| Pink Floyd – The Final Cut Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think those who believe the lyrics were speaking of commiting suicide (raised the blade) are missing what roger was speaking of. what the song was dealing with was roger's failure (fear of and failure to) to reveal his true self to his wife and showing his true feelings. because his youthful experiences with pornography had given him a perverted sort of perspective on what a real relationship between a man and a woman should be. in his failure to be truly honest and reveal his true self to her---he lost her. partly to her religious conversion. this song speaks to her in religious terms asking her get past his defenses and knock on the priest's door and if he's in----he'll show her what's behind his wall. that the real reason for his failure was how his early life was shaped. that made his fearful of truly opening up to her and showing his dark side. fear that she would not love him if he did. what he was speaking of when he raised the blade was making a final commitment to bare his naked feelings----to tear the curtain down. to stand naked before her, but ingrained fears are powerful and when he was distracted by a call from something else-----he turned from that decision and then (as it usually is) he never had the nerve to make the final cut. this is my favorite roger waters lyric. like many others I also see correlations with my own life growing up. a person's life is shaped in their childhood. that does not mean that a person cannot later change the shape of their life, but that like roger raising the blade (and making the final cut from his old self)---- the deceitful and fearful heart tends to give in to an escape route. like the bible says: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" |
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