Hmmm...a tricky question perhaps.

Really, the original lyrics should give you all the information you need.

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I'll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move,
But I can't hear what you're saying.

When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb....

Perhaps it's about an artist's realisation that with all the fame and fortune that comes with Rock stardom, he/she must also accept grave losses (relationships, privacy, intimacy with the audience, artistic freedom, etc.) along the way.

Whether able to accept these losses or not, the feeling that remains is one of numbness. A comfortable (lots of lovely money to chase away the blues - groupies, drugs) numbness.

That's my take on it anyway, but what do I know?

Byron

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