A few days ago in Denver, I was enjoying a fish-tacos lunch with Front-Ranger and EDelMar, and this song came on the restaurant's sound system. I got all excited, because I had posted it here back on May 25 (page 5 of this thread) as one of the songs that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain. What made it especially cool is that just after I posted it the first time, Isabelle wrote that SHE had been just about to post this song, that very day!
The song is by Pink Floyd, so I first heard it years ago, but my familiarity with it was renewed through a beautiful cover by Sparklehorse, on the soundtrack of Lords of Dogtown. It applies to Heath's character in LOD, but it's even more appropriate for BBM -- it sounds so much like Jack talking to Ennis that it gives me chills and/or makes me cry every time I listen to it. Aside from being by a British band, it would fit perfectly into the movie.
Anyway, I told Front-Ranger and EDelMar that I'd repost it, so here it is.
Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.