"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 in 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.
Threatened 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!"
“My head kissed the ground
I was half the way down treading the sand
Please, please lift a hand
I’m only a person whose armbands beat on his hands
Hang tall, won’t you miss me?
Wouldn’t you miss me at all?”
That’s a hilarious quote^. I’ve always liked Brian’s hairstyle.
"You got to be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes and when you’re on the street
You got to be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking
And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You’ll get the chance to put the knife in
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know, it’s going to get harder, and harder, and harder
As you get older
Yeah, and in the end you’ll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer
And when you lose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down all alone
Dragged down by the stone."
"I have sinned dear Father, Father I have sinned
Try and help me Father
Won’t you let me in? Liar
Nobody believes me, Liar
Why don’t they leave me alone?
Sire I have stolen, stolen many times
Raised my voice in anger
When I know I never should
Liar, oh ev’rybody deceives me
Liar, why don’t you leave me alone.
“We were talking about the love that’s gone so cold,
and the people who gain the world and lose their soul.
They don’t know, they can’t see—are you one of them?
When you’ve seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there—
And the time will come when you see we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.”