See...how I always saw this song was as a sick or dying man that was in severe pain. The speaker at the beginning is a doctor or medic of some sort. Hense the "I need some information, first/Just the basic facts/Can you show me where it hurts."
The next stanza is, of course, the man in pain speaking. He is reliving a childhood experiance, perhaps the first time he was hurt or sick. At this point he is becoming so engroused in his feelings and the pain that it all just stops hurting. The only thing he can concentrait on is the childhood experiance that he has forgotten but is trying to grasp now. The first time he says comfortably numb means he has lost all sense of reality and is just in his mind, completely lost from the world and engrossed so much into this memory from his past.
Now, the next time the doctor speaks to him, he is giving him a shot, or fixing him in some way. In the line "That'll keep you going through the show" I believe that the "show" is either life, or going with the theme of The Wall album and movie, war.
The last stanza is of course, him recovering. But in a very different way. He still cannot hear the doctor at first, and is still in his memory. Slowly, though, the memory begins to fade and slip away from him. The second time he is "comfortably numb" is either because of the doctors drugs, the fact that he does not want to go on anymore, or a combination of the both.
But other than the doctors drugs...there are no drugs involved in this.
Wow, This is exactly how i felt. I had to go through chemotherapy. The lyrics go hand in hand with the experience. I was in severe pain and anxiety until they infused me with this strong anti anxiety and anti nasea medicine while getting the chemo. I felt it instantly and after that I was "comfortably numb." This song brings me to tears.
Wow, This is exactly how i felt. I had to go through chemotherapy. The lyrics go hand in hand with the experience. I was in severe pain and anxiety until they infused me with this strong anti anxiety and anti nasea medicine while getting the chemo. I felt it instantly and after that I was "comfortably numb." This song brings me to tears.
This song is about a drug. It is an opiate commonly used as a powerful anesthetic and it is called heroin. The lyrics are framed around two people, conceivably band mates, getting high with one another to ease the stress of their vocation.
This song is about a drug. It is an opiate commonly used as a powerful anesthetic and it is called heroin. The lyrics are framed around two people, conceivably band mates, getting high with one another to ease the stress of their vocation.
"That'll keep you going through the show ".
"That'll keep you going through the show ".
This lyric refers to the narrator getting high in order to overcome any potential nerves he may have in performing on stage.
This lyric refers to the narrator getting high in order to overcome any potential nerves he may have in performing on stage.
"But other than the doctors drugs..."
"But other than the doctors drugs..."
Morphine, a "doctors drug", is essentially the same narcotic as heroin.
Morphine, a "doctors drug", is essentially the same narcotic as heroin.
If you want to listen to a song that foils "Comfortably Numb", take a listen to The Smashing Pumpkin's "Hummer".
See...how I always saw this song was as a sick or dying man that was in severe pain. The speaker at the beginning is a doctor or medic of some sort. Hense the "I need some information, first/Just the basic facts/Can you show me where it hurts."
The next stanza is, of course, the man in pain speaking. He is reliving a childhood experiance, perhaps the first time he was hurt or sick. At this point he is becoming so engroused in his feelings and the pain that it all just stops hurting. The only thing he can concentrait on is the childhood experiance that he has forgotten but is trying to grasp now. The first time he says comfortably numb means he has lost all sense of reality and is just in his mind, completely lost from the world and engrossed so much into this memory from his past.
Now, the next time the doctor speaks to him, he is giving him a shot, or fixing him in some way. In the line "That'll keep you going through the show" I believe that the "show" is either life, or going with the theme of The Wall album and movie, war.
The last stanza is of course, him recovering. But in a very different way. He still cannot hear the doctor at first, and is still in his memory. Slowly, though, the memory begins to fade and slip away from him. The second time he is "comfortably numb" is either because of the doctors drugs, the fact that he does not want to go on anymore, or a combination of the both.
But other than the doctors drugs...there are no drugs involved in this.
Wow, This is exactly how i felt. I had to go through chemotherapy. The lyrics go hand in hand with the experience. I was in severe pain and anxiety until they infused me with this strong anti anxiety and anti nasea medicine while getting the chemo. I felt it instantly and after that I was "comfortably numb." This song brings me to tears.
Wow, This is exactly how i felt. I had to go through chemotherapy. The lyrics go hand in hand with the experience. I was in severe pain and anxiety until they infused me with this strong anti anxiety and anti nasea medicine while getting the chemo. I felt it instantly and after that I was "comfortably numb." This song brings me to tears.
This song is about a drug. It is an opiate commonly used as a powerful anesthetic and it is called heroin. The lyrics are framed around two people, conceivably band mates, getting high with one another to ease the stress of their vocation.
This song is about a drug. It is an opiate commonly used as a powerful anesthetic and it is called heroin. The lyrics are framed around two people, conceivably band mates, getting high with one another to ease the stress of their vocation.
"That'll keep you going through the show ".
"That'll keep you going through the show ".
This lyric refers to the narrator getting high in order to overcome any potential nerves he may have in performing on stage.
This lyric refers to the narrator getting high in order to overcome any potential nerves he may have in performing on stage.
"But other than the doctors drugs..."
"But other than the doctors drugs..."
Morphine, a "doctors drug", is essentially the same narcotic as heroin.
Morphine, a "doctors drug", is essentially the same narcotic as heroin.
If you want to listen to a song that foils "Comfortably Numb", take a listen to The Smashing Pumpkin's "Hummer".