In the Flesh
 
So you
Thought you
Might like to go to the show
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow
Tell me is something eluding you sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?
If you'd like to find out what's behind these cold eyes?
You'll just have to claw your way through the disguise
 
 
The Thin Ice
 
Mamma loves her baby
And daddy loves you too
And the sea may look warm to you baby
And the sky may look blue
But Ooooh baby
Ooooh baby blue
Ooooh babe
If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear stained eyes
Don't be surprised, when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet
You ship out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear, flowing out behind you
As you clan the thin ice.
 
 
Another Brick in the Wall (part 1)
 
Daddy's flown across the ocean
leaving just a memory
A snap shot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave behind for me
Daddy what d'you leave behind for me
All in all it was just a brick in the wall
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
 
 
The Happiest Days of our Lives
 
When we grow up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children anyway they could
By pointing their derision
Upon anything we did
And exposing every weakness
However careful hidden by the kids
But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
Psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives
 
 
Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)
 
We don't need no education
we don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey teacher leaves the kids alone
All in all its just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
 
 
Mother
 
Mother do you think, they'll drop the bomb
Mother do you think, they'll like the song
Mother do you think, they'll try to break my
balls
Mother should I build a wall
Mother should I run for president
Mother should I trust the government
Mother will they put me in the firing line
Mother am I really dying,
Hush, now baby don't you cry
Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you
Mama's gonna keep you right her
Under her wing
She won't let you fly but she night let you sing
Mama will keep baby cozy and warm
Ooooh Babe, Ooooh Babe, Ooooh Babe
Of course mom'll help build the wall
Hush, now baby, baby don't you cry
Mama's gonna check out all you're girl
friends for you
Mamma's won't let anyone dirty get through
Mama's gonna wait up till you come in
Mama will always find out where
You've been
Mama's gonna keep you healthy and clear
Ooooh Babe, Ooooh Babe, Ooooh Babe
You'll always be a baby to me
Mother, did it need to be so high
 
 
.
 
Goodbye Blue Sky
 
Gooooooooooooooooodby
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
Did you ever wonder
Why we had to run for shelter
When the promise of a brave new world
Unfold beneath a clean blue sky
Oooooooooooooooooooooh
Did you see the frightened ones
Did you hear the falling bombs
The flames and all long gone
But the pain lingers on
Goodbye blue sky
Goodbye
 
 
Empty Spaces
 
What shall we use to fill the empty
Spaces where we used to talk
How shall I fill the final places
How shall I complete the wall
 
 
Young Lust
 
I am just a new boy
A stranger in this town
Where are all the good times
Who's gonna show this stranger around?
Oooooooh I need a dirty woman
Oooooooh I need a dirty girl
Will some old woman in this desert land
Make me feel like a real man
Take this rock and roll refugee
Oooooooh Babe set me free
Oooooooh I need a dirty woman
Oooooooh I need a dirty girl
 
 
One of My Turns
 
Day after day, love turns grey
like the skin of a dying man
Night after night, we pretend it's all right
But I've grown older and
You have grown older and
Nothing is very much fun any more
And I can feel one of my turns coming on
I feel, cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the
left
You'll find my favorite axe
Don't look so frightened
This is just a passing phase
Just one of my bad days
Would you like to watch t.v.?
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat?
Would you like to learn to fly?
Would you like to see me try?
Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it's time I stopped?
Why are you running away?
 
 
Don't Leave Me Now
 
Ooooh Babe
Don't leave me now
Don't say it's the end of the road
Remember the flowers I sent
I need you Babe
To put through the shredder
In front of my friends
Ooooh Babe
Don't leave me now
How gold you go?
When you know how I need you,
to beat to a pulp on a Saturday night
Ooooh Babe
Don't leave me now
How can you treat me this way
Running away, I need you Babe
Why are you running away?
Ooooh Babe
 
 
Another Brick in the Wall (part 3)
 
I don't need no arms around me
I don't need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I need anything at all
No don't think I'll need anything at all
All in all it was just a brick in the wall
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
 
 
Goodbye Cruel World
 
Goodbye cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye all your people
There's nothing you can say
To make me change
My mind Goodbye
 
 
Is there anybody out there?
 
Is there anybody out there?
 
 
Nobody Home
 
I've got a little black book with my poems in
I've got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in
When I'm a good dog they something throw me a bone in
I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on
got those swollen hand blues.
Got thirteen channels of shit on the t.v. to choose from
I've got electric light
And I've got second sight
I've got amazing powers of observation
And that is how I know
When I try to get through
On the telephone to you
There'll be nobody home
I've got the obligatory Hendrix Perm
And the inevitable printshole burns
And down the front of my favourite satin shirt
I've got a silver spoon on a chain
I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains
I've got wild staring eyes
I've got a strong urge to fly
but I've got nowhere to fly to
Ooooh Babe when I pick up the phone
There's still nobody home
I've got a pain of Gohills boots
And I've got fading roots
 
 
Vera
 
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn
Remember now she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you
Does anybody else in here?
Feel the way I do.
 
 
Bring the Boys Back Home
 
Bring the boys back home
bring the boys back home
Don't leave the children on their own
Bring the boys back home
 
 
Comfortably Numb
 
Hello,
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home
come on now,
I hear you're feeling down
I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
 
There is no pain you are receding
a distant ship smoke on the horizon
You have only coming through in wares
Your lips more but I can't hear why you're
saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands fell just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
O.K.
Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick
can you stand up?
I do believe its working good
that I'll keep you going through the show
Come on its time to go
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant chip smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can hear what you're
saying
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
And I have become
Comfortably numb
 
 
Hey You
 
Hey you! Out there in the cold
setting lonely, getting old, can you feel me
Hey you! Standing in the aisles
with itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me
Hey you, don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in whitant a fight
Hey you! Out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone would you touch me
Hey you! With your ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out would you touch me
Hey you! Would you help me to carry the stone
Open your heart, I'm coming home
But it was only fantasy
The wall was too high as you can see
No matter how he tried he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain.
Hey you! Out there of the road
Doing what you're told, can you help me
Hey you! Out there beyond the wall
Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me
Hey you! Don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall
 
 
The Show Must Go On
 
Oooh Ma, Oooh Pa
Does the show have to go on
Oooh Pa take me home
Oooh Ma let me go
Do I have to stand up
Wild eyed in the spotlight
What a nightmare why!
Don't I turn and run
There must be some mistake
I didn't mean to let them
Take away my soul
Am I too old is it too late
Oooh Ma, Oooh Pa
Where has the feeling gone?
Oooh Ma, Oooh Pa
Will I remember the songs
The show must go on
 
 
In the Flesh
 
So you
Thought you
Might like to
Go to the show
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow
I've got some bad news for you sunshine
Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
And we're going to find out where you fans
Really stand
And there any queers in the theatre tonight
Set em up against the wall
There's one in the spotlight
He don't look right to me
Get him up against the wall
That one looks Jewish
And that one's a coon
Who let all this riff raff, into the room
There's one smoking a joint and
Another with spots
If I had my way
I'd have all of you shot
 
 
Run Like Hell
 
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run,
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run.
 
You better make your face up in
your favorite disguise.
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes.
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart.
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past.
With your nerves in tatters
When the conchshell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down the door.
You'd better run.
 
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run,
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run.
 
You better sleep all day
And run all night.
Keep your dirty feelings
Deep inside.
And if you're taking your girlfriend
Out tonight
You'd better park the car
Well out of sight.
Cause if they catch you in the back seat
Trying to pick her locks,
They're gonna
send you back to mother
In a cardboard box.
You better run.
 
 
Waiting for the Worms
 
Ooooh You cannot reach me now
Ooooh No matter how you try
Goodbye cruel world it's over
Walk on by
Sitting in a bunker here behind the wall
Waiting for the worms to come
In perfect isolation here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come
Waiting to cut out the deadwood
Waiting to clean up the city
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to put on a black shirt
Waiting to weed out the weaklings
Waiting to smash in their windows
And kick in their doors
Waiting for the final solution
To strong then the train
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to turn on the showers
And find the ovens
Waiting for the queens and the coons
And the reds and the Jews
Waiting to follow the worms
Would you like to see Britannia
Rule again my friend
All you have to do is follow the worms
Would you like to send our coloured cousins
Home again my friend
All you need to do is follow the worms
 
 
Stop
 
Stop
I wanna go home
Take off this uniform
And leave the show
And I'm waiting in the cell
Because I have to know
Have I been guilty all the time
 
 
The Trial
 
Good morning Worm, Your Honor
The Crown will plainly the show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Shame on him
This will not do
Call the schoolmaster
I always said he'd come to no good
In the end your honor
If they'd let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder
Let me hammer today
Crazy, toys in the attic, I am crazy
They must have taken my marbles away
Call the defendants wife
You little shit, you're in It's now
I hope they throw away the key
You should have talked to me more often
Than you did, but no you had to
Go your own way. Have you broken any
Homes up lately?
Just five minutes Worm, your honor
Babe
Come to mother baby, let me hold you
In my arms
I never wanted him to
get in any trouble
Why'd he ever have to leave me
Worm, your honor let me take him home
Crazy over the rainbow I am crazy
Bars in the window
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I come in
Crazy, over the rainbow he is crazy
The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible, there's no need for
The jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before of
Some one more deserving
The full penalty of law
The way you made them suffer
Your exquisite wife and mother
Fills me with the urge to deficate
But my friend you have revealed your
Deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed before
Your peers
Tear down the wall
 
 
Outside the Wall
 
All alone, or in twos
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
Some gathering together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand
And when they're given you their all
Some stagger and fall after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers