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The Story of Wish You Were Here (Documentary). We all say that we understand that money doesn’t buy happiness, but we don’t really believe it, because we keep choosing more money and the material things it buys over happy experiences.

YouTube title: Pink Floyd - The Story of Wish You Were Here (720p with subtitles) 49:58Edginton, John (Director) (26 June 2012). We traded our trees for hot ashes; our cool breeze (spending time in nature) for the hot air of a warming planet (or the bluster of our politicians and other salesmen); and our clean drinking water for poisoned wells and frequent earthquakes where they never before existed (fracking) – all for the sake of money.Most of us have given up our walk-on parts in the war for change, in exchange for the cold comfortable numbness of the cage – the safe, predictable, air conditioned, tread-mill (“running over the same old ground” or swimming in circles in a “fish bowl”) modern slavery of working for the corporate masters just to make enough to pay the corporate masters. “Wish You Were Here” is the title track on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album.

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I think that’s the beauty of the song, it can mean different things to different people. When he heard the song later, it inspired him to quit smoking.While not a single upon release, it earned this status with a version recorded on the live album I’ve always taken the meaning of this song quite differently. 324 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Waters suggests that unless you’re moving, perpetually changing and challenging yourself, you’re in a cage.It says keep revising everything you think you know or believe, because otherwise you become absent, out of touch with the dynamism of the real world, also saying that its far more important to be part of something larger than yourself, highlighting his self-admittedly “bolshevy” attitude to life, than it is to fulfill your pride by being the centre of attention.The “Wish You Were Here” refers not specifically to Syd, but to everyone who has failed to make that leap and be free of the mental constraints of your imposed “comfort zone”, and that they are truly absent. I really wish you were here and we were there again.wow this is truly beautiful– it’s so intriguing to learn about what the thought process is while creating such a masterpiece.To me, it’s always been about your past self, thinking that fame and fortune is everything you ever wanted and needed, yet once you finally get it, which Syd did, you go crazy because it’s not what you thought.

The song’s lyrics encompass writer This was a rare case of the Pink Floyd primary songwriters Roger Waters and David Gilmour mutually collaborating on a song – they rarely wrote together.

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In 2011, the song was ranked No.

“Wish You Were Here” is the title track on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album. "Wish You Were Here" made its stage debut on the band's Gilmour has made the song a part of most of his tours, and included a live version on his "Wish You Were Here" appeared as the fifth track on "Wish You Were Here" served as the fourth and final single from Edginton, John (Director) (26 June 2012). Roger Waters has noted that the collaboration between himself and David Gilmour on the song was "really good.

UK: Eagle Rock Entertainment.YouTube title: Pink Floyd - The Story of Wish You Were Here (720p with subtitles) 52:38 Gilmour and Waters have both said that although they think of Syd when they play it, its not about him, and references the general absence of people who have been left behind as we strive to advance ourselves from the mire of “comfortable” stagnationThis song is more literal to me in the context of musicians whom have sold out to commercialism and the almighty dollar.Do you even know the difference between playing on a small wooden stage in a warm, sunny, green field and playing on huge, cold, mega-stage in a commercialized auditorium surrounded by cold, steel, rails?

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