How Could I Wish You Back from Heaven?
Prince streaming video platforms Released for sale as separate track on iTunes October Producer s: Its colors seem to have more of a green hue and there are less lyrics and objects floating through the screen, which are sometimes also in a different color. Instead there are more close-up shots of Prince singing, but at no point the alternate take is spectacularly different. The alternate also runs three seconds longer, but this is mostly the fade out at the end which is slightly extended.
Retrieved from " http: Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls Videos Prince Recorded Personal tools Log in. Music Videos Related Artists. I Wish U Heaven. Prince Cat Sheila E. An unreleased slightly alternate version of this video exist. Something "good" from something "bad" And repeat in a good way, I love the song What it says to me is that you can never tell, at least about your own life your too close , what is good and what is bad.
Look at all of history, the life story of every great artist, the history of every war. Things that seem great one second are just pain the next, and possibly more importantly, things that seem great now can be the undoing of everything. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and often the road to enlightenment is paved with painful mistakes and lessons.
The song grinds this message home. Then expresses loss in the titular line. That loss seems to be for someone, but is equally for all the missed opportunities and chances. It is the loss of all the lives that could have been. All the dreams left unfulfilled. The chances not taken. Because we could not tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain.
Because we could not see beyond the end of our temporal noses. The final segment makes it all the more personal.
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Day after day, in the same old way, they bang their heads against the same barriers, never breaking through. Never quite telling that today's blue skies are eternities' pain. Never quite getting to the point where they have to break free or break down. Just bumping of the bowl year after year, running over the same ground. So for me this is a song about the nature of humanity and it's limited capability to see it's own position in the world, or individually in their own life.
It is about the lack of vision of most of man, the limited horizons and the pain that that causes. And I know that I suffer from all those flaws, and that I am trapped in that position, and that is why I had to listen to this song tonight when I came home. Many other Floyd songs express similar feelings to me, particularly Time which puts a ticking clock next to the weighing scales of wish you were here.
Balance each decision, but don't run out of time. I think I have failed on both counts. Ho humm, welcome to the machine.
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Hope things turn out better for you man. Flag degree7 on October 14, Perhaps the most eloquently delivered analysis I've ever read. Flag altruman on October 30, Flag lately on December 11, Jarak, I joined this site so I could tell you how profound your interpretation is. I hope someday you come back to this thread and see what your words have meant.
I knew, of course, that the song was about Roger's missing Syd, and I really liked the instrumental introduction. Dave was amazing playing it at Live8. But it never dawned on me that I was the "you" the song was referring to. Now it makes so much sense. Flag JimB82 on July 25, Wow, I just got an e-mail letting me know that someone had commented on my post. A post that I had no recollection of making on a site that if you had asked me yesterday I would have said I have never heard of. Having come here and read the post from me in the past, I have to say I like my style and still agree with what I said.
I am just struggling with the strange situation of reading your own words as if for the first time. Thanks to all those who have commented, I am sure that there are times over the past 5 years! As it stands at the moment I have put down my little black book, but still have a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in. Flag Jarak on July 01, Jarak This is the best explanation of the song, I feel my life as a set of missed opportunities,good or bad, and also you noticed a big truth.. Like you, Time raises the same feelings in me I'm thinking so much of this song lately Thanx Flag sanja on August 05, Jarak just thought I would ask if you still read the comments, and also if you found your blue skies, or if you only see the cold steel rail?
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God gave us dreams, so that we would want to make them a reality. The only thing most people never realize is that we can't fulfill those dreams without God's help. Unless we take the opposite path to get there, and then we end up empty and life is a shell with no substance filling us. Flag Grace on October 20, Jarak Yes, Loving someone that is out of reach. The dreams that will never be Flag Margaret Hill on January 25, General Comment Wish you were here refers to Syd Barrett, an original member of Pink Floyd, who's extremely exessive drug use caused him to leave the band and be replaced by David Gilmour.
Barrett was considered the creative one behind early Floyd. Definatly not a biography, but inspired in some part by him or in some part about him? Wish You Were Here the song and the whole album is a tribute to syd barrett. Not sure if the wall was a biography of syd barrett though Flag frantictan on January 29, The song as well as "Shine On Flag James55 on March 14, He didn't leave the band due to excessive drug use, they kicked him out because he lost his mind exacerbated by drug use Flag ShakeZula7 on May 17, The Pink Floyd members have conferimed that this song and the whole album is a tribute to Sid Berrit who was kicked out of the band due to exessive drug use.
Wish you were here is a song about how they wish the old Sid Berrit was still with them and in saying that they agknowlage that he has changed into a monster that is not the Sid they know and love. Therefore this song is about Sid's transformation to insanity in his mind. The first verse is about how Sid has lost the ability to differentiate between good and evil, like heaven from hell or blue skies from pain.
He exchanged all of the qualities that made up Sid for those suggested by the drugs. Causing him to become a prisoner, and allowing the drugs to change him however they may. Third verse basally is the Pink Floyd members missing the old friend they used to know and they know that deep down they share "the same old fears" meaning that they still have a connection with him. This song makes scene to me because I had a battle with drugs over my personality and luckily I came out onto unlike Sid.
This is a extremely meaningful song and once you understand the meaning I guarantee it will touch you in some way. Flagged camparsi on August 30, The Wall is Syd Barrett's biography? I thought it was Roger Waters' biography. At least it's way more about him than Syd. Flagged EnduringChill on January 29, This album is also about, and criticises the phonographic industry. The critic to the phonographic industry is notorious by the cover of the album 2 persons making a deal and one of them gets burned and the songs "Welcome to the machine" and "Have a Cigar".
The song "Shine on you crazy diamond" both parts opening and closing of the album are dedicated to Syd Barrett, and it's obvious by the lyrics "Remember when you were young"; "Nobody knows where you are"; "Come on you painter" his job before pink floyd.
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About that song, Wish You Were Here what they say is that they play the song thinking about Syd, and they can't to it of other way, although this song is not like "Shine On", it's not specifically about Syd. Roger the writer of the lyrics says: Because if you can't you stand on square on, until you die. It might sound like bullshit but that's what the song is about.
All the songs are encouraging me, I imagine that I write them for me, it's to encourage myself not to accept a lead role in a cage, but to go on demanding to myself that I keep auditioning for a walk on part in the war, because that's where I want to be. I want to be in the trenchers, I don't want to be in the headquarters or sitting in a hotel somewhere, I want to be Probably, I might say, in a way that my father would approve of.
I hope I've helped with the interpretations. If you can, watch this documentary because it's really good and well done. Then he asks do you know what you have give up? Then he goes on to say how I wish you were here mentally I might be way off but that's the way it reads to me. My Interpretation I think the first part of this song refers to growing up, maturing, and knowing how to discern between things that often fool us when we're young.
When we're young we sometimes misconstrue the most straightforward signs in our lives.
Someone smiles at us and we think its a veil. A beautiful blue sky doesn't seemingly have an obvious connection to pain; but these are the connections we sometimes mistakingly make mentally. Growing out of this mindset is a sign of maturation or growth. As for the second part of this song Trading "hot ashes for trees" and "hot air for a cool breeze" can be interpreted again as maturing, getting more in sync with the world as opposed to your own selfishness. This is the best part: Literally, "how I wish you were here" would mean the narrator wants that other person to be where the narrator now is.
But given my interpretation of the first two verses, I'd like to and am inclined to think "how I wish you were here" is merely pointing out that the narrator would both him and the other person to be in the same place probably not physically. Moreover, to be as accurate as I can get, that line can be taken as simply being a feeling of 'longing to be I think the cover art, a man on fire shaking hands with a man that's not on fire perfectly symbolizes this song.
I get the feeling that I'm overanalyzing -but I wouldn't have been able to make this interpretation had I not happened to think about something thats going on in my life while listening to it. I am in love with this song and I have to say. This is one of the most insightful, clairvoyant and incredible interpretations that I have came across. I never even thought of it that way but it makes perfect sense.
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Thank you Flag Nowandnever on May 06, It's an interesting interpretation and of course if that's the meaning it has for you then no one can argue with that. But it is well established that the song was actually written about Syd Barrett's decline due to mental illness and drug abuse, as has been described in other comments.
Flag robodok on February 09, In the second verse, the narrator feels that as the subject has changed his values, he has lost something of himself in the process. The implication is that it is better to be playing a minor part in real life, than to give up your freedom for a meaningless "lead role" in a limited world. Flag treant on March 16, The top 4 comments made me rethink my interpretation but its so relieving to read your version. Now I can say I'm not the only one with such a perspective. Flag ruchir on August 30, General Comment I have always thought this song was about two people after a break up, two people who still love each other but have been living for many years apart.
They shared dreams and ideals in life. The one who calls out wants to know where the other person is, is she still the same, or has she sold out to the world. After so many years apart to achieve each their own dreams, he realizes that feelings haven't changed, the same problems exist, and he wishes to be with her. I think this song is about soulmates who get together but than part to do other things, but never forget eachother, and realize later on that nothing else matters, they should be together again.
It's a song of loneliness, but it is a song that tells how nothing really matters but being with the person you belong with