David Gilmour: Remember That Night (2007) Movie Script

Breathe, breathe in the air

Don't be afraid to care

Leave but don't leave me

Look around and choose your own ground

For long you live and high you fly

And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry

And all you touch and all you see

Is all your life will ever be

Run, rabbit run

Dig that hole, forget the sun

And when at last the work is done

Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one

For long you live and high you fly

But only if you ride the tide

And balanced on the biggest wave

You race towards an early grave

Ticking away the moments

that make up a dull day

You fritter and waste the hours

in an offhand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground

in your home town

Waiting for someone or something

to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine

Staying home to watch the rain

You are young and life is long

and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find

ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

And you run and you run

to catch up with the sun

but it's sinking

And racing around

to come up behind you again

The sun is the same in a relative way

but you're older

Shorter of breath

and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter

Never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught

or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation

is the English way

The time is gone, the song is over

Thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again

I like to be here when I can

And when I come home cold and tired

It's good to warm my bones beside the fire

And far away across the fields

The tolling of the iron bell

Calls the faithful to their knees

To hear the softly spoken magic spells

Thank you very much.

Good evening to you.

A few tunes from

The Dark Side Of The Moon.

We're going to play the whole of the recent

record for you in the first half tonight.

We'll play lots of better known stuff,

for some of you, later on.

This is On An Island. Thank you.

Remember that night

White steps in the moonlight

They walked here too

Through empty playground

This ghosts' town

Children again

On rusting swings getting higher

Sharing a dream

On an island, it felt right

We lay side by side

Between the moon and the tide

Mapping the stars for a while

Let the night surround you

We're halfway to the stars

Ebb and flow

Let it go

Feel her warmth beside you

Remember that night

The warmth and the laughter

Candles burned

Though the church was deserted

Al dawn we went down

through empty streets to the harbour

Dreamers may leave

but they're here ever after

Let the night surround you

We're halfway to the stars

Ebb and flow

Let it go

Feel her warmth beside you

Thank you very much.

Can I introduce you

to Mr David Crosby and Mr Graham Nash?

That was a song called On An Island,

the title track.

It's about how friends live on

in your memories after they're gone.

This is called The Blue.

Shameless sea

Aimlessly so blue

Midnight-moon shines for you

Still marooned

Silence drifting through

Nowhere to choose

Just blue

Ceaselessly

Star-crossed you and me

Save our souls

We'll be forever blue

Waves roll

Lift us in blue

Drift us

Seep right through

And colour us blue

Wait for me

Shameless you, the sea

Soon, the blue

So soon

Soon, the blue

So soon

All the pieces fall into place

When we walk these fields

And I reach out and touch your face

This earthly heaven is enough for me

So break the bread and pour the wine

I need no blessings but I'm counting mine

Life is much more than money buys

When I see the faith in my children's eyes

I've felt the power in a holy place

Wished for comfort when in need

Now I'm here in a state of grace

This earthly heaven is enough for me

So break the bread and pour the wine

I need no blessings but I'm counting mine

So break the bread and pour the wine

I need no blessings but I'm counting mine

Life is much more than money buys

When I see the faith in my children's eyes

Mr Robert Wyatt playing the cornet

for you here tonight.

Right. Obviously, as well as Robert Wyatt,

we have a few other people up here.

We have Mr Dick Parry.

Who I've been playing with,

on and off, since we were teenagers.

He played on Dark Side Of The Moon

and Wish You Were Here.

As you all probably know.

Next to him we have Mr Jon Carin.

Who I played with at Live Aid in 1985.

He's playing the keyboards,

the slide guitar and he's singing.

And I taught him everything he knows.

To my far right,

El Magnifico, Mr Phil Manzanera.

Who helped produce the album

we're performing for you this half.

Next to him we have Mr Guy Pratt.

On the bass guitar and on stand-up.

Boom-boom.

Next to him we have Mr Steve DiStanislao.

Who I saw when Polly and I went to see

Crosby & Nash last year at the Festival Hall.

We just thought

he was too good not to nick, so...

And, of course, Mr Richard Wright.

Right. This is a song called Smile.

Would this do to make it all right

While sleep has taken you

where I'm out of sight

I'll make my getaway

Time on my own

Search for a better way

To find my way home to your smile

Your smile

Wasting days and days

on this fight

Always down

And up half the night

Hopeless to reminisce

through the dark hours

We'll only sacrifice

what time will allow us

You're sighing

All alone

though you're right here

Now it's time to go from your sad stare

Make my getaway

Time on my own

Leaving's a better way

To find my way home to your smile

Your smile

Take a breath

Take a deep breath now

Take a breath

A deep breath now

Take a breath

Take a deep breath now

Take a breath

A deep breath now

Take a breath

Take a deep breath now

Take a breath

A deep breath now

Take a breath

Take a deep breath now

Take a breath

When you're down

is where you find yourself

When you drown there's nothing else

When you're lost you'll need to turn yourself

Then you'll find out that there's no one else

To make the moves that you can do

When you fall from grace your eyes in blue

Your every breath becomes another world

And the far horizon's living hell

Take a breath

Take a deep breath now

Take a breath

A deep breath now

Take a breath

Take a deep breath now

Take a breath

This kind of love is hard to find

I never got to you by being kind

If I'm the one to throw you overboard

At least I showed you how to swim for shore

When you're down

is where you'll know yourself

That if you drown there's nothing else

When you're lost you need to find yourself

Then you'll find out that there's no one else

Take a breath

He's sending stones skimming and flying

Circles spinning out his time

Though the earth is dying

his head is in the stars

Chances are this spark's a lifetime

Out of touch he'll live in wonder

Won't lose sleep, he'll just pretend

In his world

he won't go under

Turns without him 'til the end

Rivers run dry

but there's no line on his brow

Says he doesn't care who's saved

It's just the dice you roll

The here and now

And he's not guilty or afraid

One day he'll slip away

Cool water flowing all around

In the river and on the ground

Leave a pocketful of stones

and not believe in other lives

Until then he'll live in wonder

He won't fight or comprehend

In his world he won't go under

Turns without him until the end

Where we start

is where we end

We step out sweetly

with nothing planned

Along by the river

we feed bread to the swans

And then over the footbridge

to the woods beyond

We walk ourselves weary

You and |

There's just this moment

I light a campfire

away from the path

We lie in the bluebells

A woodpecker laughs

Time passes slowly

Our hearts entwined

All of the dark times left behind

The day is done

The sun sinks low

We fold up the blanket

It's time to go

We walk ourselves weary

Arm in arm

Back through the twilight

Home again

We're home again

We waltz in the moonlight

and the embers' glow

So much behind us

Still far to go

Thank you very much indeed.

We're gonna take a short break,

about 20 minutes. We'll be right back.

Remember when you were young

You shone like the sun

Shine on you crazy diamond

Now there's a look in your eyes

Like black holes in the sky

Shine on you crazy diamond

You were caught on the crossfire

of childhood and stardom

Blown on the steel breeze

Come on you target for faraway laughter

Come on you stranger, you legend

You martyr

and shine

You reached for the secret too soon

You cried for the moon

Shine on you crazy diamond

Threatened by shadows at night

And exposed in the light

Shine on you crazy diamond

Well, you wore out your welcome

With random precision

Rode on the steel breeze

Come on you raver, you seer of visions

Come on you painter, you piper

You prisoner

And shine

Mr Dick Parry.

This is Fat Old Sun.

When the fat old sun in the sky is falling

Summer evenin' birds are calling

Summer Sunday and a year

The sound of music in my ears

Distant bells, new mown grass

Smells so sweet

By the river holding hands

Roll me up and lay me down

And if you sit

don't make a sound

Pick your feet up off the ground

And if you hear

as the warm night falls

A silver sound from a tongue so strange

Sing to me, sing to me

When that fat old sun in the sky is falling

Summer evenin' birds are calling

Children's laughter in my ears

The last sunlight disappears

And if you sit

don't make a sound

Pick your feet up off the ground

And if you hear

as the warm night falls

The silver sound from a time so strange

Sing to me, sing to me

Where were you

when I was burned and broken

While the days slipped by

from my window watching

And where were you

when I was hurt and I was helpless

Because the things you say

and the things you do surround me

While you were hanging yourself

on someone else's words

Dying to believe in what you heard

I was staring straight

into the shining sun

Lost in thought

and lost in time

While the seeds of life

and the seeds of change were planted

Outside the rain

fell dark and slow

While I pondered on

this dangerous but irresistible pastime

I took a heavenly ride through our silence

I knew the moment had arrived

For killing the past

and coming back to life

I took a heavenly ride through our silence

I knew the waiting had begun

And I headed straight

into the shining sun

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived

when we were young

In a world of magnets and miracles

Our thoughts strayed constantly

and without boundary

The ringing of the Division Bell had begun

Along the Long Road

and on down the Causeway

Do they still meet there by the Cut

There was a ragged band

that followed in our footsteps

Running before time took our dreams away

Leaving the myriad small creatures

trying to tie us to the ground

To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener

The light was brighter

With friends surrounded

The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers

of bridges glowing behind us

To a glimpse of how green it was

on the other side

Steps taken forwards

but sleepwalking back again

Dragged by the force of some inner tide

At a higher altitude with flag unfurled

We reached the dizzy heights

of that dreamed-of world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition

There's a hunger still unsatisfied

Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon

Though down this road we've been

SO many times

The grass was greener

The light was brighter

The taste was sweeter

The nights of wonder

With friends surrounded

The dawn mist glowing

The water flowing

The endless river

Forever and ever

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 wheres or whys

But something stirs and something tries

And starts to climb towards 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

And no-one speaks and no-one tries

And no one flies around the sun

Cloudless every day 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

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

And did they get you to trade

your heroes for ghosts

Hot ashes for trees

Hot air for a cool breeze

Cold comfort for change

And did you exchange

a walk-on part in the war

for a lead role in a cage

How I wish, how I wish you were here

We're just two lost souls

swimming in a fish bowl

Year after year

Running over the same old ground

What have we found

The same old fears

Wish you were here

Thank you very much indeed.

Just inviting David and Graham

back up here.

We're going to sing

one of their songs for you now.

This song is for old times.

Find the cost

of freedom

Buried in the ground

Mother Earth

will swallow you

Lay your body down

Find the cost

of freedom

Buried in the ground

Mother Earth

will swallow you

Lay your body

down

Before we finish...

I'd like to invite Mr David Bowie up here

to sing a song for you.

Thank you very much.

I hope I warrant that.

Any time, David.

David Gilmour.

Thank you so much for the invitation.

Thank you.

One more?

Hello

Is there anybody in there

Just nod if you can hear me

Is there anyone at home

Come on now

I hear you're feeling down

Well, I can ease your pain

Get you on your feet again

Relax

I'll need some information first

Just the basic facts

Can you show me where it hurts

There is no pain, you are receding

A distant ship's smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move

but I can't hear what you're saying

When I was a child I had a fever

My hands felt just like two balloons

Now ['ve got that feeling once again

I can't explain, you would not understand

This is not how [ am

I have become

comfortably numb

I have become

comfortably numb

Okay

Just a little pin prick

There'll be no more

But you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up

I do believe it's working, good

That'll keep you going through the show

Come on, it's time to go

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship's smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move

but I can't hear what you're saying

When I was a child

I caught a fleeting glimpse

Out of the corner of my eye

I turned to look but it was gone

I cannot put my finger on it now

The child is grown

The dream is gone

And I have become

comfortably numb

Thank you very much indeed.

Good night to you.

Thank you very much indeed. Good night.

David Gilmour: Remember That Night (2007) - full transcript