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Inspired by Roger Waters’ childhood reverie ‘Grantchester Meadows’, David Gilmour set to work on his own rose-tinted evocation of his early childhood in Cambridge. The church bells of Evensong ease you into this gentle acoustic evocation of youth spent swimming in the river Cam, laying under blue skies and smelling the sweet scent of newly mown grass from youth’s endless summer. The song also chronicles, as would many of Gilmour’s future songs, the passage from that idyllic childhood to the harsher adult world.