Wish You Were Here

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?

And 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 the war

For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, 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 you found?

The same old fears

Wish you were here

I sure do miss you, man

The nights we'd talk 'til the break of dawn

Now I stare at the stars and wonder

Where all that time has gone

You'd laugh and say it's just the way

But I still feel you near

By the fire with a beer

Wish you were here