Division Bell
Produced by Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour
Released April 5, 1994
"Cluster One"
(Instrumental)
"What Do You Want From Me" (Gilmour/Samson)
As you look around this room tonight Settle
in your seat and dim the lights Do you want my blood, do you
want my tears What do you want What do you
want from me Should I sing until I can't sing any more
Play these strings until my fingers are raw You're so
hard to please What do you want from me Do you
think I know something you don't know What do you want from me
If I don't promise you the answers would you go What do
you want from me Should I stand out in the rain Do
you want me to make a daisy chain for you I'm not the one you
need What do you want from me You can have
anything you want You can drift, you can dream, even walk on
water Anything you want You can own everything
you see Sell your soul for complete control Is
that really what you need You can lose yourself this night
See inside there is nothing to hide Turn and face the
light What do you want from me
"Poles
Apart" (Gilmour, Samson, Laird-Clowes)
Did you know...it was all going to go so wrong for you And
did you see it was all going to be so right for me Why did we
tell you then You were always the golden boy then And
that you'd never lose that light in your eyes Hey you...did you
ever realise what you'd become And did you see that it wasn't
only me you were running from Did you know all
the time but it never bothered you anyway Leading
the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes The
rain fell slow, down on all the roofs of uncertainty I
thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from
me And did you know... I never thought that
you'd lose that light in your eyes
"Marooned"
(Instrumental)
"A Great Day For Freedom"
On the day the wall came down They threw the locks onto
the ground And with glasses high we raised a
cry for freedom had arrived On the day the wall cane down
The Ship of Fools had finally run aground Promises lit
up the night like paper doves in flight I dreamed you had left
my side No warmth, not even pride remained And
even though you needed me It was clear that I could not do a
thing for you Now life devalues day by day As
friends and neighbours turn away And there's a change that,
even with regret, cannot be undone Now frontiers shift
like desert sands While nations wash their bloodied hands
Of loyalty, of history, in shades of gray I woke to the
sound of drums The music played, the morning sun streamed in
I turned and I looked at you And all but the bitted
residue slipped away...slipped away
"Wearing
The Inside Out" (Moore) From
morning to night I stayed out of sight Didn't recognise what I'd
become No more than alive I'd barely survive In
a word...overrun Won't hear a sound From my
mouth I've spent too long On the inside out
My skin is cold To the human touch This
bleeding heart's Not beating much I murmured a
vow of silence and now I don't even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light I turn on the night Wear its
darkness with an empty smile I'm creeping back to life
My nervous system all away I'm wearing the inside out
Look at him now He's paler somehow But
he's coming round He's starting to choke It's
been so long since he spoke Well he can have the words right
from my mouth And with these words I can see Clear
through the clouds that covered me Just give it time then speak
my name Now we can hear ourselves again I'm
holding out For the day When all the clouds
Have blown away I'm with you now Can
speak your name Now we can hear Ourselves
again He's curled into the corner But still
the screen is flickering With an endless stream of garbage to
...curse the place In a sea of random images The
self-destructing animal Waiting for the waves to break
He's standing on the threshold Caught in fiery anger
And hurled into the furnace he'll ...curse the place
He's torn in all directions And the screen is still
flickering Waiting for the flames to break
"Take It
Back" (Gilmour, Samson, Laird-Clowes) Her
love rains down on me easy as the breeze I listen to her
breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea I
was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire
She could take it back, she might take it back some day
So I spy on her, I lie to her, I make promises I cannot
keep Then I hear her laughter rising, rising
from the deep And I make her prove her love to me, I
take all that I can take And I push her to the limit to see
if she will break She might take it back, she
could take it back some day Now I have seen the warnings,
screaming from all sides It's easy to ignore and G-d
knows I've tried All of this temptation, it turned my faith to
lies Until I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide
She can take it back, she will take it back some day
She can take it back, she will take it back some day
She will take it back, she will take it back some day
"Coming Back To Life" (Gilmour)
Where were you when I was burned and broken While the
days slipped by from my window watching And where were you when
I was hurt and I was helpless Because the things you
say and the things you do surround me While
you were hanging yourself on someone else's words Dying
to believe in what you heard I was staring straight into the
shining sun Lost in thought and lost in time While
the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow While I pondered on
this dangerous but irresistible pastime I took
a heavenly ride through our silence I knew the moment had
arrived For killing the past and coming back to life I
took a heavenly ride through our silence I knew the waiting had
begun And headed straight into the shining sun
"Keep
Talking" (Gilmour/Samson) For
millions of years mankind lived just like the animals Then
something happenend which unleashed the power of our
imagination We learned to talk There's a
silence surrounding me I can't seem to think straight I'll
sit in the corner No one can bother me I think
I should speak now "Why won't you talk to me"
I can't seem to speak now "You never talk to
me" My words won't come out right "What
are you thinking" I feel like I'm drowning "What
are you feeling" I'm feeling weak now "You
never talk to me" But I can't show my weakness "What
are you thinking" I sometimes wonder "What
are you feeling" Where do we go from here It
doesn't have to be like this All we need to do is make sure we
keep talking Why won't you talk to me "I
feel like I'm drowning" You never talk to me "You
know I can't breathe now" What are you thinking "We're
going nowhere" What are you feeling "We're
going nowhere" Why won't you talk to me You
never talk to me What are you thinking Where
do we go from here It doesn't have to be like this All
we need to do is make sure we keep talking
"Lost For Words" (Gilmour, Samson)
I was spending my time in the doldrums I
was caught in a cauldron of hate I felt persecuted and
paralysed I thought that everything else would just wait
While you are wasting your time on your enemies Engulfed
in a fever of spite Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night To martyr yourself to
caution Is not going to help at all Because
there'll be no safety in numbers When the Right One walks out
of the door Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor? Stuck in a
word of isolation While the ivy grows over the door So
I open my door to my enemies And I ask could we wipe the slate
clean But they tell me to please go fuck myself You
know you just can't win
"High Hopes" (Gilmour, Samson)
Beyond the horizon of the place we
lived when we were young In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The
ringing of the division bell had begun Along the Long Road and
on down the Causeway Do they still meet there by the Cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps Running
before times took our dreams away Leaving the myriad small
creatures trying to tie us to the ground To a
life consumed by slow decay The grass was greener The
light was brighter When friends surrounded The
nights of wonder Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing
behind us To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again Dragged
by the force of some sleeping tide At a higher altitude with
flag unfurled We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of
world Encumbered forever by desire and ambition There's
a hunger still unsatisfied Our weary eyes still stray to the
horizon Though down this road we've been so many times
The grass was greener The light was brighter The
taste was sweeter The nights of wonder With
friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The
water flowing The endless river Forever and
ever KID: {gurbling) Hi. MAN: Is that Charlie?
KID: Yes MAN: Hello, Charlie. (Kid hangs up) MAN:
Great. (Man hangs up)
