Lyrics for Pink Moon as interpreted by Sweet Blue Way

Pink Moon Lyrics
Saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall
Pink Moon gonna get ye all
And it's a pink moon

Yes, a pink moon
Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon
Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon

I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall
Pink moon gonna get ye all
And it's a pink moon

Yes, a pink moon

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ShiverForMe
01-17-2002

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i think the pink moon is death. mostly because of the line "and none of you stand so tall, pink moon gonna get you all" eventually everyone is going to die, no matter how big and important they are. also because a moon comes at the end of the day and death comes at the end of life.

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kananat
01-17-2002

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actually, shiverforme, i believe that you're right. i think i once read something about this song and it was actually written right before nick drake committed suicide. i may have my facts mixed up, but this was, in a way, his suicide note to the world.

if i'm wrong, i apologize, but i'm pretty sure it was about nick drake and the song "pink moon."

and, if any of you are wondering what this song sounds like, it was in the volkswagen commercials for the cabrio. it's a very mellow, beautiful song.

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SandwichPunk
01-19-2002

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kananat,
they havent said for sure if it was suicide or an accident.
many great muscicians have had similar deaths to that of nick drake, look at hendrix.

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Bilbobaggins
02-11-2002

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Nick Drake used to play his guitar and sing in the studio facing the wall because he was so shy. What a waste of a life.

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masterb8er10
04-16-2002

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A waste of life? Piss off you whanker. Nick was one of the greatest writers of this past century. Only now are people beginning to see this. Sadly, you do not hear what the rest of us hear. A great man who died by accident. If you want to read a man that was just like Drake, read any of Keats' poems. They are too much alike. Black-eyed dog is a song about his death too.

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emo_SavestheDay
04-27-2002

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Yeah, Nick Drake was one of the greatest musicians that died tragically too early. Kind of like Jeff Buckley... gawd, that guy was a genious.

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rockstar001
05-09-2002

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actually , "black-eyed dog..." was the song he had written before he died...

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punchyk
05-18-2002

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Yes black eyed dog was a song about death, written soon before he died, but the entire album "Pink Moon", his third and last studio album, was in many was a bleak testement to his growing depression. FYI Drake died of an overdose of prescribed antidepressants, his parents are convinced that it was an accident, but we will never know for sure.

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deliriumtrigger
05-27-2002

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yeah, i've heard some different stories on it, like one said he took an extra one to get to sleep, and overdosed, another said he got the bottles mixed up and thought he was taking his sleeping pills and o.d.'ed. and i think the "waste of life" comment mean it was a waste that he died, and wasn't meant to be negative. i agree, nick was one of the greatest songwriters to ever live


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myhotelyear
05-30-2002

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i think this song is about volkswagen cabrio and how every time you see one coming it's just so goddamned cute that you can't help but say "awww, it's a girl!"

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tigerlily83
07-12-2002

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In the Dark Ages, a pink moon was considered omnious and somewhat apocolyptic. I think it's hilarious that they were playing this in the VW commercial with all the kids in the car-- "Pink moon gonna get you all"= drive VW, then die. Nick Drake songs sound so mellow and peaceful, so the advertising agency didn't bother looking more into the lyrics--to see if it was actually a positive song (which it isn't).

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fromthemorning
07-13-2002

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yeah I think the first comment AND the last are completely right. it's about both (as I see it). The "Pink moon" (or any full moon) was seen as a bad thing (mainly because of the catholic belief in the apocolypse).

But there is also a different interpretation. the pink moon is, according to farmers, the april moon, the moon of renewal. suggesting reincarnation.
note that the song repeats, but has an interlude part with the piano after the first half. you begin living and knowing that death is going to catch up with you no matter what. then you realize and accept death (the pink pink pink part) and the piano is your time inbetween lives and then birth. And you realize that everything is really the same in the end.

I think :)

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fugazifathead
07-30-2002

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isn't it funny to think that maybe he just wrote this song about the moon on some random night? we always try and find these deep, psychological meanings behind his beautiful songs...but maybe he just decided he wanted to write a pretty song about a moon. you never know.

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fromthemorning
08-02-2002

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hmm I really can't see it that way. some of his songs were written over a 4 year period. He put his life into his music.

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brn2sailaway
08-30-2002

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regardless of the fact that he is dead and that we don't know if it was suicide or an accident, one can't help but
give him nothing but praises for his music and his style.

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synthfreek
09-26-2002

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Noone ever mentions Nick's guitar playing/style. If anyone plays guitar(I have for many MANY years) I dare you to try and learn a few songs. You'll probably spend days just trying to figure out the weird tunings he used. Almost always using a capo to boot. Tunings like EBBEBE with a capo on the sixth fret???!!! On top of that his strings would often be in-between notes(like between an F# and a G) and vary from song to song. Am I losing you?

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Bobo192
09-26-2002

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My dad told me exactly the same thing about this song about the capos and such. I don't understand it, but I wouldn't mind someone explaining, heh.

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3ITEMSnoLESSs281
10-13-2002

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nick drake is great to listen to when you are in that mood...half depressed and half happy. it gets you thinking straight. ahh this song just makes me smile i love to just sit and play my guitar to it =)

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synthfreek
10-14-2002

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For Nick Drake fans---John Fahey album called America. Don't know why it connects to me in the same way as Nick but man it gets me in that "sad but happy" way also.

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c.f
03-10-2003

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agreed he does do some creative stuff with tunings and capos....but once you know the capo and tuning, his songs are pretty easy to play....still absolutley brilliant. I feel the biggest shape is that hes not very well known to the mainstream public. For the most part the only people who know who Nick Drake, are those who saw the VW commercial

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Title_Track
03-30-2003

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Actually, I've read the Nick Drake biography and everyone around him, his friends and family all agreed that right before he died he was just starting to get happy again. He was really optimistic about Pink Moon and that was a first because he had always been so negative about everything. So friends and family and even fans have a good reason to believe his death was an accident. After reading about his life it's hard to imagine he'd kill himself. From the view I've read I feel that as long as he was making music he would have no reason to kill himself. Everything else in the world could have brought him down but he loved making music and was planning on making it for many, many years to come. But as for what 'fugazifathead' said, this song isn't just about a moon. A lot of Nick's songs had references to depression and death and people barely noticed after his death. He was depressed... that's the sort of stuff musicians write about when they're depressed. This isn't just a song about a moon on a beautiful night. Trust me.

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messengerbird
06-21-2003

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no one even thought to maybe suggest he was on a hallucinagetic or a similiar drug. i mean when ive smoked pot before, i had the craziest image of the big dipper coming down to swoop us all up one day. haha i dont know why. but in music, my passion is the lyrics and what they mean.. and i just love not knowing exactly what it means, only he will know..alot of musicians dont say what their music is about, but im sure it was about something beautifully depressing which i love. i love a song that can make me tear up, and damn, this one sure can. :) i cant believe i never knew his music before now..its almost shameful of me. he was such a great artist..his voice, the lyricism, the melodies..his weird guitar style. wow. lovem lovem lovem. wish he was still around. i honestly hate to believe his death was suicidal, i hate to think some one could let depression go that far and miss out on the best things in life. esp himself. and as far as him facing the wall when he recorded, so what? what the hell does that have to do with the quality of his amazing music? NOTHING! it was just his style, his shyness, big whoop.

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muchthanmore
09-29-2004

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I think maybe 20% to 30% of what makes Drakes music so inspiring, exciting and 'mystical', if you like, is becaus of his personality. He was a guy who had a great air of enigma and that really does comethrough in his songs. Not least this one.

And i fell i have to stick up for the Bilbo Baggins guy at the top because someone had a go at him completely unfairly and took him way out of context. He meant it was a waste that he died the way he did. That's what he meant.

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rossx
12-25-2004

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to anyone who's only heard of nick drake because of a volkswagen commercial, this sounds alot better after you've heard his other songs (like fruit tree)

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Mnementh
01-27-2005

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I don't think so much as death as much as the inevitable. Like how trying to hide the truth and being afraid to admit it to yourself always comes back on you and getting you in the end. Like "fromthemoring" offered about renewal and the coming of spring, I think the song suggests that the Pink Moon is coming and it will get you no matter who you think you are, and that its up to you to embrace it and do away with the old lies you have been keeping to yourself and looking at who you really are. Only then will your "spring" come to you.

Anyway, that's just my interpratation, what do I really kown?? It was a different time back then.

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