“Hey You” by Pink Floyd

"Hey You" is one of the loneliest corners of The Wall, Pink Floyd's eleventh studio album, from 1979. Roger Waters wrote it, but David Gilmour does much of the heavy lifting: he picks the opening arpeggios on an acoustic guitar restrung so one string rings two octaves above normal, plays the fretless bass in place of Waters, and shares the lead vocal with him, singing as the album's walled-in hero, Pink. Richard Wright's Rhodes piano drifts in, Nick Mason's drums arrive with the second verse, and the song swells from a murmur into a plea hurled at a wall that won't answer.

Bob Ezrin produced with Gilmour and Waters, James Guthrie co-producing. It turned up as the B-side of "Comfortably Numb" in June 1980, but was cut from the 1982 film to keep the running time down.

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