i think this song is waters mocking gilmours attitude during and after the filming of "the wall"
the fights were legendary between these two and this song is "allowing" gilmour to have his "type" of sound on the record, also this is the only track which features gilmour on vocals. that was not by accident.... waters intended it to be musically completely different from every other track.
i believe that elements of "the final cuts" are confessions from waters to gilmour and the world in general about why they can't see eye to eye or work together any more.
when gilmour sings "not now john we've got to get back to the film show.... hollywood...etc" waters wrote those lyrics with the intent of having gilmour sing his own indictment. waters felt that the bands music was being pushed towards commercialism, and summarily left after recording this album.
waters moved on to make more intelligent music, and gilmour pressed on under the pf crown, imho, making music that lacked all the substance that waters brought to it.
ultimately this album is partially a coded "goodbye" from waters to pink floyd, and ultimately this track is a large FUCK YOU to David Gilmour, who just wanted to make corporate dick suck music to exploit the lsd crowd some more.
i think this song is waters mocking gilmours attitude during and after the filming of "the wall"
the fights were legendary between these two and this song is "allowing" gilmour to have his "type" of sound on the record, also this is the only track which features gilmour on vocals. that was not by accident.... waters intended it to be musically completely different from every other track.
i believe that elements of "the final cuts" are confessions from waters to gilmour and the world in general about why they can't see eye to eye or work together any more.
when gilmour sings "not now john we've got to get back to the film show.... hollywood...etc" waters wrote those lyrics with the intent of having gilmour sing his own indictment. waters felt that the bands music was being pushed towards commercialism, and summarily left after recording this album.
waters moved on to make more intelligent music, and gilmour pressed on under the pf crown, imho, making music that lacked all the substance that waters brought to it.
ultimately this album is partially a coded "goodbye" from waters to pink floyd, and ultimately this track is a large FUCK YOU to David Gilmour, who just wanted to make corporate dick suck music to exploit the lsd crowd some more.