| Michael Martin Murphey – Wildfire Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The explaination of the woman is quite simple. She is a more romantic Grim Reaper. She is probably some kind of folklore legend. She was a settler that died one winter and her horse was so grief stricken that it ran away a died also. Now both her and her horse are charged with taking dead settlers' spirits to the other side. With that being said, the song lays out like so. First verse he describes what he is waiting for. Second verse describes how what he is waiting for came to be. Third verse he describes how he got into the situation he is in to be waiting for the "Spectre of Death". |
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| Pink Floyd – Goodbye Cruel World Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Plausible, but the album doesn't end after this song. | |
| Pink Floyd – Waiting for the Worms Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I would say most of your post is spot on. Only thing I would like you to consider is the role of the "worms". In a "normal" persons life there are positive role models (people we aspire to be like or at least come close to being like) and people who are negative role models ( people we despise and do not want to be like). I believe the worms are those negative role models. In a world exposed to them, we "right" ourselves by aspiring not to become them. However, in Pink's new world behind the wall, he is not exposed to them. Without negative role model to "hate", I think he starts to become one of them (in his mind). No Ying and Yang, no Order and Chaos. Witout both you become one. In this case, Pink is turning into a worm. |
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| Pink Floyd – Goodbye Cruel World Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Emotional Suicide | |
| Pink Floyd – The Hero's Return Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The song is about the teacher from the wall. Many of the songs on The Final Cut were songs left off of The Wall. This one and The Gunners Dream both were songs that were told from PoV of characters that were not central to The Wall's story. People speculate thats why they were left off. | |
| Pink Floyd – Run Like Hell Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Sorry Comfortably Numb and Hey You didn't do anything for you. | |
| Pink Floyd – The Gunner's Dream Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The first thing to know about this song and many of the songs off The Final Cut album is that they were actually written for The Wall album. I will preface my comment by adding that the song as a whole is about dreams in general shattered by the death. First Stanza: Floating down Through the clouds Memories come rushing up to meet me now But in the space between the heavens And in the corner of some foreign field I had a dream I had a dream In the movie, the scene dipicting Pink's Father's death is that of a Stuka Dive Bomber dropping a bomb on the installation he was using the field phone in. At the last moment Pink's father sees the diving plane. (Floating down through the clouds) Pink's father sees the diving plane. (Memories come rushing up to meet me now) Life flashing before his eyes. (But in the space between the heavens and in the corner of some foreign field I had a dream I had a dream) In the moment between the plane dropping it's bomb and the bombing hitting the installation, Pink's father realizes that his fighting for "the dream" is over. Stanza 2: Goodbye Max Goodbye Ma After the service When you're walking slowly to the car And the silver in her hair shines in the cold november air You hear the tolling bell And touch the silk in your lapel And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band You take her frail hand And hold on to the dream I take some liberties here: (Goodbye Max Goodbye Ma) Pink's Father is saying goodbye to Pink's mom (I believe here name is Maxine) and his own mother. Then he starts to talk directly to Pink. (After the service When you're walking slowly to the car And the silver in her hair shines in the cold november air You hear the tolling bell And touch the silk in your lapel And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band You take her frail hand And hold on to the dream) He's telling Pink to comfort his mom and bravely carry on. Stanza 3: A place to stay [Bloke:] "Oi! A real one..." Enough to eat Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street Where you can speak out loud About your doubts and fears And what's more No-one ever disappears You never hear their standard issue Kicking in your door You can relax on both sides of the tracks And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control And everyone has recourse to the law And no-one kills the children anymore No-one kills the children anymore This is just a description of "the dream" Pink's Father thought he was fighting for. Stanza 4: The last stanza i thing is the coolest. It comes from two different narrators. The first is from an adult Pink. (Night after night Going round and round my brain His dream is driving me insane) Describing the pain and anguish of a life growing up trying to be the man his Father wanted him to be. In the corner of some foreign field The gunner sleeps tonight What's done is done We cannot just write off his final scene Take heed of the dream Take heed No descript narrator taking us back to scene of Pink's Father's death and reminding us that even if something should happen, we should never stop striving for "the dream"! |
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