Pink Floyd fans point to one song as holding the band’s ‘best lyrics’

Pink Floyd fans are deciding on the one song that holds the group’s very best lyrics.

Though obvious choices from The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall may prevail, dedicated fans of the group dug deeper than those popular efforts and found much to love about the group’s earlier works. One user suggested Atom Heart Mother as holding one of the most inspired moments from the group and posted the lyric to r/PinkFloyd. The post to the Pink Floyd subreddit reads: “‘From the bed I gained a day and lost a bloody year.’ Such good writing, easily one of the best lyrics for me, right up there with ‘I’ve got a strong urge to fly, but I got nowhere to fly to,’ and ‘Steps taken forward and sleepwalking back again’.”

Other users are now sharing their favourite lyrics from the band’s vast backlog. One user wrote: “One of my favourites because it reminds me so much of my dad. ‘So I open my door to my enemy, and I ask could we wipe the slate clean, but they tell me to please go fuck myself, you know you just can’t win’. Lost for Words is a top five for me.”

Another user agreed with the original post and says Atom Heart Mother features one of the most heartbreaking songs the band ever wrote. They suggested: “If, from Atom Heart Mother, that whole song is so simple but heartbreaking.”

A third wrote: “‘There’s no sensation to compare with this. Suspended animation, state of bliss.’ Floyd has so many amazing lyrics! But these lines always make me raise my hands to the Heavens and I get chills! Without fail!”

Some users also suggested Us and Them as a great example of Pink Floyd’s best lyrical efforts. They quoted: “Forward he cried, from the rear, and the front rank died. The general sat, and the lines on the map, moved from side to side.”

“From your bed I gained a day and lost a bloody year”
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Another user replied: “Oh man, I listen to Us and Them to Eclipse all the time. This is my favourite line from the album, along with ‘the paper holds their folded faces to the floor, and everyday the paperboy brings more’.”

The original poster was also asked to explain the meaning behind the Atom Heart Mother lyrics they proposed in their original post. They wrote: “Worst of all, the experience leaves the speaker feeling emptier and more alone than he felt before he met the woman.

“He feels as though he has ‘lost a bloody year’ of his life, feels symbolically cold (isolated, alone) despite the room’s warmth, and wishes he was elsewhere, in a happier place with his true friends. Perhaps the most telling line is the last one, in which he states ‘I’ve had enough for one day’.”