Pink Floyd Songs - High Hopes Lyrics

Pink Floyd - High Hopes

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Album: The Division Bell
Released: 1994

High Hopes Lyrics

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

Writer/s: GILMOUR, SAMSON
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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High Hopes

This was the first song written for the album and yet the last one finished.

Within the song, Dave Gilmour's son Charlie hangs up the telephone on Pink Floyd manager Steve O'Rourke. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)

Nightwish covered this song on their 2005 compilation album Highest Hopes. They also played it at their final concert of the Once Tour, which was released on the DVD End Of An Era. (thanks, Bella - Pretoria)

The title of Pink Floyd's 2014 album The Endless River previously appeared as part of the closing lyric on this song, which was the last single released from The Division Bell. Gilmour explained to BBC Radio 6 Music's Matt Everitt that naming 'The Endless River' after the line suggested, "some sort of continuum" connecting the two records, since they both came from the same sessions.