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Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - V) Lyrics 12 years ago
as lots of people said, this song is written for Syd Barrett. I know a lot about Syd, this is my interpretation:
Remember when you were young - Waters, Gilmour and Syd were close childhood friends
you shone like the sun - Syd was a very bright and smart child
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky - he turned into a psycho because of drug abuse
You reached for the secret too soon - Barrett started doing drugs at quite a young age
you cried for the moon - i got insane (crying for the moon like a wolf)
Threatened by shadows at night - he also had signs of schitzophrenia, which was well fed by all of the drugs
and exposed in the light - everyone saw him being high all the time
come on you painter - i used to go to an artist collage because he was a well painter
you piper - there was a Pink Floyd's album called "the piper at the gates of dawn" while syd was still in the band
You prisoner - poor Barrett was a slave to his drug habbit.

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