Light On Dark Water

Pink Floyd: “Grantchester Meadows.” The funny thing about nostalgia is that you can have it for places and times that you didn’t actually experience. That was the way I felt when I first heard this ca. 1969. Then, hearing it again years later, I had that same feeling, plus the memory of the pleasure of hearing it for the first time. It’s atypical Floyd, and the one track of theirs that I would hate to be without. I bought Ummagumma, a two-disk album, a few years ago, mainly to get this song.

Studio recording with fan video of the real Grantchester Meadows (6:53):

I think it was C.S. Lewis, or maybe Tolkien, who remarked of what is usually called escapism that the people who are typically most concerned about escape are jailers.

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