[douglasdickel]

Echoes
Pink Floyd
Meddle (1971)

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide comes wallowing 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 stares 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 the land and no one crosses there alive
And no one speaks and no one tries
And no one flies around the sun

And now this is the day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall comes 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