A New Machine (Part 1)

I respect every opinion and interpretation of music. It's the majesty of it after all, that everyone can find something that's meaninful for their own. So I hope you enjoy mine.

I believe, it's the human soul (whatever you understand by that) speaking to yourself and questioning it's existance. I've been there, sometimes while in deep meditation. Your mind/soul, speaking to yourself, and wondering about how your point of view is the only one you have really known for sure: "I have always been here, I have always looked out from behind this eyes". It "feels more than a lifetime" because you existance is your whole eternity, you haven't experienced what happend before your moment, so your whole life seems your relative forever.

Also, wondering about existance, many times we wonder what will happen after life, and get anxious to find it out: "Sometimes I get tired of the waiting" And by "being in here", means -the body "we" are bound to-.

Then it asks YOU, the listener, If the same happens to you, and then comforts you by reminding that "Nobody lives forever"

But after a long instrumental part, that represents reasoning, IMO, the soul realizes "It's only a lifetime" we have to wait. If theres something granted in life it's that it will end someday, and so, I guess, I'll find out what all this living was about.

You can say the singing is awful, or that the song has no rhythm, whatever... I think this is much more than a simple song. The singing seems like a desperate call to the universe, and a great "Momentary Lapse Of Reason" of Gilmour realizing his own existance.

The machine refers to life. the same machine as in the song welcome to the machine (the machine being the machine that pumps it's product -humans- out in a static manner) in this song the speaker is begining to look out of this new machine....wondering what it's like on the outside (no body lives forever, no body lives forever)

Completely disagree with LouDog. One of their best. Shows how much Roger kept the other members great ability under tight wraps.

It's about that part of yourself that you've always suppressed to fit in with everybody else.

Its kinda odd that the machine talks about it has always been there, but then it says nobody lives forever. I wonder if they are including themself or just the human race?

Whenever Pink Floyd talks about any kind of machine, i get the sense that he's refrerring to the machine that controls "buisness," and in most cases with Pink Floyd, the part that's controlling music. If you read the song in terms that he's "within the machine of music," it makes a lot of sense.

The drudgery of the modern world is giving rise to 'A New Machine'- the stupefied human made such by his rigid one-dimensional life.He can no longer remember the beginning or see the end near in sight.Life is a drag and the only consolation is that 'nobody lives forever' Brilliant philosophy.

The "I have always been here" doesn't necessarily mean living forever. It means "I have always been in this body and I don't know anything outside of what I see and think."

I always found another meaning to this and most of the stuff on AMLOR. I thought it was a cry for help to Roger. 'The Machine' is Pink Floyd, that entity which has skipped eath twice and is still dormant; and here The Machine is calling for Roger to rejoin them and that they will always be there waiting for him; 'Sometimes I get tired of the waiting' and then a further message to tell him to hurry up; 'Nobody lives forever'. Pink Floyd work as a machine and at the moment they are a new kind of machine without Roger. Part 2 is just an extension; another piece of advice for Roger 'it's only a lifetime'.

It sounds to me like it's about Syd Barrett.