# Pink Floyd as Soundtrack **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 10, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-as-soundtrack/64929 "2001-05-10T00:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-as-soundtrack/64929/1 "2001-05-10T00:59:00Z")
No, no, not Wizard of OZ. That’s been done to death. But from the [trivia](http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0062622) section of the IMDB: > [@](#): > > The song “Echoes” from the album “Meddle” by Pink Floyd can be perfectly synchronized to the “Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite” sequence. The song runs the precise length of the sequence and was deliberately timed and arranged to follow the events occuring [sic] in this portion of the film. Wow… not only that, but a bit down the list is this too: > [@](#): > > There is another Pink Floyd song that synchronizes quite well with the “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite” sequence. “Atom Heart Mother Suite” from the album “Atom Heart Mother” is synchronized, if not as precisely or appropriately as “Echoes.” To get the synch just right, cue the track to 16 seconds after it begins, and unpause it just after the intertitle disappears and as the scene fades in. Another way is to start the track as Dr. Floyd begins to say “Its origin, and purpose, still a total mystery.” Whoa… Floyd predates the Dead in my own personal musical evolution, but this takes me by surprise. Anyone out there give this a look/ listen? How was it? Would anyone like to take a crack at lyrical interpretation (c&p’d below)? Now I have another reason to buy the movie. Looking forward to any replies… Rhythmdvl > [@](#): > > Echoes > > Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air > And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves > The echo of a distant time comes billowing across the sand > And everything is green, the sun beneath > And no one showed us to the land > And no one knows the where’s or the why’s > But something stares and something tries > And starts to climb towards the land > Strangers passing in the street by chance to separate closes meet > And I am you and what I see is me > And do I take you by the hand > And lead you through the land > And help me understand the best I can > And no one calls us to the dawn > And no one forces down our eyes > And no one speaks and no one tries > No one flies around the sun > Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes > Inviting and insighting me to rise > And through the window in the wall > Come streaming in on sunlight wings > A million bright ambassadors of morning > And no one sings me lullabies > And no one makes me close my eyes > So I throw the windows wide > And crawl to you across the sky ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-as-soundtrack/64929/2 "2001-05-10T02:50:22Z")
I haven’t seen any “official” lyrics to Echoes, and it was known to vary quite a bit over the course of the Floyd’s tours (I have a few bootleg variations of it with verses rearranged, lyrics changed, and stuff). Anyway, here is what I had always thought were the lyrics (my best guess :)) I added my differences in parentheses… Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves The echo of a distant time comes billowing across the sand (The echo of a distant tide comes rillowing across the sand) And everything is green, the sun beneath (And everything is green and submarine) And no one showed us to the land And no one knows the where’s or the why’s But something stares and something tries (But something stirs and something tries) And starts to climb towards the land (And starts to climb toward th light) Strangers passing in the street by chance to separate closes meet (…by chance two separate glances meet) And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can And no one calls us to the dawn And no one forces down our eyes And no one speaks and no one tries No one flies around the sun Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes (Cloudless as the day evolves upon my waking eyes {ok, pretty weak guess here}) Inviting and insighting me to rise And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning And no one sings me lullabies And no one makes me close my eyes So I throw the windows wide And crawl to you across the sky (And call to you across the sky) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-as-soundtrack/64929/3 "2001-05-10T11:22:15Z")
Uh … guys? Shouldn’t “insighting” be “inciting”?