| "Poles Apart" | ||||
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| Song by Pink Floyd from the album The Division Bell | ||||
| Released | March 30, 1994 (UK) April 5, 1994 (US) |
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| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 7:04 | |||
| Label | EMI (UK) Columbia Records (US) |
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| Writer | David Gilmour Polly Samson Nick Laird-Clowes |
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| Producer | Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour | |||
| The Division Bell track listing | ||||
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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-bandmates Syd Barrett in the first verse, and Roger Waters in the second, according to co-writer Polly Samson.[1]
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. | ” |
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—David Gilmour, 1994[3] |
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