I have always thought the song Wish You Were Here was about how people in relationships (whatever kind: marriages, friendships, bandmates, partnerships,etc.) change over time, and their values/principles change with them. People in relationships don't always change in compatible ways, and I think the song is about grieving the loss of a husband/wife, a good friend, anyone with whom you've had a close relationship who has changed in such a way that they are not the person you fell in love with, made friends with, started a project with, and you miss the "old" them. Henceforth, the title "Wish You Were Here." A person does not have to physically be gone to be gone. It is possible to change to a degree that you really are not the same person you once were. However, you stay in that relationship because it is comfortable all the while wishing that it could be as it once was.
So, I think it is a song about loss and mourning that loss even if it is psychological in nature. At least, that is what that song has always meant for me. Loss and mourning and wishing someone hadn't "gone away."
I am replying to myself......hence the name "ADDGirl." I just wanted to add that the last part of the song is what makes me think of loss and change (either physical or mental)
I am replying to myself......hence the name "ADDGirl." I just wanted to add that the last part of the song is what makes me think of loss and change (either physical or mental)
e> "How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
And how we found
The same old fears.
Wish you were here."
It's like everything is the same but it's not really. Everything is different, but in such a subtle fashion that you sense a bit of the other person/people and the way they were, but they aren't. You talk about the same things, you do the same things, you fear the same things, but at some point either you or they or both stepped out. But, it's comfortable and uncomfortable. Hence, the line "How I wish, how I wish you were here..." but they aren't, and they won't be. You can get as nostalgic as you want about the way it once was, but it won't ever be that way again.
Then again, I may have it all wrong. Maybe I should be wishing I was here since I stepped out of my "normal" life about 12 years ago :) It could be about oneself, too,I suppose, and wishing that things wouldn't change. Who knows? It's Pink Floyd....
@ADDGirl When I first listened to the song I interpreted it as a outlook on your own life. The chances we don't take, the dreams we don't fulfill. The "cold comfort" we are familiar with that stops us from reaching out and taking risks that may have been better for us.
@ADDGirl When I first listened to the song I interpreted it as a outlook on your own life. The chances we don't take, the dreams we don't fulfill. The "cold comfort" we are familiar with that stops us from reaching out and taking risks that may have been better for us.
But after recently losing my closest friend, i've fallen into the painful nostalgia. I came back to this song and I find my interpretation of it has changed all together. You have explained it perfectly!!
But after recently losing my closest friend, i've fallen into the painful nostalgia. I came back to this song and I find my interpretation of it has changed all together. You have explained it perfectly!!
@ADDGirl I am sorry to hear of your friend. I am currently dealing with something similar. A very good and close friend of about 30 years is dying and has become very depressed. He used to be the life of the party, but he is no longer. I do miss him a great deal; I just try to remember how he used to be and sometimes I do cry over the "loss" of one of my best friends. "Wish You Were Here" has always had the effect of making me think about the past and how different the present is....
@ADDGirl I am sorry to hear of your friend. I am currently dealing with something similar. A very good and close friend of about 30 years is dying and has become very depressed. He used to be the life of the party, but he is no longer. I do miss him a great deal; I just try to remember how he used to be and sometimes I do cry over the "loss" of one of my best friends. "Wish You Were Here" has always had the effect of making me think about the past and how different the present is. It has always made me really think. The whole album makes me think about change and loss and trying to get through it the best you can.
Again. I am sorry to hear of your friend. It's hard to lose people you love.
I have always thought the song Wish You Were Here was about how people in relationships (whatever kind: marriages, friendships, bandmates, partnerships,etc.) change over time, and their values/principles change with them. People in relationships don't always change in compatible ways, and I think the song is about grieving the loss of a husband/wife, a good friend, anyone with whom you've had a close relationship who has changed in such a way that they are not the person you fell in love with, made friends with, started a project with, and you miss the "old" them. Henceforth, the title "Wish You Were Here." A person does not have to physically be gone to be gone. It is possible to change to a degree that you really are not the same person you once were. However, you stay in that relationship because it is comfortable all the while wishing that it could be as it once was.
So, I think it is a song about loss and mourning that loss even if it is psychological in nature. At least, that is what that song has always meant for me. Loss and mourning and wishing someone hadn't "gone away."
I am replying to myself......hence the name "ADDGirl." I just wanted to add that the last part of the song is what makes me think of loss and change (either physical or mental)
I am replying to myself......hence the name "ADDGirl." I just wanted to add that the last part of the song is what makes me think of loss and change (either physical or mental)
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"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl Year after year, Running over the same old ground. And how we found The same old fears. Wish you were here."It's like everything is the same but it's not really. Everything is different, but in such a subtle fashion that you sense a bit of the other person/people and the way they were, but they aren't. You talk about the same things, you do the same things, you fear the same things, but at some point either you or they or both stepped out. But, it's comfortable and uncomfortable. Hence, the line "How I wish, how I wish you were here..." but they aren't, and they won't be. You can get as nostalgic as you want about the way it once was, but it won't ever be that way again.
Then again, I may have it all wrong. Maybe I should be wishing I was here since I stepped out of my "normal" life about 12 years ago :) It could be about oneself, too,I suppose, and wishing that things wouldn't change. Who knows? It's Pink Floyd....
@ADDGirl When I first listened to the song I interpreted it as a outlook on your own life. The chances we don't take, the dreams we don't fulfill. The "cold comfort" we are familiar with that stops us from reaching out and taking risks that may have been better for us.
@ADDGirl When I first listened to the song I interpreted it as a outlook on your own life. The chances we don't take, the dreams we don't fulfill. The "cold comfort" we are familiar with that stops us from reaching out and taking risks that may have been better for us.
But after recently losing my closest friend, i've fallen into the painful nostalgia. I came back to this song and I find my interpretation of it has changed all together. You have explained it perfectly!!
But after recently losing my closest friend, i've fallen into the painful nostalgia. I came back to this song and I find my interpretation of it has changed all together. You have explained it perfectly!!
@ADDGirl I am sorry to hear of your friend. I am currently dealing with something similar. A very good and close friend of about 30 years is dying and has become very depressed. He used to be the life of the party, but he is no longer. I do miss him a great deal; I just try to remember how he used to be and sometimes I do cry over the "loss" of one of my best friends. "Wish You Were Here" has always had the effect of making me think about the past and how different the present is....
@ADDGirl I am sorry to hear of your friend. I am currently dealing with something similar. A very good and close friend of about 30 years is dying and has become very depressed. He used to be the life of the party, but he is no longer. I do miss him a great deal; I just try to remember how he used to be and sometimes I do cry over the "loss" of one of my best friends. "Wish You Were Here" has always had the effect of making me think about the past and how different the present is. It has always made me really think. The whole album makes me think about change and loss and trying to get through it the best you can.
Again. I am sorry to hear of your friend. It's hard to lose people you love.
Namaste, ADDgirl
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