The pain, sadness and melancholy in this song is almost unbearable... yet it is just so very beautiful and pure magic. Indescribable!

This was their "goodbye" song - the last song on their last studio album. One of their very best and still gets me every time....

David Gilmour might not be the flashiest guitar player but for pure emotion he has the others beat by a country mile. 🎸

When its all said and done Pink Floyd will be reminded as the Mozart or Beethoven/Bach of our generation. Absolute masterpiece of outofworldly musicians.

Nobody has done justice to this song like you two have. This is absolutely the best version of this song to react to. Both of you showed true, real emotion, which comes from knowing what the underlying message of this song is. Thank you.

So clear neither of the viewers saw the change in tone coming. Re-watched this video and both viewers were completely taken aback by the dark shift. Don't let the soothing voice fool you, Pink Floyd made art, not entertainment. The fact that they did it so with such beautiful, memorable music is testament to their genius.

"Steps taken forwards but sleep walking back again" what a line.

Yes, this song is about saying goodbye to innocence and your childhood. It most definately gets you in the feels. One of their best IMO!

Pink Floyd is a experience that everyone should have, at least once.

When my dad passed we had this song play in church s his coffin left.... Vicar told at first he wasn't happy with the "Hard Rock"Music in church, afterwards he told me and my brother that he was surprised how beautyfull this song was and how it fitted our das's farewell.. Still special memories with this song...........

So a Pink Floyd song causes you to think about life. Surprise, surprise.

Bless you siri for having a little tear there.

The pulse live performances are unlike any other I’ve ever seen

Being American, you probably do not realise the significance of the 'Division Bell'. In the UK Parliament, once a debate is finished and a vote is to be taken, they ring a bell that sounds throughout the building. It is a signal that every MP has to make their way to the Division Lobbies to register their vote on the matter in hand. When they hear the Division Bell they have to make up their minds which way to vote, and after that there is no going back. It is used as a metaphor in this song for those moments in your life when you decide to go one way rather than another.

The tears in sori's eyes during that song are how I feel every time I hear Floyd... Like the force of some inner tide

Always brings me to tears. Other bands may make music, but Pink Floyd did something more.

My favorite Pink Floyd song of all time.

You guys nailed this one. Sori’s reaction was the same as mine almost every time I hear this song. I usually end up in tears. It was greener, sweeter, tastier, warmer, so much more wonder. Youth was all so fleeting.....and then it’s gone. Vin, you nailed the meaning and the grove, but I’m like your wife, I get lost in the emotion of the masterpiece. Thanks guys. Vin you

Vin and Sori, 25 years from now, you will be watching some type of futuristic worldwide media format. The future version of KZfaq (probably with a very different name). Some young couple will be listening to Pink Floyd - "High Hopes" for the first time. A wave of nostalgia will wash over you as you think back to your first time hearing the song. You will smile at the memory. That is what I just experienced with your reaction.

This song should be in the hall of fame as Pink Floyd's most brilliant masterpiece ✨️ Absolutely incredible work of art 🎨 👏 ❤️

The Division Bell was their second album without Roger Waters. At the time, Gilmour, Wright and Mason did a bunch of jam sessions to create material for a new album. They originally thought of doing the Division Bell material as disk 1 of a double album and then having an instrumental disk 2. What was going to be the instrumental disk 2 material was shelved and they released the Division Bell, which ended with High Hopes. Twenty years later, after Rick Wright had passed away, Gilmour decided to release The Endless River, the final Floyd album. This would consist of the best material from those jam sessions that would have been disk 2. He added one new song at the end to cap it off. This last song is the only piece of music with lyrics on the album. The title Division Bell came from the author Douglas Adams, after he had heard the unreleased album. He was at a charity event with Gilmour and suggested it as a title to Gilmour. Gilmour liked it and the phrase 'Division Bell' was already referenced in High Hopes, so it made sense. The Division Bell is a what is used to call the parliament in England to a vote. Upon the ringing, the people line up on opposite sides to demonstrate their opposition or support of legislation etc. In this album, it becomes the symbol of people being divided by various aspects of life and ideology. As good as this version of High Hopes is, I feel that Gilmour's version from his Live at Pompeii concert is the saddest and best version. He is performing it at age 70 and you can truly see the depth of emotion as the theme of the song has only grown more emotionally intense over the past 20+ year. I know you don't want to repeat content for reactions, but you should make an exception in this case. That version is the most emotional performance of a Floyd song I've ever seen. Especially the outro solo. Check it out here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y96mmNSK17GuhHk.html

What’s has to be said. That this live version is insanely close to the studio. Pink Floyd are one of the best live bands for recreating the feel they intended

Nobody does meloncholy like David Gilmour. His voice was the perfect expression of Floyd's often dark sometimes sorrowful material. The last line of the song of this their last vocal studio album is "the endless river" which would become the title of their very last album, a collection of sorts of previously unreleased instrumental studio material. Btw, Floyd was around since the 60s. Can't believe you thought High Hopes was a cover of some old Hollywood musical number. Geez!! LOL

People who love the floyd are one big happy family, we have great music in common, make freinds that way. 👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗👍👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

You all did an amazing reaction to this!!! I had the fortune of seeing Pink Floyd on this Pulse tour in 1994 at The Alamodome in San Antonio. There were 47,000 fans, and I had 18th row seats on the floor. An experience of a lifetime!! Again, you all did a great reaction!!!

David Gilmour...what a voice. And that guitar! Nightwish cover of this song it's amazing to.

High hopes...young people listening to our good and old Pink Floyd...👍🙂👍

Division Bell is their last true album. Endless River was a tribute to Richard Wright, they took stuff they cut from the Division Bell and put together an album with a lot of Richard’s work on The Division Bell

The genius of David Gilmour!!!!!!

How many people can go from classical guitar to steel pedal guitar. David Gilmour is the man.

This was the last time Pink Floyd toured as a band, this was recorded in 1994 at Earls Court London I was lucky enough to be there, 26 years and many concerts later its still the most amazing musical experience I've ever had.

Pink Floyd - Sorrow from PULSE would be a great choice too!

It was so amazing to be four rows from the stage, at this very performance, more than 25 years ago! It was a complete sensory overload.

Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away - from the "Momentary Lapse of Reason" album

Our fathers and grandfathers used to look back to their childhood and remember how hard they had it. You know... "When I was your age we didn't have Christmas tree stands, we had to take turns holding the tree up!" (name that reference). Now we look back to our childhood and we remember how good we had it. When our parents were growing up, life was getting better and better. And while we were growing up life was getting worse and worse. The past is something we all should learn from. If we don't how can we ever change the future?

This is my favorite post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd song :) Nightwish did a really great live cover of High Hopes on their 'End Of An Era' dvd :)

So rare that live band appearances are superior to the studio version. This song transports me back to my mindset at that time ,so emotional.

No one does beautiful sadness like Richard Wright and David Gilmour.

Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii ECHOES from the 70's. The band at its best! Please react to that.

I would definitely watch you watch all of PULSE on a stream.

Savor this journey, a band such as this IS NOT “once in a lifetime...” Pink Floyd is “only once ever.”

I'm 62. I love High Hopes so much. I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, their stories will live for ever. Because they are beautifully written and performed stories with sublime music included.

David making that steel guitar sing...so damn beautiful! Man...that is how it is done...masters of their craft!

When Mr gilmour sits at the lap steel it takes you to a place that you think nothing can take you, it's like a magic spell has been cast over you. For me 1 of the top 3 songs from these unbelievable magicians

See how childhood memories come flooding back when you listen to this song. The music of Floyd always seems to draw you in and evoke different feelings, depending on the subject. I've never experienced the same level of emotion from any other group.

Anyone who lives on this planet should not miss the opportunity to listen to pink Floyd, no matter where you live and what language you speak

You gotta react to Pink Floyd - Dogs. It's a crazy sonic journey with very hard hitting lyrics.

I love her reaction. Seconds into it she. Got goose bumps then seconds after that the emotional response was evident. Pure and genuine .. go girl.

VinAndSori This really needs to be followed up with Coming Back to Life from the same concert. Perhaps two of the most influential songs I have ever heard.

One of my all-time favorite songs. So beautiful, emotional, sad, and inspiring all at the same time. Cheers.

I was fortunate to have been at that concert in 1994. Seriously, that was not a concert....it was an ethereal experience which I will never forget.

I am now 74 and this song has even more meaning now.

A work mate of mine introduced me to Floyd Knew him for 40 years when he died left his picture by the stage of a Floyd concert. Cheers Graham RIP👍

There will never be another Pink Floyd.

I don't care what anyone says, Pink Floyd by far has THE best live performances.

Listen to the lyrics version of “Dogs” off the Animals record. Masterpiece

Well, you should do a full PULSE straight session! You will never find a better live show, ever

The Endless River are songs written during the Division Bell Sessions.The Endless River highlighted Richard Wrights Keyboards; another must own Floyd Album.🤙

I never get sick of listening to his solos. Gilmore is the GOAT.

First of all, respect for not stopping the song at all. Letting it play and enjoying it. Keep doing that. Second, if you dont get chills when listening to this then you are not right in the head. Could see your respect and awe for it.

Pink Floyd - Dogs. Another incredible journey from their album Animals.

With the new Pulse remasters, you have to do Keep Talking, One of These Days. Hell, do them all.

Plase King Crimson - in the court of the crimson king

Melancholy. Not necessarily a bad emotion, but powerful. One Of These Days from Pulse. Contrast it to High Hopes to see how insanely good this concert was. Run Like Hell, they pull out all the stops with the light show. Those rows of lights at the front of the stage are the brightest I've ever seen.

People who got to witness pink floyd live are so lucky. Another emotional one like this that's off their album momentary lapse of reason is on the turning away.

The last words of the song and the album are “the endless river… for ever and ever” … and then 20 years later they made the album The endless river…

There is just one problem with pink floyd , when you start listening to them so cant listen to other stuffs. You just cant. You cant compare them with anyone.

A division bell is a bell rung in or around a parliament to signal a division (a vote) to members of the relevant chamber so that they may take part. They may also be used to signal the start or end of parliamentary proceedings, and often produce different sounds or coloured lights to identify the chamber affected. The bells are used in the immediate neighbourhood of the Palace of Westminster (which houses Parliament) to signal that a division is occurring and that members of the House of Commons or of the House of Lords have eight minutes to get to their chosen division lobby to vote for or against the resolution. The call for a division is also displayed on annunciator screens throughout the Palace of Westminster. The division bells are also sounded at the start of a daily sitting, at the end of the two-minute prayers that start each day, and when the house rises. Division bells have been used in this way in the United Kingdom for over 150 years.

I Was there EARLS COURT 1994 amazing night to remember top top band.how can you better this band for there music and live shows second to none. R.I.P RICK WRIGHT

This song relates to many of us.........Broken dreams and lost loves.....things that have slipped through our fingers, and the cold realization, that we can never go back.

Watching your comments after the video really hit me hard when you mentioned being 35 and looking back to when your 13, then being 60 looking back to 35 really brought the reality that I'm almost 60 and I probably spend way to much time looking back, specially since for me my life was better back then compared to now but didn't realize it at the time.

Gilmour and then girlfriend (now wife) Polly knew the Division Bell album was done when they created this masterpiece, if you listen to the words against that awesome melody, it is truly awesome with some sadness.

Great reaction. It’s such an emotional song, beautifully composed with so many layers that really tug at the heartstrings. David Gilmour performs a version of this at his Royal Albert Hall concert with an extended acoustic guitar solo at the end which is utterly beautiful and always makes me tear up. It’s on YT and it’s well worth checking out.

This tune is rapidly overtaking Comfortably Numb and Time as my favorite .PF song. As always Gilmours steel solo at the end is transcendental.

It’s a powerful song… Pink Floyd does that to your soul

I dont know about u all but that song hits different.

This is now my favorite Pink Floyd tune. Magic song.

Pink Floyd music is God speaking to humanity. Direct to our soul.

I just realized my life is empty I'm watching reaction videos, but pink floyd works

Every time I here that song, my soul leaves my body, a since of a chill grabs me. Pink Floyd so underrated!

One of the most emotional guitar solos I’ve ever heard. Gilmour knows how to poor his soul into it. Thank you peace ✌️

Incidentally, the text was written by David Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson. A great author. Just like most of the lyrics from David's solo albums. They are currently doing a live stream on facebook every Thursday evening. Interesting to look at. The best and most emotional version is that from the concert in Pompeii 2016 (David Gilmour .... live in Pompeii).

Omg the way you talk about your childhood building treehouses, eating candy and sleeping in your bathing suit made me smile.

This song is everyone's journey in life....... So lucky to grow up with these guys.. But the feelings of this song.... God the mortality of us all...

Pink Floyd - the Supremos of music. Attention to detail is beyond NASA. Whoever has ever attended a Pink Floyd concert or in my case Roger Waters concert, it's like performing a pilgrimage. Philosophically speaking lyrics relating to "Mortality" is always a pronounced theme in Pink Floyd / Roger Waters or in simpler words "Human" is a centerpiece of their story.

Musically, a bloody f’ning masterpiece! I cried, and that’s saying a lot!

I haven't read through the comment section to see if anyone else has mentioned it but David Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson co-wrote the lyrics to this song. Polly is a novelist as well as a lyricist. If I recall correctly, she co-wrote the lyrics to all the songs on The Division Bell with the exception of one or two songs.

Pink Floyd are absolute unicum ... Look at "sorrow" live pulse 1994. Belive me, after you hear and see it you are speechless. But before you hear and see this song, please fasten your seat belt ;)

Love you guys. Need to check out SORROW from the Pulse concert. Wow.

When you are 60 this song becomes more valuable, as now you have your lifetime to remember. The funny thing is that you will still cherish those times when you were 5 or 6 and the summer memories will always be with you to be recovered and bring the same warmth back to you. I am about to turn 61.... I had the luxury to be there during the 1960s and onward. Magic always stays with you. I got to watch my kids grow and live with them through their summers. I am now surrounded by young families and get to relive these times over again and again with each new generation. You never forget! It is wonderful. When the neighbor’s kids offer you a frozen ice in the plastic sleeve... you are right there again. That little kid you once were never leaves your mind.... you just need to be open to the experience again and part of you will be.5 years old.

This song hit me so hard when I first heard it. I was getting tearful with my parents because I was moving away for university, and had just got back from a beach holiday with my group of friends; there was this underlying feeling that we may not be together as one group again. I was already a Pink Floyd fan but hadn't checked their latter day stuff out. My Dad said 'You should really hear this song' and I just burst into tears. This still hits the spot every time.

Oh my, it's so good to watch the reactions as folks feel the same buzz we felt back in the day. As weird as it sounds, it brings tears to my eyes. Loved the reaction guys. Love from New Zealand.

VAS: I don't think I've ever heard a song that was better / more special / more emotional than this one - and from the looks on your faces, you probably agree. Floyd forever! And, as amazing as this live version is, the perfect sonic qualities of the studio version merit a listen as well :-)

always a tear droping with this song. The perfect and (Saudade) lyrics ever. And this concert is a Masterclass for the ages and ages comming

Her reaction when the chorus comes in the first time. So emotional ❤️

Moonspell - Full Moon Madness Moonspell - Night Eternal

Fantastic song and I was lucky to be there to witness one of the Pulse Shows in London. One of the best bands ever.

In the lyrics they show they understand time well before they were actually supposed to. I was 23 when I went to a Pulse concert,... and especially this song has grown so much over the past 28 years

How can anyone not like this . Their music is timeless. Sit back shut your eyes , have a scoob or a nice beer .it doesn't get any better ❤

Man I wish you did “Live in Gnack” or live in Pompeii. The acoustic guitar outro is incredible