Pink Floyd

Released: June 29, 1968

Songwriter: Richard Wright

Producer: Norman Smith

[Verse 1]
Marigolds are very much in love
But he doesn’t mind
Picking up his sister, he makes his way into the see-saw land
All the way
She smiles

[Hook]
She goes up while he goes down, down

[Verse 2]
Sits on a stick in the river
Laughter in his sleep
Sister’s throwing stones, hoping for a hit
He doesn’t know so then

[Hook]
She goes up while he goes down, down

[Bridge]
Another time, aaah
Another day, aaah
A brother’s way to leave
Another time, aaah
Another day, aaah

[Verse 3]
She’ll be selling plastic flowers
On a Sunday afternoon
Picking up weeds, she hasn’t got the time to care
All can see
He’s not there

[Hook 2]
She grows up for another man, and he’s down

[Outro]
Another time, another day
A brother’s way to leave
Another time, another day
Another time, another day
A brother’s way to leave

Pink Floyd was a British rock band who managed to carve a path for progressive and psychedelic music in a way that was uniquely fascinating at the time and has remained equally momentous in the modern age. The name “Pink Floyd” came from two blues musicians that founding member Syd Barrett idolized—Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

The band was formed in 1965 London by Barrett (guitars, vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass), and Richard Wright (keyboards). Sometime after releasing their debut album, 1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the group saw the addition of a second singer-guitarist, David Gilmour. This acted largely as a means of replacing Barrett, who was forced to leave in 1968 for mental health reasons, resulting in Waters taking over as the main vocalist.

The band broke into the mainstream with 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon, an album that became one of the best-selling and most influential records in music history. Their follow-up efforts, 1975’s Wish You Were Here and 1977’s Animals, also sold well. However, the band started to see some in-fighting while making their next album, a rock opera about how Waters felt frustrated and detached from his audience. Waters seemingly became extremely controlling, firing Wright over disputes about touring and his contributions to the album. The result, 1979’s The Wall, became the best-selling double album of all time. It spawned iconic songs such as the #1 hit, “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2,” and the melodic “Comfortably Numb.”

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