| Re: The Final Cut (song) Hey Druen, dont worry-your English is just fine. Certainly better than my Danish!!! Anyway, mabey I can shed some light..... You must first realize that Waters uses many metaphors and analogies in his lyrics. Indeed, The Wall is full of them. If you have seen the film you will notice that he compares the charging soldiers with "charging" fans, the chambermaid trying to enter his hotel room with "fans" trying to enter the venue, both a "disturbance" to him. In the animated sequences his mothers protective arms turning into "walls" which isolate him from the outside world etc etc.... As regards The Final Cut, I believe that after spending most of the album emphasizing with what his father and other soldiers went through during WWII, he is now taking stock of his lot in life and again making comparisons with his fathers experiences with those of his own...."The minefield in the drive" is the driveway leading to his house. The "Dogs" "Cold electronic eye" "The shotgun in the hall" are all references to his rocky marriage with his then wife Caroline. Basically he sees his marriage as a "Battlefield" The phrase ".....to the hole in the ground where I hide" is a reference to the refuge his father took while hiding from the enemy. This can be directly linked to the word "Priest-hole" which was a small room or place in English houses designed to hide Roman Catholic Priests during the reformation from religious pursecutors. A place he obviously took "refuge" from the "pursecution" of his wife. Later in the song he relates the innocence of his Fathers youth to those of his own "...... Making love to girls in magazines" The War taking away his Fathers, his wife taking away his own. "Fish eye lens" (at the begining of the song) refers to a camera, "Final cut" (at the end of the song refers to the last scene filmed in a movie before it goes off to production. So perhaps he is connecting the filming of WWII for the masses, with the media speculation surrounding his marriage ,career, personal life etc... and connecting the word "Cut" as a metaphor for sucide as was contempalted by both the soldier and the man before the "phone rang"....
Hope this is of some help!
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