Dark Side Of The Moon
Released March 24, 1973

Dark Side of the Moon is acclaimed as the best Pink Floyd album ever; it may even be the best rock and roll album ever. "Time" and "Money" receive radio air time, but the whole album is filled with great sounds. "Any colour you like" and "Us and Them" defined the well known Pink Floyd sound.

Album Songs
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"Speak To Me"
"Breathe" (Meshed with "Speak To Me")
"On The Run"
"Time"
"The Great Gig In The Sky"
"Money"
"Us And Them"
"Any Colour You Like"
"Brain Damage"
"Eclipse"

Credits

David Gilmour : Vocals, Guitars, VCS3
Nick Mason : Percussion, Tape Effects
Richard Wright : Keyboards, Vocals, VCS3
Roger Waters : Bass Guitar, Vocals, VCS3, tape effects

Produced by Pink Floyd
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London between June 1972 and January 1973

Engineer : Alan Parsons
Assistant : Peter James
Mixing Supervised by Chris Thomas

Saxaphone on 'Us and Them' and 'Money' : Dick Parry
Backing Vocals : Doris Troy, Leslie Duncan, Liza Strike, Barry St. John
Vocals on 'Great Gig in the Sky' : Clare Torry

Sleeve Design : Hipgnosis
Sleeve Art : George Hardie N.T.A.
Photography : Hipgnosis
Sticker Art : George Hardie N.T.A.

All lyrics by Roger Waters

Music by :
Mason : Speak to Me

Waters, Gilmour, Wright : Breathe

Gilmour, Waters : On the Run

Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour : Time

Wright : The Great Gig In The Sky

Waters : Money, Brain Damage, Eclipse

Waters, Wright : Us and Them

Gilmour, Mason, Wright : Any Colour You Like

Lyrics

Speak to Me

"I've been mad for f*cking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

(Man laughing)

Breathe

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave, but don't leave me
Look around
Choose your own ground

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, 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

On The Run

(female announcing flights)
"...have your passports ready....Rome..."

"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"

(Instrumental)

Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand 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
And 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
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a 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 nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold 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

The Great Gig In The Sky

"And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it. You've gotta go sometime."

"I never said I was frightened of dying."

(Instrumental)

Money

Money
Get away
You get a good job with good pay and you're okay
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
Well, get back
I'm all right Jack
Keep your hands off of my stack
Money
It's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the high-fidelity first class travelling set
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 raise
It's no surprise that they're giving none away

"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely. It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"

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 'n 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

"I mean, they're not gonna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short, sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off lightly, 'cause I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once! It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh?"

Down and out
It can't be helped that 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
I've got things on my mind
For the want of the price
Of tea and a slice
The old man died

Any Colour You Like

(Instrumental)

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 forebodings 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 rearrange me 'till I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
And 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

"I can't think of anything to say except... Laughing is nice! HaHaHa!"

Eclipse

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

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