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Pink Floyd wrote much of their 1975 album Wish You Were Here, including the title track, thinking about former member Syd Barrett who had left the group due to a mental breakdown.
Here, Wyclef uses this track to finish out the album and invoking a very similar feeling to the original.
In this case...
[Intro]
Let's go
[Verse 1]
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?
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for goals
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage
[Chorus]
Whether you listenin' to hip hip-hop
Or you tuning to rock
Refugees on your box
We gonna take over ya blocks
[Verse 2]
Let's go
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're jus two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year
Runnin over the same old ground
But have we found the same old fears
Wish you were here
[Chorus]
Whether you listenin' to rock
Or you pumpin' the hip hip hop
Refugees on your box
[Verse 3]
Critics don't mistake this for just any cover tune
I'ma take y'all to the "Dark Side of the Moon"
Kickin' in my mom's room this song was just a thought
A young refugee labeled, just come with a passport
Dad used to tell me about the American dream
My dream was waking up the projects
A young teen listenin' to hip-hop, my brother tuned me into rock
Put me up on Pink Floyd, a band from the British blocks
[Chorus]
Whether you pumpin' the hip hip hop
Or you tuning to rock
Refugees on your box
We gonna take over the blocks
From NJ to BK to the UK
Wish You Were Here was written by Roger Waters & David Gilmour & Jerry Duplessis & Wyclef Jean.
Wish You Were Here was produced by Jerry Duplessis & Wyclef Jean.
Wyclef Jean released Wish You Were Here on Tue Aug 22 2000.
Wyclef sheds his thoughts in an NME interview on why he decided to cover a rock classic;
The guitar has been my hobby since I was little and Wish You Were Here, if you could play that, you were officially on your way to being a good guitar player as far as rock was concerned.It was one of my favour...