Pink Floyd (86,20 %)
The Final Cut (30,18 %)
In collection
Released: 1983-03-21
Type: Studio
Type: Studio
Ranking:
Artist:
14
Year (1983):
73
Decade (1980's):
745
Overall:
2775
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1.
The Postwar Dream
 03:00
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2.
Your Possible Pasts
 04:26
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3.
One of the Few
 01:12
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4.
When the Tigers Broke Free
 03:17
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5.
The Hero's Return
 02:43
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6.
The Gunner's Dream
05:18
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7.
Paranoid Eyes
 03:42
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8.
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
01:17
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9.
The Fletcher Memorial Home
04:13
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10.
Southampton Dock
02:11
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11.
The Final Cut
04:46
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12.
Not Now John
04:56
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13.
Two Suns in the Sunset
05:21
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Album length:
46:22
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Lyrics |
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1.
The Postwar Dream
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tell me true tell me why was Jesus crucified is it for this that daddy died? was it for you? was it me? did i watch too much t.v.? is that a hint of accusation in your eyes? if it wasn't for the nips being so good at building ships the yards would still be open on the clyde and it can't be much fun for them beneath the rising sun with all their kids committing suicide what have we done maggie what have we done what have we done to england should we shout should we scream "what happened to the post war dream?" oh maggie maggie what have we done? |
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2.
Your Possible Pasts
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they flutter behind you your possible pasts some brighteyed and crazy some frightened and lost a warning to anyone still in command of their possible future to take care in derelict sidings the poppies entwine with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time do you remember me? how we used to be? do you think we should be closer? she stood in the doorway the ghost of a smile haunting her face like a cheap hotel sign her cold eyes imploring the men in their macs for the gold in their bags or the knives in their backs stepping uo boldly one put out his hand he said, "i was just a child then now I'm only a man" do you remember me? how we used to be? do you think we should be closer? by the cold and religious we were taken in hand shown how to feel good and told to feel bad tongue tied and terrified we learned how to pray now our feelings run deep and cold as the clay and strung out behind us the banners and flags of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags do you remember me? how we used to be? do you think we should be closer? |
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3.
One of the Few
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when you're one of the few to land on your feet what do you do to make ends meet? teach make them mad, make them sad, make them add two and two make them me, make them you, make them do what you want them to make them laugh, make them cry, make them lie down and die |
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4.
When the Tigers Broke Free
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it was just before dawn one miserable morning in black forty-four when the forward commander was told to sit tight when he asked that his men be withdrawn and the generals gave thanks as the other ranks held back the enemy tanks for a while and the anzio bridgehead was held for the price of a few hundred ordinary lives and old king george sent mother a note when he heard that father was gone it was, i recall, in the form of a scroll with gold leaf and all and i found it one day in a drawer of old photographs hidden away and my eyes still grow damp to remember his majesty signed with his own rubber stamp it was dark all around there was frost in the ground when the tigers broke free and no one survived from the royal fusiliers company c they were all left behind most of them dead the rest of them dying and that's how the high command took my daddy from me |
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5.
The Hero's Return
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jesus, jesus, what's it all about? trying to clout these little ingrates into shape when i was their age all the lights went out there was no time to whine and mope about and even now part of me flies over dresden at angels one five though they'll never fathom it behind my sarcasm desperate memories lie sweetheart sweetheart are you fast asleep, good that's the only time that i can really talk to you and there is something that i've locked away a memory that is too painful to withstand the light of day when we came back from the war the banners and flags hung on everyones door we danced and we sang in the street and the church bells rang but burning in my heart the memory smoulders on of the gunners dying words on the intercom |
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6.
The Gunner's Dream
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floating down through the clouds memories come rushing up to meet me now in the space between the heavens and in the corner of some foreign field i had a dream i had a dream goodbye max goodbye ma after the service when you're walking slowly to the car and the silver in her hair shines in the cold november air you hear the tolling bell and touch the silk in your lapel and as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band you take her frail hand and hold on to the dream a place to stay enough to eat somwhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street where you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears and what's more no-one ever disappears you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door you can relax on both sides of the tracks and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control and everyone has recourse to the law and no-one kills the children anymore and no-one kills the children anymore night after night going round and round my brain his dream is driving me insane in the corner of some foreign field the gunner sleeps tonight whats done is done we cannot just write off his final scene take heed of his dream take heed |
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7.
Paranoid Eyes
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button your lip don't let the shield slip take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask and if they try to break down your disguise with their questions you can hide hide hide behind paranoid eyes you put on your brave face and slip over the road for a jar fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar laughing too loud at the rest of the world with the boys in the crowd you can hide hide hide behind petrified eyes you believed in their stories of fame fortune and glory now you're lost in a haze of alchohol soft middle age the pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high and you hide hide hide behind brown and mild eyes |
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8.
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
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brezhnev took afghanistan and begin took beirut galtieri took the union jack and maggie over lunch one day took a cruiser with all hands apparently to make him give it back |
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9.
The Fletcher Memorial Home
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take all your overgrown infants away somewhere and build them a home a little place of their own the fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings and they can appear to themselves every day on closed circuit t.v. to make sure they're still real it's the only connection they feel "ladies and gentelmen, please welcome reagan and haig mr. begin and friends mrs. thatcher and paisley mr. brezhnev and party the gost of mccarthy the memories of nixon and now adding colour a group of anonymous latin- american meat packing glitterati" did they expect us to treat them with any respect they can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for a while boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead safe in the permanent gaze of a gold glass eye with their favourite toys they'll be good girls and boys in the fletcher memorial home for colonial wasters of life and limb is everyone in? are you having a nice time? now the final solution can be applied |
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10.
Southampton Dock
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they disembarked in 45 and no one spoke and no one smiled there were too many spaces in the line gathered at the centaph all agreed with the hand on heart to sheath the sacrificial knifes but now she stands upon southampton dock with her handkerchief and her summer frock clings to her wet body in the rain in quiet desperation knuckles white upon the slippery reins she bravely waves the boys goodbye again and still the dark stain spreads between his shoulder blades a mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves and when the fight was over we spent what they had made but in the bottom of our hearts we felt the final cut |
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11.
The Final Cut
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through the fish eyed lens of tear stained eyes i can barely define the shape of this moment in time and far from flying high in clear blue skies i'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where i hide if you negotiate the minefield in the drive and beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes and if you make it past the shotgun in the hall dial the combination open the priesthole and if i'm in i'll tell you what's behind the wall there's a kid who had a big hallucination making love to girls in magazines he wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith could anybody love him or is it just a grazy dream and if i show you my dark side will you still hold me tonight and if i open my heart to you and show you my weak side what would you do would you sell your story to rolling stone would you take the children away and leave me alone and smile in reassurance as you whisper down the phone would you send me packing or would you take me home thought i oughta bare my naked feelings thought i oughta tear the curtain down i held the blade in trembling hands prepared to make it but just then the phone rang i never had the nerve to make the final cut |
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12.
Not Now John
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fuck all that we've got to get on with these got to compete with the whily japanese there's too many home fires burning and not enough trees so fuck all that we've got to get on with these can't stop lose job mind gone sillicon wath bomb get away pay day make hay break down need fix big six clickity click hold on oh no brrrrrrrrrring bingo! make em laugh make me cry make em dance in the aisles make em pay make em stay make em feel ok not now john we've got to get on with the film show hollywood waits at the end of the rainbow who cares what it's about as long as the kids go not now john got to get on with the show hang on john i've got to go on with this i don't really know what it is but i don't really come at the end of a shift we'll go and get pissed not now john i've got to get on with this hold on john i think there's something good on i used to read books but... it could be the news or some other abuse or it could be reusable shows fuck all that we've got to get on with these got to compete with the wily japanese no need to worry about the vietnamese got to bring the russian bear to his knees well, maybe not the russian bear maybe the swedes we showed argentina now let's go and show these make us feel tough and wouldn't maggie be pleased nah nah nah! s'cusi dove il bar se para collo pou eine toe bar s'il vous plait ou est le bar oi, where's the fucking bar john! |
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13.
Two Suns in the Sunset
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in my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and i think of all the good things that we have left undone and i suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come the wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in gives way and suddenly it's day again the sun is in the east even though the day is done two suns in the sunset could be the human race is run like the moment when the brakes lock and you slide towards the big truck you stretch the frozen moments with your fear and you'll never hear their voices and you'll never see their faces you have no recourse to the law anymore and as the windshield melts and my tears evaporate leaving only charcoal to defend finally i understand the feelings of the few ashes and diamonds foe and friend we were all equal in the end |