David Gilmour has named his choice for Roger Waters' greatest lyric, and pointedly chosen an obscure early track rather than one of the celebrated songs from Pink Floyd's classic albums. Asked at a Q&A which song contained Waters' best lyrics, Gilmour suggested "Walk With Me Sydney", a song that went unreleased until it appeared on the 2015 retrospective First Recordings EP. The choice is widely read as a subtle dig at Waters, given the pair's long and often bitter rift since Waters left the band in 1985.

The song itself is a slight, repetitive early work consisting largely of the line "Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, roll with me, Sydney" repeated over and over, with a rhyme pairing "meningitis" with "peritonitis". This contrasts sharply with the emotionally resonant lyrics Waters wrote for Pink Floyd's classic era, such as "we're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl" from "Wish You Were Here", widely regarded as capturing the fractured relationship between Gilmour and Waters themselves. Gilmour and Waters' creative partnership, forged on landmark albums including Dark Side of the Moon, ultimately broke down amid a lengthy legal dispute after Waters' departure, and the two have remained publicly critical of one another ever since.