It's my opinion that "Wish You Were Here" is sort of a sarcastic remark. You know, like those people that go on vacation to Bermuda and send a postcard back saying "Wish you were here". So he's in this miserable place and "hey wanna' join us?"
Also you can take it another way. If you look at the cover of the album titled "Wish You Were Here", you see a man on fire shaking hands with a man not on fire. You could take that as a "misery loves company" sort of thing. Let me catch you on fire so you can relate to my pain.
Your second interpretation seems to fit better than the first, seems like he's trying to say, "wish you were here" as in, I want you to know what it's like. In the first part of the song he says, "So you think you can tell heaven from hell..." and so its as if the other person thinks he knows pain and pleasure and he's trying to tell him to experience it in his shoes and then he would know.
Your second interpretation seems to fit better than the first, seems like he's trying to say, "wish you were here" as in, I want you to know what it's like. In the first part of the song he says, "So you think you can tell heaven from hell..." and so its as if the other person thinks he knows pain and pleasure and he's trying to tell him to experience it in his shoes and then he would know.
It's my opinion that "Wish You Were Here" is sort of a sarcastic remark. You know, like those people that go on vacation to Bermuda and send a postcard back saying "Wish you were here". So he's in this miserable place and "hey wanna' join us?"
Also you can take it another way. If you look at the cover of the album titled "Wish You Were Here", you see a man on fire shaking hands with a man not on fire. You could take that as a "misery loves company" sort of thing. Let me catch you on fire so you can relate to my pain.
Your second interpretation seems to fit better than the first, seems like he's trying to say, "wish you were here" as in, I want you to know what it's like. In the first part of the song he says, "So you think you can tell heaven from hell..." and so its as if the other person thinks he knows pain and pleasure and he's trying to tell him to experience it in his shoes and then he would know.
Your second interpretation seems to fit better than the first, seems like he's trying to say, "wish you were here" as in, I want you to know what it's like. In the first part of the song he says, "So you think you can tell heaven from hell..." and so its as if the other person thinks he knows pain and pleasure and he's trying to tell him to experience it in his shoes and then he would know.