They're great songwriters in the tradition of the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Their songs are beautiful and filled with all sorts of wonderful textures. It's all very emotional and moving. It's the first outside project I've ever produced.
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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 we found? The same old fears Wish you were here
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[We use] the arts to help people with mental health issues back into the mainstream and having a patron of the stature of Roger Waters will help us immensely. Roger was born and brought up in Cambridge and, through his work and life with Syd Barrett in the early days of Pink Floyd, has a good understanding of the enormous difficulties that mental illness can cause.
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And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking and racing to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in the relative way, but you are older and shorter of breath and one day closer to death
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Was it love, or was it the thought of being in love?
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And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
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For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.
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Was it love, or was it the idea of being in love?
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Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?
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For long you live and high you fly and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry and all that you touch and all that you see is all your life will ever be.
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