Comfortably Numb

ok this song is part of the album the wall to fully understand this song u first must understand the album and watch the movie it helps. in the movie pink sits locked in a hotel room, somewher in La. too many shows to much dope, too much applause: a burned out case. on the tv, an all too familiar war film flickers on the screen. we shuffle time and place, reality and nightmare as we venture into pink's painful memories, each one a "brick" in the waill he has gradually built around his feelings. Slowly he withdraws from the real world and slips further into his nightmare as he imagines himself as an unfeeling demagogue, for whom all that is left is the demonstration of power over his unthinking audience, the culmination of the odious excess of his own world and the world around him. his internal self trial follows as the witnesses of his past life, the very people who have contributed to the building of the wall, come forward to testify against him.

thats the story of the wall.

comfortably numb is a song about how pink has finally burned out he can no longer tell the real world from the one he has created. his wall is built and he can no longer make it out. He has lived in pain and anguish for so long that he has finally given into the pain and the drugs. He now sits in his room realizing the only people that care anymore are the people only trying to make money off him like his manager. Instead of getting ready for his shows he now just lets them drug him up get him dressed and get him going hoping the drugs last long enough for him to get on stage perfom then crash.

while most of the artists from pink floyd did experiment with many drugs this song is mainly about syd barret and how he quit the band early on when things started getting good it wasnt what he wanted and soon gave up quit the band.