Lyrics to
Wish You Were Here

This version of Wish You Were Here was released by Pink Floyd in 1975.

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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 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.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Wish You Were Here, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Pink Floyd. Some of the lyrics to Wish You Were Here have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Pink Floyd and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Wish You Were Here if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Wish You Were Here" means the words set to the music of Wish You Were Here, 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 Wish You Were Here and the lyrics to Wish You Were Here 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 Wish You Were Here, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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