'You' - Roy Harper, Kate Bush & David Gilmour

'You' - from Roy Harper's 1980 album, 'The Unknown Soldier', with Kate Bush and David Gilmour (guitar).

Lyrics:
You
Oh my daring time traveller
You love dwelling discoverer
You
You open the doors for me
And let me in -- I come
You
My deep secret accomplices
You
Who endure my injustices
You
You reward me kind likenesses
Bearing gifts, of home.
To new directions in the zoo
Helpless lovers follow you
Only you
You
My dear old companion
You
Oh my fairest opinion
You
My sweet faithful perfection
Homin' in -- come on
You from my seeds of eternity
You
Always gently in front of me
You
You're so soft deep inside of me
And like a rock -- I come
To new dimensions in the zoo
Helpless lovers follow you
Only you
Only you

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Roy
• Harper
• Kate
• Bush
• David
• Gilmour
• You
• Unknown
• Soldier
• Rock

[logicreality1]

who is kate bush? Is she from the XFactor?

[CrimsonDiamond]

@logicreality1 Hehe ;) We can safely say Kate Bush is the polar opposite of everything XFactor represents. She's her own lyricist, composer, producer and, as her brother so eloquently put it, "she doesn't want to play with the [media] bullshit."

[sooner4949]

anyone else hear Raise My Rent in this?

[CrimsonDiamond]

@sooner4949 Yes, similar style riff..

[lastrada52]

I know Ray Harper sang lead on Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine -- so he already has his Pink Floyd credentials. But this confirms what I knew all along. Kate Bush could be the only female who would fit comfortably as a major member of Pink Floyd. As vocalist, instrumentalist and writer. Just listen to this track. This is as close as a sample as Kate Bush with Pink Floyd as we're gonna get and this is fabulous. I could listen to an entire album of this.

[CrimsonDiamond]

@lastrada52 It was Floyd's Have A Cigar that Harper sang lead on, but yes Kate with Floyd could've been immense! Both are very experimental musically, plus the progressive rock elements & concept album spring to mind (Pink Floyd The Wall, Kate's The Ninth Wave/A Sky of Honey)... if only Kate had made a short film for The Ninth Wave - I believe she thought about it but nothing ever materialised.

[O0Salmon0O]

Remove the association with Gilmour's body of work and what is left is not a listenable song in this final form. Harper may have sung Have a Cigar but the delivery of those vocals was atypical of his style. Harper does not often sing full-voiced as he did on Cigar. This is a very uneven performance by the three. It lacks Gilmour's perfectionist polish.

[lawless130]

@logicreality1 If me calling you a retarded joke is flattery to you that speaks volumes about what you really are

[asceticification]

Thanks for uploading. This song is proof, if ever one needed it, that Kate Bush should have left the production, arrangement and writing credits of all her post 1980 albums to Harper.

[lastrada52]

@JackFox13 - Pink Floyd giving Kate some creative leash -- as a member -- would bring Pink Floyd into a new realm -- an entirely new era. She would be the fuel they would need to rekindle their legend. It would stimulate a new direction -- fresh musical ideas. I can hear Kate trade vocals with Roger & David. I find it a curiosity --but one that sounds feasible. At least for 1 LP. Other than that, maybe Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance. But, Kate is already in the Pink Floyd family.

[JackFox13]

@lastrada52 I believe at this point in time Kate Bush could possibly make Floyd better she has truly shown an ability to evolve musically. I wonder If the boys could give her enough of a creative leash. I wonder if those guys have any gas left in the tank to really produce anything as great as in the past. At the same time seems like Kate Bush wrote for herself, it is my biased belief she really was masterful on every album to date while evolving at the same time. Both Artists are amazing.

[andy501954]

When i saw Roy in Hyde Park about the mid 70's Dave Gilmour was in his backing band along with John Paul Jones and Andy or Edgar Broughton,some backing band.

[ABCDEFG1232851]

@logicreality1 oh you... troll...!

[neohip]

@CrimsonDiamond

Yes.

Today’s dumbing down of talent and toeing the corporate line is actually the way it works.

It has been thus since people began writing some 5000 years ago, and continues today.

In art, there has always been mainstream against rebels, and the creative side usually wins, only to eventually become what they railed against.

Then the process repeats itself. I love Kate, and I fell in love with her when I was 10 years old, but that's another story!

[movedtogy]

and Pink Floyd still buy him a lords season ticket for singing Have a Cigar

[lastrada52]

@FloydyTube - That is true. But with Richard Wright gone and the possibility of a new Pink Floyd reunion fading...I was hoping maybe the surviving members would reunite with a new edge -- Pink Floyd featuring Kate Bush (Not on all the tracks). I think Floyd fans would welcome it. Especially if she were collaborated with Roger Waters & David Gilmour. It would just take Pink Floyd to yet, another new level. But, it's just a suggestion. I know I would buy it if it ever were released.