PINK FLOYD- THE DIVISION BELL
(1994)
David Gilmour - Guitarras, voz, bajo, teclados, programación
Nick Mason - Batería, percusión
Richard Wright - Teclados, voz
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 any more
Play these strings until my fingers are raw
You're so hard to please
What do you want from me.
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
I'm not the one you need
What do you want from me.
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.
What do you want from me
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 residue slipped away . . . slipped away.
Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire.
She could take it back, she might take it back some day
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.
She might take it back, she could take it back some day
Now I have seen the warnings screaming from all sides
It's easy to ignore them and G-d knows I've tried
All of this temptation, it turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide.
She can take it back, she will take it back some day
She can take it back, she will take it back some day
She will take it back, she will take it back some day
For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk.
There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
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).
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
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.
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
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.
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
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 with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world.
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
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.
Forever and ever
