I never understood the love for layby, it's such a forgettable track
Not only the best track on IA....but the greatest PT song of all time. As much as I love all PT songs, this is the only song that is so breathtakingly gorgeous and fantastic, that I am compelled to *REPLAY* the song every time I hear it. Very few times have I ever listened to IA all the way through without stopping to play HiaL twice.
I'm really shocked that anyone could be a PT fan and not be stunned at the perfection of this song. There's not a single song in PT's catalog that "paints a picture" of what's happening in the song better than HiaL. I've never...EVER... heard a four and a half minute song say so much in so little time. It's the only song under 7 minutes that I would classify as "an epic".
It's like being a huge PF fan and calling Breathe/Time "a throw away track"...