Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb

@WhiteMagic His father didn't die before he was born, there is a photo of him with both his parents and his older brother when they were very young. His mother didn't abandon h when he was 6 either.
The song is based on Syd, it can't be denied. The band capitalized on Syd's demise, whichever way you look at it. OK they were only kids, their understanding of what was happening was limited & by that time they were well on the way to being one of the biggest bands of all time.
But Syd comes into all of the writing in one way or another.
There are just too many similarities... not even similarities, events as they actually happened. Roger has said in an interview that he walked in and seen the cigarette burnt down into Syd's fingers.
Syd shaved his hair and eyebrows, its all about him, with some added events/emotions from Roger's life.
They wrote and wrote about Syd and made a hell of a lot of money in the process.
Syd was unwell but he knew what was going down, that's clear in the lyrics to jugband blues. Syd hated the in authenticity of it all, how his art was becoming just business & he couldn't live like a performing monkey, he stayed true to himself. He knew they wanted him well to keep on delivering.
Maybe Roger did need medical attention before a gig, and the stark realisation that they wanted him to just get through the show must have brought it home to him how Syd must have felt.
As well as this, they were to discover that all the success and fame in the world does not equal happiness.
So it's an amalgamation of experiences and emotions of Syd and Roger, but based on Syd. It can't be denied, it all points to that.
As they have got older and wiser they have recognised the callousness involved in the treatment of Syd before and as he left the band. I am not judging them as callous, those are David Gilmours words, and as I've said they were just kids on the road to living the dream. But all said and done, Syd's demise was capitalized on in a big way.
There's no denying it, it's there in the lyrics, in the film, everything.
They may have said it was 'general'_but all artists work is some form of expression of himself. And this was their experience.
Maybe it helped them process their grief at losing their friend and his amazing talent that gave birth to Pink Floyd.
And what came of it was nothing short of phenomenal.
But it's Syd through and through, and other things added.
R.I.P Syd..Legend

@WhiteMagic I only just realised your post is from so long ago!! I hope you're still around to read my reply, agree or disagree. Let's face it, none of us know 10000% do we.
My last post seems to be hanging in thin air somewhere in cyberspace & I cba going through 550 posts!!
17 years!! Good Lord!! Lol
Comfortably Numb...still a tune, always will be, bet you're still listening!
You forgot you ever wrote this right?
:)

@WhiteMagic spot on mate ,