High Hopes: reference to Roger?

It's Encumbered forever.... Could be they like taking shots at one another in their songs. Maybe it's a British thing. Or it's Vanity, to get a punch at the others, so to speak..

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Well, Polly wrote it and I think its just a general comment. Though she did write a verse about Roger in one of the other songs from DB

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the album is full of ambiguous lines, which could be taken as pot shots at roger, altho i rly dont know whether they are intended. i wud probably say they aren't.

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And if you're taking your girlfriend out tonight,
You better park the car well out of sight.
'Cause if they catch you in the back seat,
Trying to pick her lock,
They're gonna send you back to Mother,
In a cardboard box.

Well Polly said the following verse from poles apart is about Roger, with the 1st verse about Syd:

"Hey you... did you ever realise what you'd become
And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes"

But I don't think she said anyhting about other lines from TDB.

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I think they're talking about themselves. All of them.

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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." Tom Waits

Yeah maybe...
But I tought about Roger because he was the hungry still unsatisfied, expecially when he wanted to turn the group name in "Roger Waters and the Pink Floyd"

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"You lock the door and throw away the key
there's someone in my head but it's not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"

Hey guys, that's what makes TDB a level above AMLOR, it contains loads more ambiguity, thanks largely to one P.S. Fans often forget about the later period, but no, that was quite an album. Not only lyrically alluding but musically as well. If this is their last (God forbid), not a bad note to end on. Sorry about the wayward path original poster.

That sounds nearly like Derek and The Dominoes, Billy Savage and The Desperados, X and The Mysterians and some other funny rock'n'roll band names I've seen.

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In the womb, the baby thinks that it's the universe. And when the baby is born, there is a glimmer of light.
I was there, but now I am here. So there are two things - me and the universe. The universe is there for me.
Then what happens? Other people. But the universe is there for you. Now tell me what happened in the glade.
I did something to myself. Like entertainment, like music, like a daydream. There was nothing there and I saw something.
I saw his head on the bonnet of the car. You can say what you like but I saw the bird of paradise spread its wings.
DO YOU PLAY BRIDGE?

David Gilmour was asked in an interview right after the release of The Division Bell whether lines like: "Do You Want My Blood? Do You Want My Tears? What Do You Want?" from What Do You Want From Me? and "So I open my door to my enemies. And ask 'Can we wipe the slate clean' But they tell me to 'Please go f**k myself'" from Lost for Words were about Roger. And his response was something like (and I'm paraphrasing) "Well if you think it's about Roger. Then just go ahead and run with it. But all I can say is: At the time it had nothing to do with Roger"

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...together as one and maybe get the job done instead of blaming yesterday

To me just about everything on the album is about Roger.

Yes, Dave denies it.

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Taking away from you for the greater good.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".-- Winston Churchill

"Socialism is a philosophy which conspirators exploit, but in which only the naive believe." -- Gary Allen

Even the seagulls on Marooned?

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...then the piano lid comes down
And breaks his ****ing fingers...

It's a miracle.

The entire album is a thinly veiled account of their relationship with Roger.

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I have always been here.
I have always looked out from behind these eyes.

Yes, I believe the album is definatly sprinkled with references and thoughts on RW, but I don't think it's the main focus. I believe the album is more about communication, and what happens when that communication breaks down (just like the whole RW issue...). I think "Poles Apart" "Lost For Words" are the ones that focus mostly on Roger...the other's, like "High Hopes", has a line or two.

BTW...in my opinion, "High Hopes" is about the "ol' days," how things used to be, and how they were better. This doesn't solely refer to the youth of Pink Floyd, but to the "ol' times" of anyone. This is why TDB is such a good album...it means different things to different people.

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High Hopes was a return to David's childhood, as was Fat Old Sun.

Nothing more, nothing less

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