Interesting Pink Floyd Lyrics

[chknltl]

Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Waters) 11:26

Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.
You well heeled big wheel, ha ha charade you are.
And when your hand is on your heart,
You're nearly a good laugh,
Almost a joker,
With your head down in the pig bin,
Saying "Keep on digging."
Pig stain on your fat chin.
What do you hope to find.
When you're down in the pig mine.
You're nearly a laugh,
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry.

Bus stop rat bag, ha ha charade you are.
You fucked up old hag, ha ha charade you are.
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass.
You're nearly a good laugh,
Almost worth a quick grin.
You like the feel of steel,
You're hot stuff with a hatpin,
And good fun with a hand gun.
You're nearly a laugh,
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry.

Hey you, Whitehouse,
Ha ha charade you are.
You house proud town mouse,
Ha ha charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street.
You're nearly a real treat,
All tight lips and cold feet
And do you feel abused?
.....! .....! .....! .....!
You gotta stem the evil tide,
And keep it all on the inside.
Mary you're nearly a treat,
Mary you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry.

[Tab]

1. That's from Animals - most know it.

Now if you want some interesting lyrics (or maybe it's just the song title, I don't even recall if the thing had lyrics), find one of their very old albums - I believe it was a movie soundtrack (it does exist - I have it) with "Seven little dwarves in Penisland".

[chknltl]

3. I saw Pink Floyd just before they released Umma Gumma

(This has utterly NOTHING to do with why I posted the OP but....)
It was to be my first ever concert. The week before I could have seen Spooky Tooth, another band I knew UTTERLY nothing about but this time I consented to go to a concert. One side of town had Chicago playing at the Deutchlandehall and other side of town had Pink Floyd at the Sportspalast. (Yep I was in Germany, Berlin to be exact). My vote was for Chicago, I knew who THEY were and thought that they were OK but Pink Floyd sounded like a gay guy named Floyd. (At 16 I was uninterested in gay guys named Floyd who may or may not have talent musically) Fortunately Chicago was sold out and my friends conned me into seeing Pink Floyd.

They too wound up being sold out, I knew this because someone from the band came out on a balcony with a megaphone overlooking the plaza where there were 9000 or so of us milling around and informed us of this fact. This elicited a groan from the many who did not have tickets, (my best friend included) BUT then he said, "Not To worry, we are letting everyone else in who wants to come watch come watch for free anyway!"

I was absolutely hooked on Pink Floyd early into the show, I had no clue who these guys were but my first ever exposure to UMMA GUMMA was a live one with a light show hardly matched by any other band since that night! They played and played and played-they actually had 4 encores! What a first ever concert huh?

I went out the next day and purchased: "Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn"
I was not even close to being happy with them at that point because this album did not come close to what we had heard live. It was only a short while later that my friend found a copy of newly released Umma Gumma and when we listened to it the band was vindicated in our eyes. (We now had the proof that what we had heard at the show was no drug induced imaginings-besides we needed that album as evidence that we were not wildly exaggerating to our chums about what we had heard at that show!)

I have been an off and on fan for decades now, Astronomy Domine, everything except MONEY* on Dark Side of the Moon and Learning to Fly are among my fave songs by Pink Floyd. *(hate the music from MONEY but love the lyrics, hate the music enough to say I hate that song period!)

I have lost count of the big named concerts I have seen since, hell I even spent a decade working with local bands in Seattle but that show by Pink Floyd back in the summer of '69 or '70, was by far the best show I have ever seen or heard!

I confess to being unfamiliar with the song you refer to: Seven little dwarves in Penisland" but Umma Gumma has "Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together And Grooving With A Pict"

Oh and my OP seems a prophetic commentary by Roger Waters-all things considered, which is why I posted his lyrics to that song.

[O.M.B.inOhio]

5. 7 Dwarves...

From Roger Waters / Ron Geesin's soundtrack from "The Body" in 1969(ish). It's weird and wonderful, like all of Geesin's work, except Atom Heart Mother, which isn't so weird.

BTW, "Whitehouse" in Animals does not refer to the White House in the US, but to Mary Whitehouse, who led a campaign to legislate morality and, in particular, to "clean up" TV. Even though she was British, I can't help imagine her sounding and looking like Sarah Palin.

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6. Ah, yes, "Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together And Grooving With A Pict"

I always liked that one too.

I think I have pretty much anything they published (pre-Wall).

I disliked Pink Floyd from The Wall on. Welcome to the Machine, Animals, Dark Side, etc., and earlier were great, and the phase with Syd Barrett before that was surreal, but when Roger Waters more or less started running the show I started to not like them, and "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking" got played perhaps once. Maybe not even all the way through.

But pre-Wall, nothing better.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Roger Waters (and his pig) endorsed Obama a while back

Pink Floyd's flying pig at Coachella 2008 endorses Obama



From AP:

Roger Waters brought Coachella to a close with an epic two-set performance that included playing all of "Dark Side of the Moon" and unleashing a giant inflated pig into the night sky.

But Waters' biggest prop was an inflatable pig the size of a school bus that emerged while he played a version of "Pigs" from 1977's capitalism critique, "Animals."

The pig, which was led above the crowd from lines held on the ground, displayed the words "Don't be led to the slaughter" and a cartoon of Uncle Sam wielding two bloody cleavers. The other side read "Fear builds walls."

The underside of the pig simply read "Obama" with a checked ballot box alongside.

[chknltl]

4. KEWL! I did not know this. nt

[DS1]

8. and Waters is pretty right-wing!

:bounce:

[Bjorn Against]

9. Roger Waters is no right-winger...

Roger Waters is a lefty all the way. All you need to do to see that is read his lyrics, they are all very anti-war and critical of capitalism. If you don't get the metaphors in his lyrics though just listen to all the statements he has made on political issues, he has been promoting impeachment of Bush for some time now. Seriously if you think Roger Waters is right-wing I would strongly encourage you to pay closer attention to what he is saying.

[DS1]

10. He moved out of England to pay less taxes

however, beyond that, I'd read that he was pretty right-wing economically.

I have read the lyrics, and listened to them countless times, and I didn't want to believe what I was reading :hi:

[Bjorn Against]

12. Do you have a link for that, the only one I have found retracted the story

Roger Waters has always been a leftist on economic issues, he is pretty much a socialist in fact. I could not imagine him moving out of England because of taxes, I tried to google information on that and the only link I could find involving that story had the person who posted the article retract it after it had been challenged. I don't know about the tax story, but I definitely know he is not a right-winger economically. Just look at these lyrics from a song that he wrote just about five years ago when the Iraq war was starting...

Hoover, Blaupunkt, Nissan Jeep
Nike, Addidas, Lacoste and cheaper brands
Cadillac, Amtrak, gasoline, diesel
Our standard of living, could this be a reason
That we would choose to kill the child
That we would choose to kill the child

That is quite a slam on corporations and overconsumption, certainly not something a right-winger would write. And then there is the classic song "Money"

Money
It's a crime
Share it fairly
But don't take a slice of my pie
Money
So they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a raise
It's no surprise that they're giving none away

These words sure don't look like the words of an economic right-winger to me.

[DS1]

7. Great song!

Appropriate through most of the history of man.

[noel711]

11. Roger Waters is a genius....

[gypsylud]

13. amen to that.

to young though. I saw the division bell tour. a truncated floyd. my dream come true was live 8.