Cymbaline meaning

Cymbaline is one of my favourite songs, Dave's voice here is more than beautiful... but I haven't been able to get its meaning... could anyone share with me their interpretation?

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... and the pink queen sat and smiled at the cat who smiled back...

it's about a nightmare, but wi wouldn't know what the word cymbaline means i have never heard of it. perhaps someone else knows

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Disneyland can wait

Hmmm...

A nightmare's good, but it may be a musical pun and also a nod to William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, a twisted tale of a King of Britons in Roman times, bereft of two sons by kidnap, left with a disobedient (in marriage) daughter and a suspect new Queen.

Posthumous' words <link> in Act 5, Scene 3 seem to be the closest in feel to the import of the song, but the link is tenuous at best.

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Count me in on the journey, don't expect me to stay.

Rog has admitted he wrote it after waking from one particularly disturbing dream.

Byron's explanation of the title is stretching things, but I see nothing else to explain it.

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stchrissie is not me.

Like a HUGE rubber band, but I DID add...the link is tenuous at best..

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Count me in on the journey, don't expect me to stay.

The song also deals with the pressures of becoming famous.

Perhaps 'Cymbaline' is the first word that came to Rog's head when he needed a word to rhyme with 'high time'?

A fine piece of work, love the chorus. Should have been on The Best of Floyd IMO.

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You're nearly a laugh but you're really a cry...

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think cymbaline may have something to do with drugs or sleep. Because he does say "high time" and also "please wake me", so I dunno. Remember, More is the soundtrack to a French hippie movie made in '69, so a drug reference wouldn't be uncommon.

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Please.

And More is an anti-drug film. The protagonist Stefan (based on the life of a friend of a friend of the director, Barbet Schroeder) dies in an Ibiza back alley of a heroin overdose.

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I do not have to seek you out, I read you day and night
And drink and bathe and share my coat
And droplets spray in rainbows from that distant age
And we will never taste the final drop
Nor turn the final page

Exactly! It is a movie referencing drugs.

But as far as what cymbaline means.... who the hell knows?

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Thank You

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MORE is heinously underrated. This and Nile Song are my favourites. But that wasn't on topic at all. I apologise.

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I'd always thought Clive was a bit odd, but when I found him hanging from a noose from the ceiling, I stopped talking to him....

I'm Satan, and you're a fool because you're buggering up your turntable.

You're welcome

I was being a tad combatative last night, I apologize too.

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I do not have to seek you out, I read you day and night
And drink and bathe and share my coat
And droplets spray in rainbows from that distant age
And we will never taste the final drop
Nor turn the final page

Hey Botley, its okay.but i could feel the tension on my side of the computer, too. Oh well, we're all here for the same reason---->to talk about Floyd, man.

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Not sure what to say

Never again will I consume alcohol and visit this forum.

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I do not have to seek you out, I read you day and night
And drink and bathe and share my coat
And droplets spray in rainbows from that distant age
And we will never taste the final drop
Nor turn the final page