This song by Pink Floyd expresses a longing for a missing friend. It describes feeling like lost souls swimming together in a fishbowl, running over the same fears each year, and wishing the friend was there to share in the familiar experience.
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Pink Floyd - Listening Comprehension Exercises
1. Pink Floyd - WishYou Were Here
( ) Do you think you can tell?
( ) Blue skies from pain
( ) A smile from a veil?
( ) Heaven from hell
( ) From a cold steel rail?
( ) Can you tell a green field
( ) So, so you think you can tell
Did they get you to gade/trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees/threes?
Hot air for a cool/fool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange/change
A walk on part in the war/jar
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you ____________here
We're just _________lost souls
Swimming in a _________bowl
Year after year
Running over the same ________ground
And how we ___________
The same old ______________
Wish you were here
fish - two -
old fears -
were found
Pink Floyd - WishYou Were Here
( ) Do you think you can tell?
( ) Blue skies from pain
( ) A smile from a veil?
( ) Heaven from hell
( ) From a cold steel rail?
( ) Can you tell a green field
( ) So, so you think you can tell
Did they get you to gade/trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees/threes?
Hot air for a cool/fool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange/change
A walk on part in the war/jar
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you ____________here
We're just _________lost souls
Swimming in a _________bowl
Year after year
Running over the same ________ground
And how we ___________
The same old ______________
Wish you were here
fish - two -
old fears -
were found
Pink Floyd - WishYou Were Here
( ) Do you think you can tell?
( ) Blue skies from pain
( ) A smile from a veil?
( ) Heaven from hell
( ) From a cold steel rail?
( ) Can you tell a green field
( ) So, so you think you can tell
Did they get you to gade/trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees/threes?
Hot air for a cool/fool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange/change
A walk on part in the war/jar
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you ____________here
We're just _________lost souls
Swimming in a _________bowl
Year after year
Running over the same ________ground
And how we ___________
The same old ______________
Wish you were here
fish - two -
old fears -
were found