The Darkest Side of the Moon - Breathe - Pink Floyd - Pop Songs and their Meanings
Since the release Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in Spring 1973, there has been enormous speculation regarding the meaning of the lyrics. A recurring theme running through the album is that the good and often banal things, happiness, hope and the possibility of achieving independence, represented by the sun, are overshadowed and are finally eclipsed by the bad things, madness, violence, war and death, represented by the moon.
Life begins and ends with darkness, with a momentary place in sun when everything under the sun is in tune but ultimately the darkness prevails and the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
Life begins and ends with darkness, with a momentary place in sun when everything under the sun is in tune but ultimately the darkness prevails and the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
Speak to Me - Pop & Rock Songs and their Meanings
Each track on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, reflects a stage in the human life cycle, and the conditions and hard realities encountered as we pass through each life stage. In Speak to Me, the opening track, the stage is set depicting a world of madness and irrationality. In background, we hear the noises of everyday life. This is the background that our lives, the heartbeats, are determined by. The clocks are ticking, the ka-ching of a cash register is relentless and deranged laughter is heard all around.
Speak to Me - Lyrics (Voiceover)
I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands...
I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad...
Each track on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, reflects a stage in the human life cycle, and the conditions and hard realities encountered as we pass through each life stage. In Speak to Me, the opening track, the stage is set depicting a world of madness and irrationality. In background, we hear the noises of everyday life. This is the background that our lives, the heartbeats, are determined by. The clocks are ticking, the ka-ching of a cash register is relentless and deranged laughter is heard all around.
Speak to Me - Lyrics (Voiceover)
I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands...
I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad...
Breathe - Pop & Rock Songs and their Meanings
Breathe, the second track on Dark Side of the Moon, depicts starting out in a mad and irrational world. The start of the race and the first stage of the human life cycle is signalled by a human heartbeat. The early stage of life is a world of possibility under the influence of the sun, where you can be all you can be. At the outset you need not be afraid to care.
In a world of possibility you can, Look around and choose your own ground, be your own person.
However, the wolf is always at the door. The demands of life in an irrational world,
make us run like a rabbit, performing the banal and futile tasks of the world we have entered, run, rabbit run...dig that hole...and when at last the work is done, don't sit down it's time to dig another one.
In the dull monotony and routines of the world be can forget the world of happiness and possibility, forget the sun.
Breathe, the second track on Dark Side of the Moon, depicts starting out in a mad and irrational world. The start of the race and the first stage of the human life cycle is signalled by a human heartbeat. The early stage of life is a world of possibility under the influence of the sun, where you can be all you can be. At the outset you need not be afraid to care.
In a world of possibility you can, Look around and choose your own ground, be your own person.
However, the wolf is always at the door. The demands of life in an irrational world,
make us run like a rabbit, performing the banal and futile tasks of the world we have entered, run, rabbit run...dig that hole...and when at last the work is done, don't sit down it's time to dig another one.
In the dull monotony and routines of the world be can forget the world of happiness and possibility, forget the sun.
Breathe - Lyrics - Pop & Rock Songs and their Meanings
Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.
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.
Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.
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.
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