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in contrast with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Aren%27t_Alright

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When we were young the future was so bright woahohh

The old neighborhood was so alive woahohh

"When you were young, the light shined so bright. Shine on, you crazy diamond"

a song from the same bygone time, we'll romanticizing about, we've not really even started romanticizing about yet.

IIRC that was very specifically about Syd Barrett, the first Pink Floyd frontman, who took* too much acid and “retired early.”

* it is super lame that people dosed him without his consent

Indeed, and while they did the recording for Dark Side of the Moon he miraculously, almost creepily appeared in the studio. They did not recognize him - bald head and all.

I did not know Sid got dozed without consent, but this is not something to do to people. There was knew a girl who was doing it and eventually everyone figured out and started avoiding her like plague.

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