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Pink Floyd...."Us, and THEM" (Original Post) Crutchez_CuiBono Oct 2018 OP
You are now Crutchez the ruler in my book.... Glamrock Oct 2018 #1
Thank you. Crutchez_CuiBono Oct 2018 #3
Right back atcha buddy! Glamrock Oct 2018 #5
Ahhh Ohiogal Oct 2018 #2
Heh heh. Crutchez_CuiBono Oct 2018 #4
yeah! Glamrock Oct 2018 #6
Thanks. BootinUp Oct 2018 #7
One of the seminal songs of my life. ZZenith Oct 2018 #8
More awesome Floyd below! BootinUp Oct 2018 #9
"On the Turning Away" TygrBright Nov 2018 #10
The closer was always my jam from Momentary Lapse ... mr_lebowski Nov 2018 #11
Nice! Crutchez_CuiBono Nov 2018 #12

ZZenith

(4,119 posts)
8. One of the seminal songs of my life.
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 11:06 PM
Oct 2018

Can never forget eleven-year-old me, sitting in my blacklight-lit bedroom with this song on the headphones. My father had recently returned from Vietnam, having killed thousands upon thousands of peasant farmers for the U.S. Government, and he was having a very hard time “readjusting” to life back home, and this song was the first thing that had made any sense to me in a long, long time.

Forever indebted to the Floyd.

TygrBright

(20,756 posts)
10. "On the Turning Away"
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 12:01 AM
Nov 2018


On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand

Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away

It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known

Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud

On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord

Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerized as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night

No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside

Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away?

hopefully,
Bright
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