{"id":676878,"date":"2026-05-31T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:55:09","slug":"3-pink-floyd-songs-that-sound-like-descending-into-madness-in-a-really-poetic-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676878\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Pink Floyd Songs That Sound Like Descending Into Madness (In a Really Poetic Way)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/5-stories-about-the-making-of-pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here-youve-probably-never-heard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pink Floyd <\/a>has a way of catching their listeners off guard while also looking deeply into their souls at the same time. Here are three of the wackiest songs from the group. Surprisingly, they\u2019ve got some lyrical content even Shakespeare could be jealous of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne Of My Turns\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of \u201cOne Of My Turns\u201d, a song off 1979\u2019s The Wall, the listener gets a play-by-play of the made-up character Pink inviting a rock groupie into his home. Once you get to the singing portion of the song, though, it becomes more than just a creepy track with an organ underneath it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDay after day, love turns grey \/ Like the skin of a dying man \/ And night after night, we pretend it\u2019s all right \/, But I have grown older and \/ You have grown colder and \/ Nothing is very much fun anymore \/ And I can feel one of my turns coming on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a sudden turn of events, Roger Waters\u2019 voice reveals that \u201cOne Of My Turns\u201d is about so much more. It\u2019s about the mundanity of everyday life and the harsh realities we face as we run out of time. In addition to his own madness, of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA New Machine, Pt. 1\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA New Machine, Pt. 1\u201d appears on\u00a0A Momentary Lapse of Reason, along with \u201cA New Machine, Pt. 2\u201d, of course. If you listen to the lyrics, which are spaced out between synth sounds, it feels like the \u201cmachine\u201d is talking to you.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been here<br \/>I have always looked out from behind these eyes<br \/>It feels like more than a lifetime<br \/>Feels like more than a lifetime<br \/>Sometimes I get tired of the waiting<br \/>Sometimes I get tired of being in here<br \/>Is this the way it has always been?<br \/>Could it ever have been different?<\/p>\n<p>In combination with the track\u2019s unique production, this set of lyrics feels like a metaphor for something more. We might be talking about machines, but it feels like a glimpse into the darker parts of the human experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEchoes\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this one is pretty insane. Not only is \u201cEchoes\u201d by Pink Floyd a whopping 23 minutes long, but it starts with a weird, high-pitched piano sound that feels a little like mind torture. As Waters said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/pink-floyd\/echoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">interview<\/a>, this song was supposed to be about \u201cThe potential that human beings have for recognizing each other\u2019s humanity and responding to it, with empathy rather than antipathy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can totally see that in the lyrics, which reference \u201cstrangers passing in the street\u201d who \u201cby chance, two separate glances meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo by: Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd has a way of catching their listeners off guard while also looking deeply into their souls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,61771,2156],"class_list":["post-676878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pink-floyd","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}