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Breathe

I’ve been listening to Pink Floyd basically non-stop for the past two days now. It’s probably because we heard that tribute band the other night that got me going on this kick, but also because the philosophical nature of a lot of their lyrics is hitting close to home at the moment. The music itself is sublime (Gilmour is one of the greatest guitarists of all time in my opinion, saying nothing of the fantastic bass playing that Waters provided while he was with the band) and when you combine that with their lyrics I can easily say that Pink Floyd is one of the greatest - quite possibly the greatest - bands of all time.

Anyway, one of their songs that I like the most is “Breathe” off of The Dark Side of the Moon. I’ll let the lyrics speak for themselves in this case:

Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don’t be afraid to care.
Leave but don’t leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don’t sit down it’s time to dig another one.

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

I really need to learn to play guitar. Then I need to magically learn to play guitar like David Gilmour.


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3 Responses to “Breathe”

  • 1
    Paul
    February 11th, 2008 00:47

    I see your mind.

  • 2
    gtoddv
    August 2nd, 2008 15:05

    I know this in a older post but just had to comment on the guitar remark. Get MusicL Lab Real Strat and/or Real Guitar. They are very solid VSTi’s. Before I got Real Strat, I used Real Guitar through NI Guitar Rig. Guitar Rig took those acoustic sounds and made them extremely believable electric sounds. I have fooled my lead guitarist with Real Strat. He was always telling me he could tell the difference, but I knew Real Strat was going to slay him!

    Of course having the chops to play like David Gilmour would be a much better experience spiritually.

    Kind of the groove of the post but just had to speak up.

  • 3
    Naim
    August 2nd, 2008 19:03

    Good advice! I’ll definitely check those VSTs out.

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