I Know You're Right Here: A Reply to Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here
       by Pink Floyd

So, so you think you can tell

Heaven from Hell,
Blue sky's 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.
And how we found
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.


For some reason, as I was listening to this song on the radio the other day, I thought it needed a reply.

No, I cannot tell
heaven from hell
without you by my side
everything's the same
the colors are gone
and its always pouring rain
there's nothing left to tell

how can I compare
why I chose this enveloping cage
instead of the world I breathe
without you wandering by
gone in the ashes of the morning
gone in the cool sea breeze
yet the emptiness clangs
and the dreams fall with the rain

oh how I wish, how I wish you were here
they say you always go home again
but its never, never the same
the ghosts are all new
and the leaks change room
despite all that and the wall
as I walk along the broken way
I know you're right here