David Gilmour on “Coming Back To Life”

Pink Floyd – Coming Back To Life Lyrics

Where were you when I was ……………..and broken
While the days slipped by from my ……………..watching
Where were you when I was hurt and ……………..Because the things you say and the things you do ………………..me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else’s ………………….
……………..to believe in what you heard
I was ………………straight into the shining sun

Lost in thought and lost in …………….
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were ……………..
……………the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but ……………..pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our ………………
I knew the ……………had arrived
For …………….the past and coming back to life

I took a heavenly ride through our ………………..
I knew the waiting had begun
And ………………..straight..into the shining sun

Things to do……..

1 Fill in the empty spaces while listening to the song.

2 The following are all interpretations of the lyrics of the song. It is clear that most opinions converge on a forsaken love.

Try to fill in the gaps with a suitable word.

difficulty – betrayed – tough – love  –killing  -prospects  –stability – mistrust –  pain –  term -howl  -energy  -pose – define – life – meant

It’s about someone who was once deeply in………………  but ……………..and now getting over his……………… heading towards a new beginning. It’s about getting a new……….. , not only in terms of love, it could be anything. Motivation, happiness, long ………….goal , inner peace ,achievement, mental…………… anything at all. It is about a person finding himself/herself once again after going through a bundle of ……………times!

I think it’s about finally meeting the person you are meant to spend your life with… And realizing you spent time and ………………on another person that wasn’t …………….for you. “Where were you?”. She was trying to make a marriage work, and not available… But the past is the past… They are finally together now 🙂

It’s about a guy who’s been in deep love with the girl and her thoughts surround him all the time. And now he’s headed straight into the shining sun i.e. has overcome his past by ………….it and looking towards brighter………………

We all have moments in our lives that …………………..us as beings; those moments are ever-lasting.

The lyrics, in my mind, suggest that we all, at times find ………………in relating to others.

We tend to “sense” things very differently; consequently, what may have significant meaning to ourselves, can generate misunderstanding and, at times, …………….. in others, and in the world in which we all live.

Although one may have “stared directly into the sun”, while others “………………… at the moon” it may……………….the question as to who and why we “are what we are” as individuals.