Meddle

Tracks:

One of these days
A pillow of winds
Fearless
San tropez
Seamus
Echoes

One of these days
(Waters, Mason, Gilmour, Wright)

One of these days
I'm going to cut you into little pieces

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A pillow of winds
(Gilmour, Waters)

A cloud of eider down
Draws around me softening the sound
Sleepy time in my life
With my love by my side
And she's breathing low
And the candle dies

When night comes down you lock the door
The book falls to the floor
As darkness falls and waves roll by
The seasons change
The wind is raw

Now wakes the hour that sleeps the swan
Behold a dream, the dream is gone
Green fields
A cold rain is falling
Near the golden dawn

And deep beneath the ground
The early morning sounds and I go down
Sleepy time in our life
 With my love by my side
 And she's breathing low

 And I rise like a bird
In the haze and the first rays touch the sky
 And the night winds die

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Fearless
(Waters, Gilmour)

You say the hill's too steep to climb
Climb it!
You say you'd like to see me try
Climb it!
You pick the place and I'll choose the time
And I'll climb
The hill in my own way
Just wait a while, for the right day
And as I rise above the tree line and the clouds
I look down, hear the sound of the things you said today

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling
Merciless the magistrate turns 'round, frowning
And who's the fool who wears the crown
Go down in your own way
And every day is the right day
And as you rise above the fear lines in this ground
You look down
Hear the sound of the faces in the crowd

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San Tropez
(Waters)
 

As I reach for a peach
Slide a rind down behind
The sofa in San Tropez
Breaking a stick with a brick on the sand
 Riding a wave in the wake of an old sedan
 Sleeping alone in the drone of the darkness
Scratched by the sand that fell from my love
Deep in my dreams and I still hear her calling
If you're alone I'll come home

Backwards and home bound
The pidgin, the dove
Gone with the wind and the rain on an airplane
Owning a home with no silver spoon
I'm drinking champagne like a big tycoon
Sooner than wait for a break in the weather
I'll gather my far-flung thoughts together
Speeding away on a wind to a new day
If your alone I'll come home

And I pause for awhile
By a country stile
And listen to things they say
Digging for gold in the hoe in my hand
Open a book, take a look at the way things stand Would you lead me down to the place by the sea
I hear your soft voice calling to me
Making a date for later by phone
And if you're alone I'll come home

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Seamus
(Mason, Gilmour, Waters, Wright)

I was in the kitchen
Seamus, that's the dog was outside
Well, I was in the kitchen
Seamus, my old hound was outside
Well, I'm song singing slowly
Well my old hound dog sat right down and cried

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Echoes
(Waters, Mason, Gilmour, Wright)
 
 

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where's or whys
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
 And help me understand the best I can
 And no one calls us to move on
 And no one forces down our eyes
  And no one speaks
  And no one tries
 And no one flies around the sun

 Cloudless everyday you fall
 Upon my waking eyes
 Inviting and inciting me to rise
  And through the window in the wall
  Comes streaming in on sunlight wings
  A million bright ambassadors of morning
  And no one sings me lullabies
  And no one makes me close my eyes
  So I throw the windows wide
  And crawl to you across the sky

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