submissions
| Pink Floyd – Stop Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
|
The way that this song goes with "Waiting for the Worms" makes me think that it is about a Nazi soldier or official waiting in his cell to face "The Trial". "I wanna go home, take off this uniform and leave the show" makes me think of a former Nazi awaiting trial and realizing how wrong he and his compatriots were and wanting everything to be over with. "I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know, have I been guilty all this time?" This person is finally starting to realize how bad fascism is (when the Holocaust was going on, many Germans blindly followed orders, not realizing they were wrong). One might think that in the upcoming Trial, he would be tried by the Allies for war crimes, but in that song, the defendant is accused of "showing feeling... of an almost human nature". So could "Stop" be the soldier defecting from the Nazis, and "The Trial" be about the soldier being tried in a Nazi court? |
submissions
| Pink Floyd – Waiting for the Worms Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
|
I think the "sitting in a bunker" line may be talking about a German soldier or even Hitler himself. History buffs will know that Hitler was hiding in a bunker when he killed himself, as the allies closed in on Berlin. I think this song is supposed to represent how Hitler convinced so many people to follow him - the whole song seems like an advertisement. If you want this to happen, all you have to do is follow the worms... |
submissions
| Pink Floyd – Hey You Lyrics
| 21 years ago
|
|
Some of the lyrics in this song remind me of the Nazi references that are made in "Waiting for the Worms". The line, "don't help them to bury the light" reminds me of the theme of Hitler's brainwashing. Later in the song, when the wall was too high, "The worms ate into his brain", could the "worms" be the Nazis? Even if it isn't about fascism, this song could be about people conforming. ("Hey you, always doing what you're told...") |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.
