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| "Poles Apart" | |
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| Song by Pink Floyd | |
| from the album The Division Bell | |
| Published | Pink Floyd Music (1987) Ltd |
| Released | 28 March 1994 (UK) 5 April 1994 (US) |
| Recorded | 1993 |
| Length | 7:04 |
| Label | EMI (UK) Columbia (US) |
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"Poles Apart" is a song by Pink Floyd from the band's 1994 album, The Division Bell .
The lyrics speak to ex-bandmembers Syd Barrett in the first verse, and Roger Waters in the second, according to co-writer Polly Samson. [1] As such, the second verse begins with the words "Hey you", the title of a Waters-penned song from Pink Floyd's earlier album, The Wall .
The song was performed in DADGAD tuning. [2]
[about the D,A,D,G,A,D tuning on "Poles Apart", a new tuning for David Gilmour] (...) the funny thing is that I didn't know it was such an established tuning -- I thought it was something new that I had invented. One day, I was on holiday in Greece and I had an acoustic guitar with me. I just decided to tune the bottom string down to D, and continued to experiment until I arrived at that tuning. Then I mucked around a bit and "Poles Apart" fell out of it a few minutes later.
— David Gilmour, 1994 [3]
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