"And I am not frightened of dying any time will do
I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it you've gotta go sometime."
"If you can hear this whispering you are dying."
"I never said I was frightened of dying."

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    Hey, you guys, go out and buy the Darkside of the Moon DVD.. they probably have it at like WalMart or something... It just has interviews with the members of Pink Floyd and a couple of their sound engineers and some random people and they talk about how they came up with each song and what they mean and what they did behind the scenes stuff... when it gets to "Great Gig In The Sky" they say that they hadn't originally thought of her, but their engineer guy was working with Clare with something else and mentioned having her do it. So they had her listen to the music ONCE, told her to think of death, misery and pain and just let it out, and she did, she comes out all embarassed and says "I'm sorry, that was horrible" But PInk Floyd loves it, they do try other takes... numerous takes... with words and without, but it wasn't as good as the first cut that they did.. straight from Roger Waters mouth. Buy the DVD, it's really good.

    kdiddy33on March 01, 2006   Link

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