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The Pros And Cons Basic Analysis By David Smith

The Pros And Cons Basic Analysis By David Smith

More complex than the wall and deeper than Dark Side, just a shame about the music. The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking was the first solo album by Roger Waters and the subject of this fairly light song by song analysis to help those that struggle with the album to follow it and to be able to develop their own ideas from these ones. So we start with the narrator drifting off to sleep as the lines between reality and dream are blurred. His wife tries to engage her in conversation but he appears to respond to her seeing a fantasy woman instead of her introducing us to the theme of infidelity and the first song: We were moving away from the border Looking for somewhere to sleep The two of us sharing the driving The narrator and his wife (assuming she is that) here in the car, keep note...