Pink Floyd “Echoes” Lyrics, Meaning & Song Facts

Overhead the albatross
hangs motionless upon the air…

Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” is the 23 minute closing track from 1971’s Meddle. The song is one of the band’s defining progressive rock epics. It was built from atmospheric keyboard textures, David Gilmour and Richard Wright’s shared vocals, oceanic imagery & a long instrumental journey… the song helped point the way toward The Dark Side of the Moon. Here are the lyrics, meaning, song facts, and story behind one of Pink Floyd’s most important early-1970s recordings.

Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine

And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where’s or why’s
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb toward the light

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 calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun

Cloudless 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 lullabies
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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Here’s the official Pink Floyd – Echoes video on YouTube