| Pink Floyd – [The Wall Concept] Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is what the whole album really comes across to me as. For granted, I'm probably wrong about 90% of it, but this is what I always interpret it to be. And yes, it is about Pink and not Waters/Barrett. IN THE FLESH?: This is a prologue to Pink's story, in one of his shows, and he's addressing what he truly is and why he's that because people interpret him as just a mindless drug obsessed rocker. THE THIN ICE: The very beginning of the story, starting with Pink's birth, and concluding with the story of Pink being overprotected by his mother (which is what I always see 'the thin ice' as being). ABITW PART 1: This is quite simply, Pink's father's death and Pink wondering what he left for him. THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES/ABITW PART 2: This is obviously Pink's school days, which were incredibly troubled, and Pink's general opinions on it, expressed in ABITW part 2. MOTHER/GOODBYE BLUE SKY: These refer to Pink's overprotective mother in different ways. Mother is just all the things that she wants to protect Pink from, but Goodbye Blue Sky is all the dangers that are coming about around the area because of the war. Simple as that. EMPTY SPACES/YOUNG LUST/DON'T LEAVE ME NOW: These three songs are about Pink's wife, with Empty Spaces representing their empty marriage, Young Lust being both of them and their separate mindsets, and Don't Leave Me Now representing Pink's further depression over it. ABITW PART 3/GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD: ABITW part 3 represents the very beginning of Pink's insanity, as well as him leaving behind the depression he faced with his wife, and Goodbye Cruel World is just a continuation of that. In conclusion, disc 1 is Pink's growth and depression which manifests into the essence of disc 2. HEY YOU: Really just Pink's beginning of his insanity and realizing that he's becoming different, what with the insanity that's enveloping him, and he's expressing a message that he has become different, and if anyone can see what he used to be. IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?/NOBODY HOME: More into Pink's insanity and how the wall has separated Pink from the world. VERA/BRING THE BOYS BACK HOME: And of course, Pink obviously needed drugs to continue with his shows as a rocker. So as these two go along, he's doing the drugs and collapses to what ends up as: COMFORTABLY NUMB: And this is Pink in the doctor, expressing what he saw as a child, his depression from his early years, and the doctor helping him to get to his next show. So it is kind of a symbiosis of his mental depression, insanity, and drug use to me. THE SHOW MUST GO ON/IN THE FLESH: And this is the show itself, with In The Flesh being Pink's insanity really being released. I occasionally see In The Flesh being from where the prologue left off, but that's just my weird interpretation. RUN LIKE HELL/WAITING FOR THE WORMS: The aftermath of the show itself, and Pink getting closer to the point in which he cannot go on at home. Run Like Hell is him escaping from everything, and Waiting For The Worms is him simply waiting for the climax. STOP/THE TRIAL: Stop is the climax itself, and it results in what The Trial is. Really all it is to me is Pink completely losing his mind, and with the flashbacks of the schoolmaster, his wife, and his mother, he eventually loses his mind and decides he doesn't care anymore, and what he has always dreading for all his life finally happens: he is 'exposed before his peers', and the wall is torn down. OUTSIDE THE WALL: And after the chaos that ensues from The Trial, Pink finally goes through the horror mentioned above, and finally meets his death. Nothing more, nothing less. Many of the songs can be interpreted in several different ways, though... particularly The Thin Ice, Goodbye Blue Sky, Young Lust, Comfortably Numb, and Run Like Hell. |
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| Pink Floyd – Time Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is an absolute masterpiece. Not only because the guitar solo is amazing, but the lyrics are extremely meaningful, and it's almost impossible not to relate them to your life. "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way" We're all bored and can't find anything better to do with our time. So we just waste our time. "Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine Staying home to watch the rain" We want to get out of our house and the sheltered world that we live in, and thus we wait... "And you are young and life is long And there is time to kill today" This speaks for itself. We continue to waste time when we're young, thinking that 'hey, I'll never be any older and by then I won't need to do this anyway, so let's just waste the day'. And then... "And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun" We had so much that we could have done, yet it's all gone. We didn't know that all this time was leaving, and then one day we've aged and we can't go back. Did we ever know that this was going to happen? Did anyone ever warn us of this? Perhaps, but we ignored it, and then it became too late. "And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again" We try to go back, yet we don't know that it's too late. We don't like what we've done to ourselves, so we try to return to what we once were (that is, young). "The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death" Now life doesn't seem nearly as long as it used to be. It just seems that soon we're going to move out of our childhood and our teen years, and we'll eventually age. The world around us appears the same... all except for us. "Every year is getting shorter Never seem to find the time Plans that either come to nought Or half a page of scribbled lines" Simple... we wanted to do so much with our lives, yet we can't do that now. We can't even try, because the years are just passing by. "Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way The time is gone The song is over Thought I'd something more to say" Simple again... we despair because of what has happened, but we have to face facts. We've wasted our life, and there's nothing that we can do about it... and thus we enter age. "Home, home again I like to be here when I can When I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire" By far the most haunting part of the song, in my opinion. Thus we've become old, and this is all that we can make of life: "Home, home again, I like to be here when I can". "Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells" I've never understood what this part meant, however. I think it has to do with only being able to watch as others carry on the same mistakes that you did in your youth. Any way you look at it, this song is excellent in every sense of the word. And if we let others listen to this song and digest the message of it... we could live in a better world. |
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