Pink Floyd

Released: March 28, 1994

Songwriter: Bob Ezrin Nick Laird-Clowes Polly Samson David Gilmour

Producer: David Gilmour Bob Ezrin

[Instrumental Intro 0:00 - 1:08]

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
She could take it back
She might take it back someday

[Verse 2]
So I spy on her, I lie to her
I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear their 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

[Chorus]
She might take it back, she could take it back some day

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Bridge]
Ring-a-ring o’ roses
A pocket full of posies
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down

[Verse 3]
Now I have seen the warnings, screaming from all sides
It’s easy to ignore them, God knows I’ve tried
All of this temptation, you know it turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn’t see the danger or hear the rising tide

[Chorus]
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

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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