Take It Back

"Take It Back" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell.

While most apparently a love song, it can also be interpreted to be about Mother Nature, and how man abuses the Earth. This latter interpretation gains some credibility from the video, which seems to have been made with the issue very much in mind. Additionally, the album was named The Division Bell by Douglas Adams in exchange for the band contributing a sizeable donation to Save The Rhino International.[citation needed]

The opening riff bears some similarities to Marillion's "The Release" (a b-side from the "Seasons End" sessions). The band's lead singer Steve Hogarth hints on the band's official website, "I always thought this song bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain Pink Floyd single... See you in court!..."

Around the middle of the song, starting at around 03:04, between the main lyrics, can be heard children chanting lines from a nursery rhyme "Ring-O'-Roses": "...A pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down". (A strong allusion to the same nursery rhyme can be heard in Marillion's song "Forgotten Sons", from the first album, "Script for a Jester's Tear" (1983): "Ring-a-ring-o-roses, they all fall down...".)

Lyrics:

Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire

She could take it back, she might take it back someday

So I spy on her, I lie to her, I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me, I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit to see if she will break

She might take it back, she could take it back some day

Now I have seen the warnings, screaming from all sides
It's easy to ignore them and G-d knows I've tried
All this temptation, it turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide

She can take it back, she will take it back some day
She can take it back, she will take it back some day
She can take it back, she will take it back some day

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• Take it back
• pink floyd
• david gilmour
• rick wright
• nick mason

[SamuraiSketch]

U2 wishes they could sound like this band. Gilmour is far superior to Bono.

[max6762205]

You never get tired of this beautiful music

[sanjose528]

GOD knows-----

[BertilUlfsson]

@batebatev just cause u2 use the same delay unit doesnt mean its anything like u2. annoys me to no end.

[batebatev]

it ressembles to U2 more than to Pink Floyd