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MassedGadgets
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The Narrow Way


This song always reminded me of men going through a town into War and the towns people looking on and hoping...but knowing nothing good can come out of this.

Then again I have a very overactive imagination. Whenever I hear this song it paints that picture in my head...I think about alot of gray imagery when I hear this tune and listen to the words.

What are your thoughts on this tune?

Floyd is notorius for creating alot of thoughts and emotions through their music.
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Following the path as it leads toward
The darkness in the north
Weary stranger's faces show their sympathy
They've seen that hope before

And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on your way

Mystery swelling, creatures crawling
Hear the roar ger louder in your ears
You know the folly was your own
But the force behind can't conquer all you fears

And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning and you know
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on your way

Throw your thoughts back many years
To the time when love was life with every morning
Perhaps a day will come when the match for me the curlers past warning

And if you want to stay for a little bit
Rest your aching limbs for a little bit
For you the night is beckoning
And now you can't delay
You hear the night birds calling you
But you can't catch the words they say
And you must you realize be on your way

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I always believed that Gilmour's own explanation that he "bull****ted his way through The Narrow Way" as the most accurate.

Since Roger wouldn't help him with the lyrics he wrote them himself.

I'm not sure there IS a meaning and I daresay Dave forgot what it was years ago :-)

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