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rockfenris2005 03:45 pm UTC 11/02/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Jim Is Unique - Vin 02:51 pm UTC 11/02/15 |
I really like a lot of Roger Waters' work. For a long time, as a Floyd fan, I couldn't really listen to "The Final Cut" album. I'd heard it when I was younger and just didn't really get it because it sounded so different to other Floyd and just so depressing in general. Later on, I really gave it another couple of whirls, and it's really grown on me. But I love how he puts words and lyrics together, like this for example. The Hero's Return Jesus, Jesus, what's it all about Trying to clout these little ingrates into shape When I was their age all the lights went out There was no time to whine and mope about And even now part of me flies over Dresden at angels one five Though they'll never fathom it Behind my sarcasm Desperate memories lie Sweetheart, sweetheart, are you fast asleep Good That's the only time that I can really speak to you And there is something that I've locked away A memory that is too painful To withstand the light of day When we came back from the war The banners and flags hung on everyone's door We danced and we sang in the streets And the church bells rang But burning in my heart The memory smolders on Of the gunner's dying words on the intercom... The Gunner's Dream Floating down through the clouds Memories come rushing up to meet me now But in the space between the heavens And the corner of some foreign field I had a dream I had a dream Goodbye Max Goodbye Ma After the service When you're walking slowly to the car And the silver in her hair Shines in the cold November air You hear the tolling bell And touch the silk in your lapel And as the teardrops rise to meet the comfort of the band You take her frail hand And hold onto the dream! A place to stay Enough to eat Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street Where you can speak out loud About your doubts and fears And what's more no one ever disappears You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door You can relax on both sides of the tracks And maniacs don't blow holes In bandsmen by remote control And everyone has recourse to the law And no one kills the children anymore No one kills the children anymore Night after night Going round and round my brain His dream is driving me insane!!!!!! In the corner of some foreign field The gunner sleeps tonight What's done is done We cannot just write off his final scene Take heed of the dream Take heed The Hero's Return 2 Jesus Christ, I might as well be dead If I can't see how dangerous it must feel to be Training human cogs for the machine Without some shell shocked lunatic like me Bombarding their still soft shells With sticks and stones that were lying around In the pile of unspeakable feelings I'd found When I turned back the stone Turned over the stone Of my own disappointment back home | |
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