Honestly, the album "The Division Bell" was an album composed by the motivation as a lashing-out of sorts at all of the women of his life, the pain they caused, and his feeling of inadequacy for them. The song "What Do You Want From Me" is a song about Gilmour asking the women in his life "What exactly DO you want from me?" The theme of the lack of communication between himself and past lovers always made him uneasy towards his women, because they didn't really tell him what he could do to please him. Keep in mind that most of the songs were cowritten by his present lover, Polly Simpson. Also, according to Vernon Fitch, world-renown historian of Floydian culture the song is David Gilmour's retort to over-demanding fans, and how they selfishly demand that they kill themselves to please the crowd (in example Gilmour's feelings about going into the rain so that not one fan would be disappointed. The band does love the fans to an extent, but not if the fans expect the whole world out of them. Floyd just wants us, especially Gilmour, to not look at them as gurus, but simple musicians, and just expect that out of them. They have done a lot of things for their fans in the past and they feel that is enough. For more information on the Division Bell album, I'd suggest reading an interview that took place an 1995 issue of Guitar World or look at the interview at
www.pink-floyd.org. Doubting is an easy thing to do, but if there is something you want in life, ask, and your chances for being answered are that much greater.
God bless and shine on,
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