High Hopes is the closing track on Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell, written by David Gilmour and Polly Samson. Its opening bell became one of the album's most recognisable motifs, echoing the division bell imagery of the title and artwork. The short excerpt circulated on soundboards because a single toll can stand in for the whole song's themes of youth, regret and looking back. Fans reuse it in tributes, memorial edits and classic rock compilations, where listeners identify the source from the first strike alone.