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High Hopes

High Hopes reflection- 

In the song High Hopes sung by Pink Floyd, one of the first things I noticed was the bell. The bell continues through the whole song which I think relates to how every day passes by the same, expectations are the same day after day...until something different happens. Something outside of your daily routine.  One of the lines says, "Running before time took our dreams away" Since I think that the bell that continues for the whole song represents time this means that you have to chase your dreams before it's too late. Dreams don't chase themselves. 

I also believe this song could be about a strong addiction, the bell could be like what I said above, every day is the same over and over again.  Just think if you were on hard drugs every day for years (like the band members of Pink Floyd), eventually all your days would fade into each other, and you would lose a sense of time. The line after that reads "to a life consumed by slow decay" This could mean how the drugs eat away at your life and slowly take over.  

 In the stanza directly below, they compare how the grass was greener, and the light was brighter, friends were coming around and overall, everything seemed to be going well. This may be on the flip side of the addiction after they were clean. Another reason to believe this is it mentioned "a glimpse of how green everything was on the other side" Even just getting a glimpse of how good everything is going on the outside of the world you have been living and rotting away in for years, days all faded together it might make you want to change.  

About halfway through the song I noticed the mood changed, no singing just instrumental that had more of an eerie feeling to it than the rest of the song, the instrumentation it goes back to how it was before and the rest of the lines talk about how good everything is going, with the last line being "forever and ever" which would mean making a promise to yourself to staying clean and out of hard drugs forever. 

How I see it is having high hopes will most likely get you hurt but sometimes you have to have high hopes to accomplish things you want in life and chase your dreams to make them come true. With that being said, having high hopes can also lead you to disappointment.  

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