pink floyd the wall film

"When The Tigers Broke Free"

It was just before dawn
One miserable morning in black 'forty four.
When the forward commander
Was told to sit tight
When he asked that his men be withdrawn.
And the Generals gave thanks
As the other ranks held back
The enemy tanks for a while.
And the Anzio bridgehead
Was held for the price
Of a few hundred ordinary lives.

And kind old King George
Sent Mother a note
When he heard that father was gone.
It was, I recall,
In the form of a scroll,
With gold leaf and all.
And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed
With his own rubber stamp.

It was dark all around.
There was frost in the ground
When the tigers broke free.
And no one survived
From the Royal Fusiliers Company C.
They were all left behind,
Most of them dead,
The rest of them dying.
And that's how the High Command
Took my daddy from me.


"What Shall We Do Now"

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
contract diseases?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall.

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"I like to think that oysters transcend national barriers"
"Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend, we were all equal in the end"
"...So much behind us...still far to go...still far to go..."
April 5, 2006 was amazing

Being annoyingly pedantic, the first four lines, "What shall we use... through ....more applause?" is "Empty Spaces".

What Shall we do now? starts with "Shall we buy....."

Hey, if I hadn't said something, Botley would have.

EDIT: correct spelling error.

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Taking away from you for the greater good.

"Thus, every communist should become an active participant in this electoral upsurge, if he or she hasn’t already done so. The avenues are many and the possibilities are nearly limitless." -- Sam Webb, chairman, Communist Party USA (speaking of Obama / Clinton)

Wait a minute...there's a Wall FILM???

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One eyed, one horned

'Pedantic' has a 't'.

How's that?

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And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time,
To that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry, and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how....

You're right again, fixx-man. And possibly as pedanTic as I.

No, wait. I'm more pendantic, I just went back and needlessly corrected the spelling error.

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Taking away from you for the greater good.

"Thus, every communist should become an active participant in this electoral upsurge, if he or she hasn’t already done so. The avenues are many and the possibilities are nearly limitless." -- Sam Webb, chairman, Communist Party USA (speaking of Obama / Clinton)

Youse guys are too much!

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"David Gilmour can do more with one note than most guitarists can do with the whole fretboard."

Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)

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And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time,
To that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry, and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how....

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"The sound of music in my ears"

“The great error of earlier ethics is that it conceived itself as concerned only with the relations of man to man." - Albert Schweitzer

Wow...... Maybe you aughta look into Pink Floyd a little more, Two-Headed Boy.

On the other note, I just happened to pick me up a copy of The Wall movie, just a couple weeks ago. Along with Ummagumma, and Obscured By Clouds.

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Alone in the clouds all blue. Lying on an eiderdown. Yippee! You can't see me! But I can you... Lazing in the foggy dew. Sitting on a unicorn. No fear! You can't hear me! But I can you... Watching buttercups cup the light. Sleeping on a dandelion. Too much! I won't touch you! But then I might... Sweeping through the starlit skies. Traveling by telephone. Hey ho! Here we go! Ever so high...

Between his myriad aliases, Two-Headed Boy has more posts on this messageboard than almost anyone.

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what do you teach your children about me?
what do you teach your little children about me?
pimp, thug, bling drug lord of the undergrounded kings
how can you be so sure i won't call down the rain?
what do you teach your little children about me?
you point your gun, wait, hide and run. i see it plain

No!
So, does he playing with us?

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"The sound of music in my ears"

“The great error of earlier ethics is that it conceived itself as concerned only with the relations of man to man." - Albert Schweitzer

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Alone in the clouds all blue. Lying on an eiderdown. Yippee! You can't see me! But I can you... Lazing in the foggy dew. Sitting on a unicorn. No fear! You can't hear me! But I can you... Watching buttercups cup the light. Sleeping on a dandelion. Too much! I won't touch you! But then I might... Sweeping through the starlit skies. Traveling by telephone. Hey ho! Here we go! Ever so high...

I was only being sarcastic, you see.

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One eyed, one horned

Pink Floyd The Wall movie rocks! What's your people's fav parts? Mine is when Young Lust plays.

I watched it every night, for a week, when I first bought it.

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Alone in the clouds all blue. Lying on an eiderdown. Yippee! You can't see me! But I can you... Lazing in the foggy dew. Sitting on a unicorn. No fear! You can't hear me! But I can you... Watching buttercups cup the light. Sleeping on a dandelion. Too much! I won't touch you! But then I might... Sweeping through the starlit skies. Traveling by telephone. Hey ho! Here we go! Ever so high...