If I keep doing this series there will be plenty more from this band. I played a tune from their early days a month or two ago. This one's a classic that I still can't get enough of. Here's Comfortably Numb:
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"Comfortably Numb" describes a state of delirium; a feeling of being detached from reality. Many assumed it's about drugs, but that's not so, according to Pink Floyd bass player Roger Waters, who wrote the lyrics and came up with the concept of the album The Wall, where the song appears.
The lyrics describe how Waters felt as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes under different circumstances. He told Mojo magazine (December 2009) that the lines, "When I was a child I had a fever/My hands felt just like two balloons" were autobiographical. He explained: "I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 105 and being delirious. It wasn't like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening. A lot of people think those lines are about masturbation. God knows why."
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As a child I got very high fevers until my tonsils were removed. I had a very vivid dream about trying to bowl with my friends but my hands were like two balloons and I could not fit my fingers in the holes. I was shocked the first time I heard this song. My guess is it's a common feeling when you have a high fever.
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Absolute classic Jerry, love the live versions of this as well.
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