THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
(1973) | LP | UK | Harvest Q4 SHVL 804 (quadrophonic)
The Dark Side of the Moon 1. Speak to Me
2. Breathe
3. On the Run
4. Time
5. The Great Gig in the Sky
6. Money
7. Us and Them
8. Any Colour You Like
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse
THERE IS NO DARK SIDE ОF THE MOON REALLY
AS A MATTER OF FACT IT'S ALL DARK

DAVID GILMOUR - Vocals, Guitars,VCS3
NICK MASON - Drums, Percussion,Tape Effects
RICHARD WRIGHT - Keyboards,Vocals,VCS3
ROGER WATERS - Bass Guitar,Vocals,VCS3,Tape Effects

Dick Parry - Saxophone on "Money" and "Us and Them"
Clare Torry - Vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky"

Recorded at Abbey Road studious, London
Between June 1972 and January 1973




SPEAK TO ME

instrumental
(Mason)





    BREATHE IN THE AIR
Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around and choose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Run, Run rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

(Waters, Gilmour, Wright)





ON THE RUN

instrumental
(Gilmour, Waters)





TIME

Ticking away the moments that make
  up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours
  in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground
  in your home town
Waiting for someone or something
  to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
  staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long
  and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten
  years have got behind you
No one told you when to run,
  you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up
  with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up
  behind you again
The sun is the same in the
  relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day
  closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never
  seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or
  half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
  is the English way
 the time is gone the song is over
  thought I'd something more to say.


        Breathe ( reprise )

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cool and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside
  the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

(Mason, Waters,Wright, Gilmour)





THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY

instrumental
(Wright)





MONEY
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Money, get back
I'm all right, Jack, keep your hands of my stack
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.

Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that
They're giving none away, away, away

(Waters)





US AND THEM
Us and them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
"Forward" he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side

Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside

Down and Out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about.
Out of the way, it's a busy day
And I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.

(Waters, Wright) 




ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE

instrumental
(Gilmour, Mason, Wright)





BRAIN DAMAGE
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path.

The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark foreboding too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane.

You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

(Waters)




ECLIPSE
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
everyone you meet
All that you slight
everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

(Waters)