The song opens with a rhythm guitar riff notably similar to that of “The Nile Song”. However, unlike that track, “Ibiza Bar” does not change keys, staying with a verse of E and D major chords, and a chorus resolving to A major. The chorus could be said to modulate, via a series of chords based on ac...
[Verse 1]
I'm so afraid
Of all the mistakes that I've made
Shaking every time that I awake
I feel like a cardboard cut-out man
[Hook]
So build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the story line is kind
[Verse 2]
I've aged and aged since the first page
I've lived every line that you wrote
Take me down, take me down
From the shelf above your head
[Hook]
And build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the story line is kind
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
I live where I'm left
On the shelf like the rest
And the epilogue reads like a sad song
Please pick up your camera
And use me again
[Hook]
And build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the storyline is kind
Yeaaaah!
[Instrumental Outro]
Ibiza Bar was written by Nick Mason & Richard Wright & David Gilmour & Roger Waters.
Ibiza Bar was produced by Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd released Ibiza Bar on Fri Jun 13 1969.