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I try to care about a lot, esp. nature and people who need some help. I like to think i'm a kind, patient and caring person (maybe sometimes a little too much it seems). I also like a good conversation, having fun and my friends say I can listen well. Anyway, you're free to ask about me and i'll be glad to answer... ;-)In memory of "Crazy Diamond", Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett (6 januari 1946 - 7 juli 2006); shine on Syd! And that's exactly what Pink Floyd managed to do. PS: and that includes the contribution of David Gilmour (to say the least), who so often had to deal with injust criticism.In memory of Richard "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008); the "Great Gig" was without doubt one of his own masterpieces..."Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street" // / "looking down on empty streets, all she can see / are the dreams all made solid / are the dreams all made real / / all of the buildings, all of those cars / were once just a dream / in somebody's head / / she pictures the broken glass, she pictures the steam / she pictures a soul / with no leak at the seam / / let's take the boat out / wait until darkness / let's take the boat out / wait until darkness comes / / nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey / nowhere in the suburbs / in the cold light of day / there in the midst of it so alive and alone / words support like bone / / dreaming of mercy street / wear your inside out / dreaming of mercy / in your daddy's arms again / dreaming of mercy street / 'swear they moved that sign / dreaming of mercy / in your daddy's arms / / pulling out the papers from the drawers that slide smooth / tugging at the darkness, word upon word /confessing all the secret things in the warm velvet box / to the priest-he's the doctor / he can handle the shocks / / dreaming of the tenderness-the tremble in the hips / of kissing Mary's lips / / dreaming of mercy street / wear your insides out / dreaming of mercy / in your daddy's arms again / dreaming of mercy street / 'swear they moved that sign / looking for mercy / in your daddy's arms / / mercy, mercy, looking for mercy / mercy, mercy, looking for mercy / / Anne, with her father is out in the boat / riding the water / riding the waves on the sea" / / / / / / / Some songs tend to have a kind of special "moving" touch, as f.i. John Lennon's "Imagine" or Neil Young's "Heart of Gold". I felt the same about this song from the first time i heard it and each time I hear it I still get overwhelmed by it, sending shivers down my spine. This song was written for Anne Sexton, a severely depressed poet who wrote as a form of therapy rather than for an audience. The lyrics by Peter Gabriel, a true art-loving person, actually incorporate ideas from Anne's own poems '45 Mercy Street' and 'For the Year of the Insane' ("kissing Mary's lips" maybe a reference to her mother, Mary. Anne always felt her mother did not love her enough and thus she had her own fears about being a mother. All her life she sought that safe place she lacked early on: Mercy Street...) as well as her book of poetry 'The Awful Rowing Toward God' (the idea of taking a boat to the sea). The end of the song can be very intense during live shows, when Gabriel uses a high-pitched wail to simulate Sexton's death (Anne eventually succeeded in one of her suicide attempts, which are nearly always a cry for help). Anyway, this is one of the most moving tributes ever paid to a poet by a rock musician; and it shows that in rockmusic sometimes "there's more to the picture than meets the eye" (Neil Young). PS: Thanx for some of this info by cea796, malek3000 & klotylda.David Gilmour playing High Hopes during the Meltdown Concert on 22/06/2001 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK; OK, i've put "yet another (Floyd-)movie" here, this one as a token of appreciation for someone who's recently become a very dear and precious friend; and of course because it like it so much myself ;), as i think it's perhaps (?!) the best Floyd-song off what one might call PF's "Gilmour-era"; so, if you feel like it, sit back and enjoy David's "hearth-melting" version; if you'd happen not to have heard this version before, being from outer-space or just not such a Floyd fan, no offence meant btw ;-), you might kind of find yourself a bit "At a higher altitude with flag unfurled" & at "the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world!" ;). Still, if you already know this one by hearth, you can easily listen again and again, 'cause aren't we all: "Encumbered forever by desire and ambition / There's a hunger still unsatisfied / Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon / go down this road we've been so many times..." (Gimour, Samson). But, never mind all that: i just hope you'll enjoy this one as much as i and probably most Floyd-fans do :-).