We could do whatever we wanted as long as it fit that framework." "He listed off some ideas, like maybe there'd be drifting and things on fire, it was pretty loose. "Joji had an idea for making a video that would be hand-held, shaky, where you're following a group of kids and there's lots of fast cutting and destruction," explained the director to Billboard. Shot on a Sony DCR-HC32 miniDV across multiple states and edited from approximately 15 hours of footage, it shows images of race cars, horses, police harassment, derelict living, and much more. Comfortably Numb was the winner.Dan Streit (Charli XCX's "Forever," Major Lazer's "Jump") directed the video. The public, however, had a different take on the matter: In 2006, the British radio station Planet Rock asked listeners to vote for the most beautiful solo of all time. The second guitar solo in Comfortably Numb was ranked the fourth most beautiful solo in the history of rock according to Guitar World magazine. But the risk is that we forget that the world of feelings, pain, searching, time for ourselves – even fatigue – represents our whole lives. Our society is based on productivity and success, so reducing our pain or level of humanity to achieve positive results is seen as beneficial. It only increases the distance, and even the voice on the record sounds more distant. The doctor in the lyrics takes away the pain to get the show going, but it doesn’t work. This is the meaning of the song: life is out there I prefer to face it and let it hurt me, than lose all sense of feeling.ĭepression, in Comfortably Numb, is just a grey waiting room, where everything is reminiscent of death. In other words, we may not suffer, but that does not make us alive escaping from life and its problems actually deprives us of something. The main theme is the distance between our minds and the perception of reality because of artificial relief. That’s why the lyrics say: ‘I can’t explain, you would not understand… This is not how I am’ The complete disorientation of man with respect to his situation makes him feel unable to really express himself and his sensations. “In literature, both the water and the sea symbolise our mind, especially the unexplored depths of the unconscious. Like a distant ship smoking on the horizon. Society doesn’t care about the effects of drugs, just so long as they serve their purpose. In a metaphorical sense, it could mean that the protagonist has been given a ‘fix’ in order that he can adequately address his life, society and relationships, which have become nothing more than a show to him. Of course, there could be various interpretations of this. We don’t need just to be seen, to be perceived: we need to be listened to. Because to be alive, to be human, we need others. I can’t explain, you would not understandĪ lack of communication is a form of pain. This song has a very clear vision, carved out of pain and the will to survive. These are lyrics written with the acute awareness of the melancholy that we experience sometimes, late at night. You have taken away my pain, you have anaesthetised me, but you haven’t made me happy. I can’t hear what you’re saying: there’s that distance again, mentioned in the chorus. Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’ “That was the longest two hours of my life, trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm.” And it was out of this that one of the main themes of The Wall came about: the disconnect between the public and the band. On the stage, his hands were numb and his vision blurred, but none of this derailed the crowd, who continued to dance and sing. In an interview released in the 80s, Waters said that much of the song comes from something that really happened one evening when, in order to allow him to perform in Philadelphia, the doctor gave him a sedative for a severe stomach ache, which had probably caused by nerves. In this way, almost as a whisper, Comfortably Numb begins: a wonderful poem about loneliness and the need for meanings.Ĭomfortably Numb, one of Pink Floyd’s most beloved songs, from The Wall (1979), with its melody and music by David Gilmour and lyrics by Roger Waters, describes a state of loss: the protagonist is someone who is anaesthetised before coming on stage.
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