Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd



So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in a war
For a lead role in a cage?

How, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after Year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here



I had the last paragraph (the chorus) tattooed on my leg on the year anniversary of EB's death.  It was a song he had sung many times and we had listened to together over and over again.  It perfectly encompassed the way I was feeling, and still feel, about his passing.  TB and I have been so lost since his death, we go over the memories and places that were important but none of them have the spark they used to without EB.  These lyrics are also for my baby.  While I don't have the personal connection with this song and the baby that that I do with EB and the song, it again is the way I feel we have been since those huge losses that May five years ago.  When I look at those lyrics or hear that song, I feel that they frame my new life after loss so well.