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__ Shine on You Crazy Diamond- Pink Floyd __ //Wish You Were Here (1975)//

//Shine on You Crazy Diamond// reflects Pink Floyd’s majesty and greatness through decades of music, all in just 15 minutes. The mystical atmosphere created, with a great variety of sounds and rhythms in the background and a breathtaking soloist guitar performance on the hands of the greatest Gilmour, transports the listener to the limits of delight.  With few but clear lyrics with very strong meaning, this song, along with the whole album //Wish You Were Here//, is the result of that perfection that artists only reach after much experimentation, the masterpiece of a true alchemist.
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__**What am I going to cover?**__

- What it talks about and lyrics analysis - Lyrics - Importance of this song

**__What does it talk about? __** The loss of a great member of the group, Syd Barret, a brilliant mind that got lost in the world of drugs. Syd Barret was one of the founders and more creative members of the band, but had to quit due to his mental instability. The reference to him is all along the song, principally referring to him as a “crazy diamond”.

In the first verse he is referred to as a “legend”, but at the same time a “martyr” because of his addiction to drugs. They also make reference to his addiction and the time he found himself when he got introduced to drugs, considering it an early age, when he was too immature to have fame, which would lead him to not be able to manage it correctly and fall into addiction.

The second verse reflects his ambitions and what happened to him. He is also called a “prisoner”, meaning his dependence and need of drugs, a “painter” and a “piper”. In the first line of the second verse we can judge they didn’t approve of him being introduced to drugs at such an early age, as it says “You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon”. This line shows his ambitions, as he “cries for the moon”. The fact of “reaching for the secret too soon” refers to the consumption of drugs, as the effect of the drugs is considered the revelation of a secret.

__**Lyrics **__

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Shine on you crazy diamond. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">You were caught in the cross fire of childhood and stardom. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Blown on the steel breeze. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Come on you target for faraway laughter. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Shine on you crazy diamond. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Shine on you crazy diamond. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Well you wore out your welcome with random precision. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Rode on the steel breeze. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Come on you raver, you seer of visions. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

**__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Importance of this song __** <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">This song transmits to me a sense of interior peace. The apparent simplicity of the tune discovers new sounds each time you listen to it again, and each time I listen to it I come across new possible meanings to some of the lyrics. Together with the rest of the songs in the album it provides a glimpse to the decade of the 70s.

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