Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd
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  • b_side7995/4/2026

    Love how Mason barely plays anything for the first 3 minutes and then absolutely drives the song.

  • GilmourDream24105/4/2026

    My dad played this album when I was six. Took me twenty more years to understand it.

  • HiddenChannel25105/4/2026

    Wait what version are you listening to? Mine sounds different on Apple Music.

  • EchoesEdith85/4/2026

    For my money, the most cinematic four minutes Pink Floyd ever cut.

  • cassette_631585/4/2026

    Yes! And that's why I keep coming back to this album.

  • FloydHead105/4/2026

    The drum tone on this record is a master class. Mason never gets enough credit.

  • ChromeHumanoid105/4/2026

    I keep thinking the second solo is the climax, but no — it's actually the breakdown around 4:30.

  • pulse_listener_915/4/2026

    My dad played this album when I was six. Took me twenty more years to understand it.

  • octopus9695/4/2026

    Roy Harper crashed the session and changed the song forever. Total accident.

  • ChromeHumanoid105/4/2026

    Ha, I always thought I was the only one who heard it this way.

  • MoonRisingFan52105/4/2026

    Compare the studio mix to the 1994 Pulse mix and tell me which is canon. I dare you.

  • EclipseRoar95/4/2026

    Same — discovered it through a friend in college and never looked back.

  • VinylVortex75/4/2026

    Genuine question: is this song actually about who I think it's about?

  • ObscuredByClouds76105/4/2026

    Hard agree. The album sequencing carries this entire track.

  • DailyFloydReviewer105/4/2026

    Funny how a song this gentle ends up being the loudest thing on the record. The sparseness is the whole point.

  • About this song

    Wish You Were Here is about the detached feeling many of us float through life with.

    Source: www.songfacts.com ·

    Songwriters

    David Gilmour, Roger Waters

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