endless stream of garbage to)
On the inside out (Curse the place)
My skin is cold (In a sea of random images)
To the human touch (The self-destructing animal)
This bleeding heart’s (Waiting for the waves)
Not beating much (To break)
[Verse 2: Richard Wright]
I murmured a vow of silence and now
I don’t even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light, I turn on the night
Wear its darkness with an empty smile
[Bridge: Richard Wright]
I’m creeping back to life, my nervous system all awry
I’m wearing the inside out
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3: David Gilmour, Sam Brown, Durga McBroom & Carol Kenyon]
Look at him now, he’s paler somehow
But he’s coming around
He’s starting to choke, it’s been so long since he spoke
Well, he can have the words right from my mouth
[Verse 4: Richard Wright]
And with these words, I can see
Clear through the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again
[Chorus: Richard Wright, Sam Brown, Durga McBroom & Carol Kenyon]
I’m holding out (He’s standing on the threshold)
For the day (Caught in fiery anger)
When all the clouds (And hurled into the furnace he’ll)
Have blown away (Curse the place)
I’m with you now (He’s torn in all directions)
Can speak your name (And still the screen is flickering)
Now we can hear (Waiting for the flames)
Ourselves again (To break)
[Guitar Solo]
Take It Back Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Her love rains down on me
It's easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing
It sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinkin' all about her
Burning wth rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness
And the earth was on fire
[Chorus]
She could take it back
She might take it back someday
[Verse 2]
So I spy on her, I lie to her
I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising
Rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me
I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit
To see if she will break
[Chorus]
She might take it back
She could take it back someday
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Ring-a-ring o’ roses
A pocket full of posies
A-tishoo, a-tishoo
We all fall down
[Verse 3]
Now I have seen the warnings
Screaming from all sides
It’s easy to ignore them
God knows I’ve tried
All of this temptation
You know it turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn’t see the danger
Or hear the risin' tide
[Chorus]
She can take it back
She will take it back someday
She can take it back
She will take it back someday
She will take it back
She will take it back someday
Coming Back to Life Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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?
‘Cause the things you say and the things you do surround me
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight into the shining sun
[Guitar Solo]
Keep Talking Lyrics
[Intro: Stephen Hawking]
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk
[Verse 1: David Gilmour]
There’s a silence surrounding me
I can’t seem to think straight
I’ll sit in the corner
And no one can bother me
I think I should speak now (Why won’t you talk to me?)
I can’t seem to speak now (You never talk to me)
My words won’t come out right (What are you thinking?)
I feel like I’m drowning (What are you feeling?)
I’m feeling weak now (Why won’t you talk to me?)
But I can’t show my weakness (You never talk to me)
I sometimes wonder (What are you thinking?)
Where do we go from here (What are you feeling?)
[Interlude: Stephen Hawking]
It doesn’t have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2: David Gilmour]
(Why won’t you talk to me?) I feel like I’m drowning
(You never talk to me) You know I can’t breathe now
(What are you thinking?) We’re going nowhere
(What are you feeling?) We’re going nowhere
(Why won’t you talk to me?
You never talk to me
What are you thinking?
Where do we go from here?)
[Outro: Stephen Hawking]
It doesn’t have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
Lost for Words Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I was spending my time in the doldrums
I was caught in a cauldron of hate
I felt persecuted and paralysed
I thought that everything else would just wait
While you are wasting your time on your enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night
To martyr yourself to caution
Is not gonna help at all
‘Cause there’ll be no safety in numbers
When the right one walks out of the door
[Interlude]
"Ladies and gentlemen, the winner by a knockout!"
[Verse 2]
Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a world of isolation
While the ivy grows over the door
So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask "Could we wipe the slate clean?"
But they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can’t win
[Instrumental Outro]
High Hopes Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
[Verse 2]
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 the flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
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
For ever and ever
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro: Steve O'Rourke, Charlie Gilmour]
"Hello?"
"Yeah?"
"Is that Charlie?"
"Yeah"
"Hello, Charlie"
*phone hangs up*
"Great"