Lyrics to
The Trial

This version of The Trial was released by Pink Floyd in 1979.

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Good morning Worm your honour
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
This will not do

CALL THE SCHOOLMASTER

I always said he’d come to no good
In the end your honour
If they’d let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder
Let me hammer him today

Crazy toys in the attic I am crazy
Truly gone fishing
They must have taken my marbles away
Crazy toys in the attic he is crazy

You little shit, you’re in it now
I hope they throw away the key
You should talked to me more often
Than you did, but no you had to
Go your own way. Have you broken any homes up lately?

“Just five minutes Worm your honour him and me alone”

Baaaaaabe
Come to mother baby let me hold you in my arms
M’Lord I never wanted him to get in any trouble
Why’d he ever have to leave me
Worm your honour let me take him home

Crazy over the rainbow I am crazy
Bars in the window
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I came in
Crazy over the rainbow he is crazy

The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible, there’s no need for
The jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before of
Some one more deserving
The full penalty of law
The way you made them suffer
Your exquisite wife and mother
Fills me with an urge to defecate
Since my friend you have revealed your deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers

Tear down the wall

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Pink Floyd has released many songs over the years besides The Trial. Pink Floyd released songs from 1967 to 1994 spanning across albums like The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Relics, Obscured By Clouds, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, Works, The Final Cut, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, and The Division Bell. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Pink Floyd.

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About Lyrics and The Trial by Pink Floyd

The lyrics to The Trial are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Pink Floyd used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to The Trial have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Pink Floyd and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Trial by Pink Floyd. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Trial" means the words set to the music of The Trial, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Pink Floyd. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Trial and the lyrics to The Trial are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Pink Floyd who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Trial, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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