"Comfortably Numb" Body Count cover feat. D. Gilmour!

[Jimi Dean Barrett]

"And because it wasn't street enough, I should get Ice-T or one of those people..." -Roger Waters, 1992.

Fast forward to 2024! Ice-T's Metal band Body Count have done a cover version! Ice-T has written new lyrics! David Gilmour isn't sampled... He's actually playing lead guitar on the track!



Lyrics:

How did i get here?
Sitting on this spinning sphere
When will I leave here
We know death is always near
I try to understand but answers don't come easily
Friends always deceiving me
Is this what life's supposed to be?
Human animals
We roam the earth in search of blood
Hope for humanity?
I don't think there ever was
We're in perpetual war, and that's the only law
Can I change it? I doubt it
So I write songs about it
I was young once but now I've grown old
Right in front of your еyes you've seen my life unfold
I had no choicе as I became the underdog's voice
A young black kid... look what the fuck I did!
When I'm gone there'll be someone to carry on
We can give in, give up, or we can stay strong
How accepting of the bullshit we've all become
This whole world is... comfortably numb


Hello... is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello... is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?

You've got a TV, a computer, so you don't care
A roof, some clothes, some food
That's right, it's all there
Lock yourself in your house, try to forget about
The millions dyin' from wars, starvation and drought
You've got your own problems - yes, we all do
Nobody is free from stress, not him, or me, or you
But still we judge each other, we want to pick a fight
In the streets we kill each other, each and every weeknight
I don't want no drama but I carry a gun
I don't want no problems but they'll probably come
So we get high to wash away the pain
Self-medication, but that shit is all done in vain
We think that we can hide away from the misery
You can close your eyes but still can plainly see
There's nowhere to run...
You're just comfortably numb

Hello... is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello... is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
I spent half my life just trying to survive
And the other half trying to keep you all alive
For some reason I still care
I've done my dirt
It's amazing that i'm still here
There's true evil out there, I've been trying to warn you
You could meet the devil himself, then what you gonna do?
No time to pray, no chance to run
Listen... 'cause I've been on both sides of the gun
As you stand before me we're all here as one

We gotta come together or our chances are none
Maybe I'm just a dreamer, too many obstacles
The though of humans coexisting, that's impossible
Better to stay numb, live in denial
We're all going to hell and we did it to ourselves
Too much religious beef, too much racist shit
And if there is a God we probably make him sick

Hello... is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello... is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
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[Keith Jordan]

I guess its good that the song has been reinterpreted rather than record something that sounds a bit like the original.

[mosespa]

I'd like to think that at some point, the producer or an engineer or something asked "so...it's just going to play through the whole song?" and Ice-T answering "yeah...it's David Gilmour, motherf*cker, of COURSE it's going to play through the whole track!"

[Keith Jordan]

Yes I did get the impression that David will have recorded through the whole song expecting the producer to chop and move bits. Whoever produced it must have liked it so much they just left the lot in. Fantastic.

[flashback]

pretty good shit if you ask me

[Keith Jordan]

I have listened to it several times and it keeps getting better and better!

[Eclips]

Well, I really liked this on first listen and does get better as new details are revealed. For example, the "call and response effect" between Dave's guitar and the rapping vocals. Creative stuff.

And here is another link for it:

[K2+]

I don't listen to a lot of rap music, but I'm a fan of Ice-T, and his style.
This track was a nice surprise when I first heard it, and I think it is a great re-interpretation.