Nonduality in Pink Floyd lyrics

[BIggleswerth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QCCz4mtd0E

Quote

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

 

I'm not sure if the artist was going for this, I read briefly the song was written about someone with addiction. But doesn't it sound like he's talking nonduality?

[Inliytened1]

It does sound like it as he is almost saying that these dualities can be collapsed and the only reason they exist is because the are contrasts.  Wonder if it was intentional or not..cool music regardless

 

[Nahm]

...but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

[Richard Alpert]

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around, choose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all your touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

[SoothedByRain]

Eclipse lyrics:

All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
And all that you love
And all that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say
And all that you eat
And everyone you meet (everyone you meet)
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

 

[Rilles]

19 hours ago, BIggleswerth said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QCCz4mtd0E

 

I'm not sure if the artist was going for this, I read briefly the song was written about someone with addiction. But doesn't it sound like he's talking nonduality?

Agreed. Syd Barrett ate too many sugarcubes... and the nonduality became too much for him

[TheAvatarState]

@BIggleswerth How about the song Echoes off the album Meddle?

"Strangers passing in the street

By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can

And no one called us to the land
And no one crosses there alive
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun

Almost everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me
To rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabys
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky."

 

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Us and Them?

"Black (black, black, black)0
And blue (blue, blue)
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up (up, up, up, up)
And down (down, down, down, down)
And in the end it's only round 'n round 

[FoxFoxFox]

Louder that words, this thing we call soul

Is there with a pulse, louder than words.