Saturday, August 22, 2009

Shine on you crazy diamond

I heard the first few lines of this song first time in toast master's meeting at DeeJay's Toastmaster's Club, Bangalore. I was so impressed with the first few lines that I came back home and listened to the whole song, and to my astonishment it is one of the best thing I've ever read and what surprised me is it came from a psychedelic rock band's album and not some great writer. It was the Pink Floyd band's truibute to their founder member Syd Barrett who went into self imposed seclusion. Today I'm qoting these lines very aptly for one of the most important people in my life who is going through not the same but one of the bad phases of his/her life. He/she has talent but is just not sure about it. He/She has accomplished a lot in life but is going through "nah, I'm not so gud" phase. I'll end my words here and let the Floyd take from here.........

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom,Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger,You legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,You piper, you prisoner, and shine!Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and i'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,And sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!

2 comments:

harshi said...

Hmmmm .... tats th probleem wid most of the ppl ... i hope whoever ur frnd is this msg is put across to him/HER n I hope she changes for the better !!!

P.S : don forget to msg him/HER the blog address !!!

PULKIT TOTLA said...

the message is conveyed.. lol.. tats the problem still u dont realise u r the diamond, sweetheart.. realise ur potential and shine on..