To me it reminds me of my childhood days, laying on the grass for hours and staring at the bright blue sky and oh so white clouds drifting along. "A distant shipsmoke on the horizon..."
Pistolero114
Veteran
- Jun 25, 2019
- 261
I was a young adult when this was released. Then it was a reference for alluding to alcohol and/or drugs of the day. Now I am taken to a place where there's no feeling when I see the atrocities that occur almost daily and cover the front page of most daily papers and online news sources. Yeah. It's weird. But so am I.
If I remember correctly they said the song was about fever. But the beauty of it is that you can interpret it any way you like.
Severen
Enlightened
- Jun 30, 2018
- 1,819
I feel nothing. I just remember when I listened to Pink Floyd when I was a teen. I was also obsessed with Pink Floyd's The Wall movie too back then. It has some cool WW II scenes.
bacardirum
Experienced
- May 21, 2019
- 233
You could have attached it x
Just to save others the heartache you caused me :)
Just to save others the heartache you caused me :)
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not_a_robot
"i hope the leaving is joyful, & never to return"
- May 30, 2019
- 2,121
It just makes me super envious of people who have the social connections to obtain drugs easily. I've never met anyone with easy access to drugs that I could stand to talk to twice. The one time I tried to develop a serious speedball habit, it required me to associate with such disgusting people, in such disgusting places. Ugh.
Stupidass shrinks tell me I "must not really be suicidal" because "fentanyl is everywhere and so easy to get". Fucking idiots. They have no clue what life is like for actual human-type people. They don't even know what it's like to be an actual doctor-type person. Frauds.
Stupidass shrinks tell me I "must not really be suicidal" because "fentanyl is everywhere and so easy to get". Fucking idiots. They have no clue what life is like for actual human-type people. They don't even know what it's like to be an actual doctor-type person. Frauds.
Kyrok
Paragon
- Nov 6, 2018
- 970
I remember listening to it on my walkman, riding the bus to school... sitting at the back, lonely and depressed.
Depends on what day I'm having. Sometimes it makes me cry, sometimes it overwhelms me that Pink Floyd gave me too much crushing knowledge about life too early. I don't know how to explain. Everysince I started to listen Pink Floyd at age 20 or something I related to it in so heavy level. Beautiful music, nothing compares to it. Right now I don't want to listen to it, it brings me pain you know. I've become comfortably numb, and I don't want to hear it.
Edit: I still listen to it right now. The lyrics... fuck.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
Feels like I'm helpless child who hasn't learned the words yet and soul is screaming in helplessness without being able to express it, that usual feeling I have wherever I go in life.
Edit: I still listen to it right now. The lyrics... fuck.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
Feels like I'm helpless child who hasn't learned the words yet and soul is screaming in helplessness without being able to express it, that usual feeling I have wherever I go in life.
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I recently cried to the instrumental verion of "wish you were here". That's the first time I've cried in last three years.
Yeah, the deepness and beauty of it can really shake you up from death. You must have had a powerful emotional release. I'm glad it happened.
It's a movie with no dialog, so different from other movies I had seen and the movie was an experience of its own. It was everything, it was a mind-trip. I watched it once and I knew I will never return to watch it because you can't beat the feeling of first time which was so unique and surprising.. But what am I gonna do now, I talk of memories like there is nothing to look forward to anymore.
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inconsequential
Enlightened
- Jun 1, 2019
- 1,011
not_a_robot
"i hope the leaving is joyful, & never to return"
- May 30, 2019
- 2,121
Want to know what helps me from being overwhelmed by music?
Music is literally just something neurotypicals invented to manipulate each other.
When I see it that way, it's not emotional, just annoying. Just annoying shitty noise that neurotypicals fill the air with to pretend they feel something, bombarding and assaulting your mind in every public space. Bleh!
Hearing other people's love songs is like watching other people fuck; there's a proper time and place for it, and the frozen food aisle of my grocery store while I shop ain't it.
oh shit I mixed up your post with the one above it.
262653
Cluesome
- Apr 5, 2018
- 1,733
I haven't listened to it but judging from the artist I'd say NOT METAL ENOUGH.
*Oh, yay. My nickname color isn't dark blue anymore.
*Oh, yay. My nickname color isn't dark blue anymore.
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Dartz
Give Me The Dirt
- Jun 29, 2018
- 613
I prefer the Baroness lyric, "I've never felt so uncomfortably numb"
I don't enjoy the silence neither. I understand you, although I typed a long answer to you arguing a bit, I deleted it already. Thanks for your view.
daikon
trash golem
- Dec 26, 2018
- 142
I love it. I love the poetry of it (You are only coming through in waves...), and the fantasy of it — it's pretty rare for me to feel comfortably numb. It opens up a space in me that feels infinite, usually an infinite sadness, or a sort of wonder for the human brain and its strange relationship with stimulation sometimes running from it, sometimes chasing it. The instrumentals are gorgeous too. Plus it makes me think of my late boyfriend, who was a big Pink Floyd fan.
Scribble Fan
I'm out!
- May 30, 2019
- 815
This used to be played in the car for road-trips when I was a child so.. I don't know. I disliked my family and half associate this with them, half love the song for the sense of connection through familiarity, kind of like an old friend.
been_there
Life cares only for itself.
- Jun 5, 2019
- 297
SinisterKid
Visionary
- Jun 1, 2019
- 2,113
Play me anything by Floyd and I am instantly carried away from my cares and worries. I have seen my musical tastes change and expand over the years, but the one constant has been my love for Floyd music.
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye,
I turned to look but it was gone,
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
If that does not explain growing up, then nothing ever could.
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye,
I turned to look but it was gone,
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
If that does not explain growing up, then nothing ever could.
been_there
Life cares only for itself.
- Jun 5, 2019
- 297
Water's words were thought to be "a bit whiney" by the public schoolboys in the band. That explains growing up in the UK education system.
SelfHatingAspie
Ambitious but rubbish
- Jul 2, 2019
- 198
Ambie
Member
- Jun 13, 2019
- 46
The song is ruined for me. I used to listen to it a few years back when I was addicted to opiates. Worst time of my life. The drugs made me happy for a moment but that was nothing compared to the misery that followed
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This is so uncanny. Just saw this thread. I spent all night having very vivid dreams and one was about this song.
I love this song, it gives me shivers. I thought it was about heroin so didn't really read into the lyrics too much other than thinking I can relate to feeling comfortably numb from other experiences
I love this song, it gives me shivers. I thought it was about heroin so didn't really read into the lyrics too much other than thinking I can relate to feeling comfortably numb from other experiences
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