Wish you were here

So… So you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade?
Your heroes for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change
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
Swimmin' in a fishbowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears...
Wish you were here…

Estate 2001

"In the summer all the lights would shine,
there'd be music playing,
people laughing all the time…"