Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V) Lyrics

Pink Floyd Lyrics

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V)"

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
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

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Thanks to ashley, John Bass, Eddy reddin, Richard Skenderian, damo for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Roger Waters, Rick Wright, David Jon Gilmour

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond” was written about Syd Barrett, the former member of the band, who got mentally ill after the release of their first album. He left the band and was replaced by David Gilmour.

This song, under the name "Shine On", has been played by the band for more than a year before the release, because they wanted to polish their sound during live shows.

During the final mixing sessions of this song in June of 1975, Syd Barrett came into the studios. He wasn't recognized at first, but then the band let him stay for a while. Richard Wright recalled, "He just—for some incredible reason—picked the very day that we were doing a song which was about him."

album: "Wish You Were Here" (1975)

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