until I can't sing any more?
Should I sing until I can't sing any more?
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?



Poles apart

(Gilmour/Samson/Laird-Clowes)

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

Hey, you!
Did you ever realise 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

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?

I never thought that you'd lose
That light in your eyes



Marooned

(Gilmour/Wright)

Instrumental track



A great day for freedom

(Gilmour/Samson)

On the day the wall came down
They threw the locks onto the ground
And with glasses high we raised a cry
For freedom has arrived

On the day the wall came down
The ship of fools had finally run a ground
Promises lit up the night
Like paper doves in flight

I dreamed you have 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 for 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



Wearing the inside out

(Wright/Moore)

From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Didn't recognise I'd become
No more than alive, I'd barely survive
In a word overrun

Won't hear a sound from my mouth
I've spent too long on the inside out
My skin is cold to the human touch
This bleeding heart's not beating much

He's curled into the corner
But still the screen is flickering
With an endless steam of garbage
To curse the place

In a sea of a random images
The self destructing animal
Waiting for the waves to break

I murmured a wow of silence and now
I don't even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light I turn on the night
Wear its darkness with an empty smile

I'm creeping back to life
My nervous system all awry
I'm wearing the inside out

Look at him now, he's paler somehow
But he's coming around
He's starting to choke, it's been so long since he spoke
Well, he can have the words right from my mouth

And with these words I can see
Clear through the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again

I'm holding out for the day
When all the clouds have blown away
I'm with you now, can speak your name
Now we can hear ourselves again

He's standing on the threshold
Caught in fiery anger
And hurled into the furnace
He'll curse the place

He's torn in all directions
And still the screen is flickering
Waiting for the flames to break



Take it back

(Gilmour/Ezrin/Samson/Laird-Clowes)

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 someday

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 someday

Now I have seen the warnings
Screaming from all sides
It's easy to ingore them
God knows that 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

She could take it back
She will take it back someday
She could take it back
She will take it back someday

She will take it back
She might take it back someday



Coming back to life

(Gilmour)

Where were you when I was burned and broken?
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless?
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me

While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight
Into the shining sun

Lost in thoughts and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past
And coming back to life

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight
Into the shining sun



Keep talking

(Gilmour/Wright/Samson)

"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happenend 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"



Lost for words

(Gilmour/Samson)

I was spending my time in the doldrums
I was caught in a cauldron of hate
I felt persecuted and paralysed
I thought that everything else would just wait

While you are wasting your time on your enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night

To martyr yourself to caution
Is not going to help at all
Because there'll be no safety in numbers
When the right one walks out of the door

Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a worls of isolation
While the ivy grows over the door

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask: "Could we wipe the slate clean?"
But they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can't win



High hopes

(Gilmour/Samson)

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
When 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