| Pink Floyd – Hey You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I was suddenly put in the psychiatric ward a few years ago after my birthday. I felt like I didn't belong there, and as each minute passed i felt lonelier and lonelier. I didn't speak to anybody there except for asking the nurses for another blanket. The way I spent my time there was sitting in front of my room's window listening to the radio. This song came on, and it was as if the song was speaking for me and narrating my thoughts as I watched people walk past the window, unknowing of my prying eyes. But, by the power of my envy that they were out there it brought people to look at the window I was staring at them through. They could feel me. "Hey you out there in the cold Getting lonely getting old Can you feel me? Hey you standing in the aisles With itchy feet and fading smiles Can you feel me?" I learned people's routines from this window and I fell into a pit of despair. But when this song came on I felt enlightened that people out there and around me felt as confined as me. It got me through the time spent there. "Don't give in without a fight" "sitting naked by the phone" there was a phone at the ward for patients to ask their families or friends to visit or just to talk. Throughout the time spent there, I tried multiple times to call my boyfriend but every time I tried nobody would pick up at his house. I would cry everyday after repeating the same routine, I was figuratively naked in front of the patients and nurses; exposed. "No matter how he tried He could not break free" I had multiple escape attempts, but due to the security cameras, sedatives and magnetically locked doors I couldn't do it without being stopped, and I wasn't willing to pay a fine for pulling a fire alarm in a hospital. All the furniture was either fixed to the ground or plastic, so any attempts to escape were futile. I am aware of the concept of The Wall album and I understand what Pink was experiencing, this is just my experience relating to this song. |
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