From “Pink Floyd - High Hopes (Official Music Video HD)” by Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd's "High Hopes" music video
Fields and balloons drift through one long song.
Key points
- The song looks back on a youth of magnets and miracles, spent with friends, as a brighter time with greener grass that the singer keeps measuring the present against. 0:42
- Time takes dreams away and leaves small creatures that try to tie people to the ground in a life of slow decay. 1:20
- Despite taking steps forward and reaching the dizzy heights of a long-dreamed-of world, the narrator keeps sleepwalking back, dragged by an inner tide. 2:27
- Desire and ambition keep the singer encumbered, with a hunger that is never satisfied and weary eyes that still stray to the horizon. 3:53
- The song ends not on resolution but on an image of continuity: a dawn mist glowing over flowing water and an endless river that lasts forever. 4:48
Details in the frames
- JAQUES table tennis table — A green table tennis table with the word JAQUES printed on its side stands in the grass.
The performance, part by part
- Youth remembered and dreams taken — The singer recalls a youth of magnets, miracles and friends, while time takes dreams away and leaves small creatures that tie people down. Steps forward are undone as the narrator keeps sleepwalking back, though the dizzy heights of a dreamed-of world are reached. 0:00
- Instrumental passage without words — This window carries no sung words beyond a closing line that completes the image of reaching a long-dreamed-of world. The rest of the passage is purely instrumental. 2:46
- Desire, hunger and the horizon — The singer says desire and ambition have kept him encumbered, with a hunger that is never satisfied. Weary eyes still stray to the horizon, and the refrain returns to a remembered past of brighter light. 3:53
- Dawn mist and the endless river — The closing lyrics picture a dawn mist glowing over flowing water. The song ends on an endless river that lasts forever. 4:48
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