Shine On You Crazy Diamond!

Oooh, sparkly!

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*~Shine On You Crazy Diamond!~*

*~Remember when you were young~*

*~You Shone Like The Sun~*
*~Shine On You Crazy... Diamond!!!~*
*~Now There's A Look In Your Eyes~*

*~Like Black~~Holes~~In~~The Sky!~*

*~Wormholes~Leading~Nowhere~*

*~Dark Shadows of Days, Gone By~*

*~Specters Commanding Our Future!~*

*~Ghostly~Echoes~Hallowed~Ground!~*

*~Mysterious ~Brief~Candles*~ Flickering~*

*~The Dead~Rise~*Up*~Only~To~Lie Down~*

*~Motionless!~*Cacophony*~In~The Silence!~*

*~Echoing That~*Which*~No~Longer Exists!~*

*~Yet The...Spark…Within...May...Never Die!~*

*~Light~Forever...Penetrating...Deepest...Darkness!~*

*~Shine On ~*You*~*Crazy*~ Diamonds!~*
*~You Were Caught In The Crossfire!~*

**Placed On A Pedestal, and Used**

*~*Treated*Like*A*Trophy*Prize*~*
*~Blown On~*The~*Steel Breeze~*
*~Come On You Target For Faraway Laughter~*

*~Threatened By Shadows And Exposed In The Light.~*

*~Come On You Stranger, You Legend, You Martyr, And Shine!~*
*~You Reached For The Secret Too Soon, You Cried For The Moon!~*
*~Shine On~You~Crazy~Diamond!~*
*~Well You Wore Out Your Welcome~*

*~With Random Precision... Rode On The Steel Breeze~*
**~Come On You Raver**~** You Seer Of Visions~**
*Come On You Painter* You Piper* You Prisoner* And Shine!*

*Alas, Poor Yorick! I Knew Him, Horatio, A Fellow of Infinite Jest,*

Of most excellent fancy, he hath borne me on his back a thousand times,

And, Now How Abhorred in My Imagination it is, My Gorge Rises at It!

(Pink Floyd, Shakespeare)