High Hopes

Tocado pela nostalgia do concerto que deu no passado sábado na Rtp2 de David Gilmour, decidi deixar aqui o que apelido de acordo com um grande amigo meu o «canto do cisne» dos saudosos Pink Floyd. A música intitulada High Hopes está incluída no ultimo álbum de originais da banda, e foi a ultima a ser gravada, pois seria uma especie de reflexão final sobre as perdas e os ganhos de uma vida até então recheada disso mesmo. Deixo aqui também uma citação de David Gilmour sobre «a música do encerramento de uma era» seguida do belissimo video:


"High Hopes was really the last one, it was written after all the other (songs) were sort of, in some form or another. I think I wrote it in July or something. It was very, very quick. It's one of those ones that works, quickly, but beautifully, almost immediately and, I came up with a tiny bit of music, just had it on a cassette, just a few bars of piano. And then I went off to get away to a small house somewhere with my girlfriend, Polly, and try and make some progress on the lyric writing. And she gave me a phrase about something about before time wears you down. And I took it from there, and...got stuck into a whole sort of thing about, I suppose, my, it's autobiographical really, I suppose I'd have to say on that one, it's about my life, Cambridge life, and my childhood, I suppose. Yeah, we came up with it very, very quickly, we wrote the words to it in, most of the words to it in a day. And then I went back to the studio, with no one else there, the minute I got back, and put a demo down of it. Did everything myself on it, and it was virtually complete in a day. ”

March, 1994.