| Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This is an interesting song. It effects people really enormously. The picture that Storm Thorgerson published for it was of people with their, assumably, lovers, meeting or parting at a train station, they are kissing or holding eachother but are holding mirrors and looking at themselves, the perfect depiction of narcicism. This song is about how people fail to notice what is all around them because of how preoccupied they are with themselves... it reminds me of how, once, near my place, a young lass got off the bus one cold-enough afternoon, the bus driver closed the doors and caught her scarf in them. He hadn't noticed it at all, concentrating solely on the road or his next drop off. She was dragged nearly half a mile. My half-brother's dad was a paramedic that arrived at the scene, and when he went to lift her head up from the back of her skull in an attempt to resucitate her, his hand went through her head and brains to just behind her forehead. He listened to this song in the dark after that incident for a full day, it seems kind of fitting, doesn't it? |
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| Pink Floyd – A Great Day for Freedom Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This is Bollocks! THESE LYRICS ARE SO BADLY WRITTEN! (How do we modify them?) BTW, according to Storm Thorgerson, The Final Cut was meant to be thier last album, in honor of Water's father, and then they'd kick the bucket as a band. The whole CD WAS about their problems, about loved ones, the band's troubles, exes, and poor Sid. I think the song is them trying to ask for real forgiveness, that they don't want to just say it's okay, they want to KNOW it's okay, and that there will be no hard feelings in the end. That's wot it says to me. | |
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