Singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist, Syd Barrett, died peacefully just a few days ago on July 7th (link). He was one of the founding members of the band Pink Floyd, and will forever be memorialized by the song Shine On You Crazy Diamond written by Roger Waters.
I hate to get all sentimental on you, but I'm posting the lyrics to the song here. Even if you know the words by heart, please take a moment to read over them in his memory.
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 eyes, like black holes in the
sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on
the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel
breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on
you stranger, you legend, you martyr,
and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the
moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by
shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you
crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random
precision, rode on 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 or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile
on many more layers and I'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the
shadow of yesterday's triumph, and sail on the steel
breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser, come
on you miner for truth and delusion,
and shine!