Waters best metaphor?

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moonwall wrote:Don't know why, but love this:

Little by little the night turns around.
Counting the leaves which tremble and turn.
Lotus's lean on each other in union.
Over the hills where a swallow is resting.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine.
Morning to birth is born into shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Who is the man who arrives at the wall?
Making the shape of his questions at asking.
Thinking the sun will fall in the evening.
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.


Metaphor or not? A linguistic question, but I like it anyway :)
don't think it's a metaphor, looks like a story about the arrival of night. I remember someone wrote that "setting controls..." is about some god's son crashed into the Sun, but then what are the lyrics in whole about!?... Anyway, I think I know why do you like it :) - notice what you feel when listening to it
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The Wall as a metaphor for alienation?

Dogs as a metaphor for...

Sheep as a metaphor for...
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So STCFTHOTS should be an allusion to the legend of Icaros. I'm not so sure about that :?
I found an intereting site "Allusions to Classical Chinese Poetry in Pink Floyd" at http://www.cjvlang.com/Pfloyd/index.html.
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nosaj wrote:The Wall as a metaphor for alienation?

Dogs as a metaphor for...

Sheep as a metaphor for...
1. yes, it is
2. last two are kinds of people. Listen to/read the lyrics, and you'll get the picture ;)
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News hound sniffs the air
When Jessica Hahn goes down
He latches on to that symbol
Of detachment
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl

The only question remaining, who was amused to death?
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And here is another beautiful Roger Waters metaphor

Day after day
love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
And night
after night
We pretend it's all right
But I have grown older
And you have grown colder
And Nothing is very much fun anymore.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel, cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum.
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Post by Paranoid Ace »

Deperation is the English way. Would it be considered a metaphore? ._.
Anyways, what do you think about the poem about books that Roger says in the Documentary that comes with the 1999 The Wall Movie DVD?
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moom wrote:
nosaj wrote:The Wall as a metaphor for alienation?

Dogs as a metaphor for...

Sheep as a metaphor for...
1. yes, it is
2. last two are kinds of people. Listen to/read the lyrics, and you'll get the picture ;)
Just read Animal Farm (and 1984 cause it just rules).
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jambo wrote:
moom wrote: 1. yes, it is
2. last two are kinds of people. Listen to/read the lyrics, and you'll get the picture ;)
Just read Animal Farm (and 1984 cause it just rules).
I strongly recommend these, too. And some other Orwell's novels are interesting, though they're in another style and a bit other thigns
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PFralst wrote:And here is another beautiful Roger Waters metaphor

Day after day
love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
And night
after night
We pretend it's all right
But I have grown older
And you have grown colder
And Nothing is very much fun anymore.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel, cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum.
No metaphors there, just similes.
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"God wants goodness, god wants light, God wants mahem, God wants a clean fight"

Great
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momentaryhawking wrote:"God wants goodness, god wants light, God wants mahem, God wants a clean fight"

Great
so true
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momentaryhawking wrote:"God wants goodness, god wants light, God wants mahem, God wants a clean fight"

Great
I was gonna say that ....
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saucerfulofmeddle wrote:
PFralst wrote:And here is another beautiful Roger Waters metaphor

Day after day
love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
And night
after night
We pretend it's all right
But I have grown older
And you have grown colder
And Nothing is very much fun anymore.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel, cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum.
No metaphors there, just similes.
I will call it a borderline case, cause it?s 'picture' of life.
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And they gave him command of a nuclear submarine
and sent him back in search of The Garden of Eden


i love those lines