Pink Floyd

Released: March 28, 1994

Songwriter: Nick Laird-Clowes Polly Samson David Gilmour

Producer: David Gilmour Bob Ezrin

[Verse 1]
Did you know
It was all going to go so wrong for you?
And did you see
It was all going to be so right for me?
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you’d never lose that light in your eyes?

[Verse 2]
Hey you
Did you ever realize what you’d become?
And did you see
That it wasn’t only me you were running from?
Did you know all the time but it
Never bothered you anyway?
Leading the blind while I stared out
The steel in your eyes

[Instrumental Break 2:11 - 4:11]

[Verse 3]
The rain fell slow
Down on all the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you
And the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know?
(Did you know, did you know, did you know)
(Did you know, did you know, did you know)
(Did you know, did you)
I never thought that you’d lose that light in your eyes

[Instrumental Outro 5:12 - 7:03]

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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