“I don’t hear the song as being about Syd Barrett – I hear it as describing the failed bromance between David Gilmour and Roger Waters”: A music professor breaks down Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here

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You might think that you’re burned out on Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here from classic rock radio and beginner guitarists.

I certainly ran my cassette copy of the album into the ground in my teenage years, then ran the song into the ground again when I was learning guitar. But if you come back to it with fresh ears, you’ll discover that Wish You Were Here is sublimely weird on a structural level.