HIGH HOPES 1. Junnuri Karthik K. Goutham Abhilash K. Alben Jose N.S. Shiva Prasad M.V. Kishore Kumar S. Abhishek Ravi Shankar B

Band Members Pink Floyd were formed in 1965, and originally consisted of university students: Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright Barrett was removed due to his increasingly erratic behavior, Wright left the band in 1979, and Waters in The band again enjoyed worldwide success with A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994)

About the song. High Hopes" is a song from the 1994 Pink Floyd album, ‘The Division Bell’ composed by David Gilmour with lyrics of Polly Samson. Its lyrics speak of the things one may have gained and lost in life, written from an autobiographical angle by Gilmour. This being the very last song that Pink Floyd has written to date (and its placement at the end of their last album of new material to date) lends itself to the interpretation that the song narrates the story of the band's career, from their beginnings to their grandiose success (with The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall) to their breakup to their carrying on.

Gilmour on the song “High Hopes" was really the last one, it was written after all the other (songs) were sort of, in some form or another. I think I wrote it in July or something. It was very, very quick. It's one of those ones that works, quickly, but beautifully, almost immediately and, I came up with a tiny bit of music, just had it on a cassette, just a few bars of piano. And then I went off to get away to a small house somewhere with my girlfriend, Polly, and try and make some progress on the lyric writing. And she gave me a phrase about something about before time wears you down. And I took it from there, and...got stuck into a whole sort of thing about, I suppose, my, it's autobiographical really, I suppose I'd have to say on that one, it's about my life, Cambridge life, and my childhood, I suppose. Yeah, we came up with it very, very quickly, we wrote the words to it in, most of the words to it in a day. And then I went back to the studio, with no one else there, the minute I got back, and put a demo down of it. Did everything myself on it, and it was virtually complete in a day.”

Lyrics. Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young In a world of magnets and miracles Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The ringing of the division bell had begun Along the long road and on down to the causeway Do they still LIVE there by the cut There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps Running before time took our dreams away Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground To a life consumed by slow decay

Flow of thought The author switches back and forth in time, with alternate lines following a chronological order. The lyrics are marked by a rich usage of metaphors and symbolism. The tone is bitter-sweet and resigned. “There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps Running before time took our dreams away Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground To a life consumed by slow decay”

Refrain. The grass was greener The light was brighter The taste was sweeter The nights of wonder With friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river

Visual Appeal The video depicts the emotion in each and every line with great attention to detail. The video has many references to Cambridge, where Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour grew up. The university scarves, bikes and punts on the river being obvious ones. Also shown is an oversized sculpture of Syd Barrett.

Snapshots Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young.

The University Along the long road and on down to the causeway

Snapshots Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground

Snapshots There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps Running before time took our dreams away

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