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The beautiful and poignant lyrics in the fourth verse hint at the idea that there was a moment, buried in the past, when Pink/Roger almost grasped the true meaning of things - that a Big Picture which made sense brushed at the edge of his awareness, like a half-forgotten haunting melody or the fluttering of a moth's wings. They have the psychedelic feel of the thoughts of a man teetering on the brink of madness, tortured by the feeling that none of the people around him, past and present, really understand his true nature. The latter are some of Roger's most interesting lyrics. The second and fourth verses, sung by Dave, are the voice/thoughts of Pink. The first and third verses, sung by Roger, represent the voice of the doctor attempting to bring Pink back to reality. just stood there, tripping out of his mind.'' Roger and I hoofed him onto the stage, and en route put his guitar around his neck, and stood him in front of the vocal mike. He couldn't speak he was absolutely catatonic. As the milling audience grew restless, the stage manager kept knocking with his increasingly urgent summons: 'Time to go! Time to go!' 'And we're trying to get Syd up,' June recalls, 'and get him together to go and play. 'It's June! Look at me!' His blank stare registered not a flicker of recognition. She finally located him in a dressing room, 'absolutely gaga, just totally switched off, sitting rigid like a stone.' She tried to shake him out of his trance while the other Floyds changed into their stage gear - which was unnecessary in Barrett's case, because he was already so flamboyantly attired. 'As the Floyd's big moment approached, June Bolan remembers, Barrett was nowhere to be seen. Pink Floyd was the second-billed act at the International Love-In concert event, midsummer 1967. The story behind it is excerpted below from Nicholas Schaffner's book. The voice of the stage manager saying 'Time to go!' as he insistently knocks on the door is drawn from another real-life experience - that of Syd Barrett. Roger: 'After Bring the Boys Back Home there is a short piece where a tape loop is used: the teacher's voice is heard again and you can feel the groupie saying 'are you feeling okay' and there's the operator saying, er, 'there's a man answering' and there's a new voice introduced at that point and there's somebody knocking on the door saying 'come on, it's time to go,' right, so the idea is that they are coming to take him to the show because he's got to go and perform that night, and they come into the room and they realize something is wrong, and they actually physically bring the doctor in.' The echo of voices from the past swirl through Pink's struggling awareness, represented by a tape loop used just before the song begins. When the crew discovers that he has totally withdrawn and doesn't seem to respond to any stimuli, a doctor is called in to inject Pink with a drug which gives some semblance of awareness - though the awareness is primarily of his own twisted version of reality, an hallucinatory scenario which ensues on side four. At this point in the narrative of the character Pink, the time has come when he is supposed to go on stage to do his show of the evening. I can't explain, you would not understandДЄnd so it goes, the song that many consider the greatest Floyd ever, an almost perfect distillation of the style of progressive rock that they made famous: a melding of Dave's flowing guitar style and Roger's brilliantly insightful lyrics into a true musical apex. Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying

Pink floyd the wall album comfortably numb what album