Lyrics Christy Moore

Christy Moore

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Remember when you were young you shone like the sun

Shine on you crazy diamond

Now there's a look in your eye like black holes in the sky

Shine on you crazy diamond

Your were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom

And blown upon the steel breeze

Come on you target for faraway laughter

Come on you legend you stranger you martyr and shine

You reached for the secret too soon you cried for the moon

Shine on you crazy diamond

Frightened by shadows at night, exposed in the light

Shine on you crazy diamond

You wore out your welcome with random precision

You rode upon the steel breeze

Come on you raver you seer of visions

Come on you painter you piper you prisoner and shine

Nobody knows where you are how near and how far

Shine on you crazy diamond

Pile on many more layers I'll be joining you there

Shine on you crazy diamond

And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterdays triumph

We'll sail upon the steel breeze

Come on you boy child you winner and loser

Come on you miner of truth and delusion and shine