The Dark Side Of The Moon [Album]

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON ('1973)

 

1. Speak To Me/Breathe (In the Air)

2. Time

3. Breathe (Reprise)

4. The Great Gig In The Sky

5. Money

6. Us And Them

7. Any Colour You Like

8. Brain Damage

9. Eclipse

 

 

Breathe

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Words by Roger Waters

Music by Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Rick Wright

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Verse]

 

Breathe, breathe in the air.

Don't be afraid to care.

Leave but don't leave me.

Look around and choose your own ground.

 

 

[Chorus]

 

For long you live and high you fly

And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry

All you touch and all you see

Is all your life will ever be.

 

 

[Verse]

 

Run, rabbit run.

Dig that hole, forget the sun,

When at last the work is done

Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.

 

 

[Chorus]

 

For long you live and high you fly

But only if you ride the tide

And balanced on the biggest wave

G D7#9 D7b9 Em [Segue to "On the Run]

You race towards an early grave.

 

 

 

Time

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Words and Music by Roger Waters, Nicholas Mason, David Gilmour and Rick

Wright

 

 

[With clocks, alarms, and bells for approximately 40 seconds]

 

 

N.C.(E) (F#m) (E) (F#m) (E) (F#m) (E) (F#m) (A) (E) (F#m)

 

 

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town

Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

 

 

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.

You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

 

 

[Guitar solo]

 

 

 

 

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking

Racing around to come up behind you again.

The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

 

 

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way

The time is gone, the song is over,

Thought I'd something more to say.

 

 

 

Breathe (Reprise)

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Words by Roger Waters

Music by Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Rick Wright

 

 

 

Home, home again.

I like to be here when I can.

When I come home cold and tired

It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.

Far away across the field

The tolling of the iron bell

Calls the faithful to their knees

To hear the softly spoken magic spell.

 

 

 

 

The Great Gig In The Sky

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Music by Rick Wright

 

 

[Intro]

 

 

 

 

[Vocal scat solo]

 

 

 

 

 

[Spoken: I never said I was afraid of dying.]

 

 

 

 

 

Money

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Words and Music by Roger Waters

 

 

Money, get away.

Get a good job with more pay and you're okay.

Money, it's a gas.

Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.

 

New car, caviar, four star daydream,

 

Think I'll buy me a football team.

 

 

Money, get back.

I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.

Money, it's a hit.

Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.

 

I'm in the high-fidelity first class travelling set

 

And I think I need a Lear jet.

 

 

Money, it's a crime.

Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.

Money, so they say

Is the root of all evil today.

 

But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're

 

giving none away.

 

 

[Vocal ad lib simile with background conversation effects]

 

 

 

Us And Them

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Words by Roger Waters

Music by Roger Waters & Rick Wright

 

 

 

 

 

Us, and them

And after all we're only ordinary men.

Me, and you.

God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.

Forward he cried from the rear

and the front rank died.

The general sat and the lines on the map

moved from side to side.

 

Black and blue

And who knows which is which and who is who.

Up and down.

And in the end it's only round and round and round.

"Haven't you heard? It's a battle of words"

the poster bearer cried.

"Listen son", said the man with the gun

"There's room for you inside."

 

 

 

 

 

Down and out

It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about.

With, without.

And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?

Out of the way, it's a busy day

I've got things on my mind.

For the want of the price of tea and a slice

The old man died.

 

 

 

Any Colour You Like

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Music by Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Rick Wright

 

 

 

 

 

Dm7 G(G7) Dm7 G Dm7 G (G7) (G7sus4)

 

 

 

 

Brain Damage

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Words and Music by Roger Waters

 

[Verse]

 

The lunatic is on the grass

The lunatic is on the grass

Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs

Got to keep the loonies on the path

 

[Verse]

 

The lunatic is in the hall

The lunatics are in my hall

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor

And every day the paper boy brings more

 

[Bridge 1]

 

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon

And if there is no room upon the hill

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

 

[Verse]

 

The lunatic is in my head. (laughter)

The lunatic is in my head

You raise the blade, you make the change

You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane.

 

You lock the door and throw away the key

There's someone in my head but it's not me.

 

[Bridge 2]

 

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear

You shout and no one seems to hear

And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

 

 

 

[Segue to "Eclipse"]

 

Eclipse

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Words and Music by Roger Waters

 

 

All that you touch, and all that you see

All that you taste, all you feel

 

And all that you love, and all that you hate

All you distrust, all you save

 

And all that you give, and all that you deal

And all that you buy, beg, borrow or steal

 

And all you create, and all you destroy

And all that you do, and all that you say

 

And all that you eat, and everyone you meet

And all that you slight and everyone you fight

 

And all that is now, and all that is gone

All that's to come, and everything under

The sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon