"Echoes" lyrics
"Echoes"
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the wheres or whys
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun
Cloudless every day you fall
Upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky
Thanks to Wilbur Goltermann, Syd, Keith Schulte, Marky, Phil Jensen for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Syd Barrett
This song was composed from a collection of different musical experiments made by the band, which had been left over from previous sessions. The band then arranged the pieces to make a 23-minute-long composition.
The seagull sound of this song was created by a mistake with David Gilmour's guitar set-up. Richard Wright explained, "One of the roadies had plugged his wah-wah pedal in back to front, which created this huge wall of feedback. He played around with that and created this beautiful sound."
"Echoes" was used in the band's film "Live at Pompeii". They separated it into two parts to be the opening and the closing tracks.
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