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"High Hopes" is a song by Pink Floyd from their 1994 album "Division Bell". The song is composed by David Gilmour with lyrics by him and Polly Samson, a novelist, lyricist, journalist and David's wife. It was the first song written for the album and yet the last one finished.
The lyrics of "High Hopes" spawned titles for two Pink Floyd albums: "Division Bell" itself ("the ringing of the division bell had begun") and the final album, "The Endless River" ("the endless river, forever and ever"). Gilmour that naming the album 'The Endless River' after the line suggested, "some sort of continuum" connecting the two records, since they both came from the same sessions.
And the same time, the "forever and ever line" refers to the band's early song "See Emily Play" ("float on a river, forever and ever"). This is pink-floydy as hell.
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 the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before times took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
When friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times
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
Forever and ever