"High Hopes" is a song from the 1994 Pink Floyd album, The Division Bell, written by David Gilmour and Polly Samson. Its lyrics speak of the things one may have gained and lost in life and also an autobiographical flair to it for Gilmour. It was the last song recorded for the album and was practically completed in a day. Its hard to explain how you feel when you listen to something extraordinarily unique but I will give it a shot.
Well the lyrics have a very pure, green, divine feeling to it. Some also says that Gilmour is talking about the other side but I don't think so. The calming music just add another dimension to it. It has a versatility in it, depends on your mood how you are feeling right that moment. The structure of the music the changes just makes you feel like flying. The more you listen the more you get connected to the song and the more you can connect yourself to it. As I said earlier it gives you a divining peace. The two minutes plus lead at the end of the song which starts around 5:15 is the best lead I heard in my whole life (Lead from "Time" and "Comfortably Numb" are also tremendous).
"High Hopes was really the last one, it was written after all the other (songs) were sort of, in some form or another. I think I wrote it in July or something. It was very, very quick. It's one of those ones that works, quickly, but beautifully, almost immediately and, I came up with a tiny bit of music, just had it on a cassette, just a few bars of piano. And then I went off to get away to a small house somewhere with my girlfriend, Polly, and try and make some progress on the lyric writing. And she gave me a phrase about something about before time wears you down. And I took it from there, and...got stuck into a whole sort of thing about, I suppose, my, it's autobiographical really, I suppose I'd have to say on that one, it's about my life, Cambridge life, and my childhood, I suppose. Yeah, we came up with it very, very quickly, we wrote the words to it in, most of the words to it in a day. And then I went back to the studio, with no one else there, the minute I got back, and put a demo down of it. Did everything myself on it, and it was virtually complete in a day." - David Gilmour talking about "High Hopes" from the US radio premiere of The Division Bell with Redbeard, March, 1994.
It is also the very last song that Pink Floyd has written to date (and its placement at the end of their last album of new material to date) lends itself to the interpretation that the song narrates the story of the band's career, from their beginnings to their grandiose success (with The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall) to their breakup to their carrying on. The final line ("The endless river, forever and ever") ties into one of the band's first hits, "See Emily Play" ("Float on a river, forever and ever").
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