In the flesh

In the flesh?

So ya

Thought ya

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 wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes

You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise

The thin ice

Mamma loves her baby

And daddy loves you too

And the sea may look warm to you babe

And the sky may look blue

Oooh babe

Oooh baby blue

Oooh 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 slip out of your depth and out of your mind

With your fear flowing out behind you

As you claw the ice

Another brick in the wall, part 1

Daddy's flown across the ocean

Leaving just a memory

A snapshot in the family album

Daddy what else did you leave for me?

Daddy what 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 grew up and went to school

There were certain teachers

Who would hurt the children anyway they could

By pouring their derision

Upon anything we did

Exposing every weakness

However carefully 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

Teacher leave them kids alone

Hey teacher, leave the kids alone

All in all it's just another brick in the wall

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

We don't need no education

We don't need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teachers leave them kids alone

Hey teacher, leave us kids alone

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?

Ooh ah, 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?

Ooh ah, is it just a waste of time?

Hush now baby, baby don't you cry

Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true

Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you

Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing

She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing

Mama's gonna keep baby cozy and warm

Oooh babe

Ooh babe, of course mama's gonna help build the wall

Mother do you think she's good enough, for me?

Mother do you think she's dangerous, to me?

Mother will she tear your little boy apart?

Ooh ah, mother will she break my heart?

Hush now baby, baby don't you cry

Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you

Mama won't let anyone dirty get through

Mama's gonna wait up until you get in

Mama will always find out where you've been

Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean

Oooh babe

Ooh babe, you'll always be a baby to me

Mother, did it need to be so high?

Goodbye blue sky

Oooh... Oooh... Oooh...

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

Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?

Oooh... Oooh... Oooh...

Did you see the frightened ones?

Did you hear the falling bombs?

The flames are 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 should I fill the final places?

How should 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?

Ooh I need a dirty woman

Ooh I need a dirty girl

Will some woman in this desert land

Make me feel like a real man

Take this rock and roll refugee

Ooh babe, set me free

Ooh I need a dirty woman

Ooh I need a dirty girl

Ooh I need a dirty woman

Ooh I need a dirty girl

One of my turns

Day after day

Love turns grey

Like the skin on a dying man

And night after night

We pretend it's all right

But I have grown older

And you have grown colder

And nothing is very much fun, anymore

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

One of my bad days

Would you like to watch TV?

Or get between the sheets?

Or contemplate a silent freeway?

Would you like something to eat?

Would you like to learn to fly?

Would ya?

Would you like to see me try?

Ooh aah, no

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

Ooh 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

Ooh babe

Don't leave me now

How could you go?

When you know how I need you

To beat to a pulp on a saturday night

Ooh babe

Don't leave me now

How can you treat me this way?

Running away

Ooh babe

Why are you running away?

Oooh babe... Oooh babe...

Oooh babe... Oooh...

Another brick in the wall, part 3

I don't need no arms around me

And 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 all just bricks in the wall

All in all you were all just bricks in the wall

Goodbye cruel world

I'm leaving you today

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

Goodbye all you people

There's nothing you can say

To make me change my mind

Goodbye

Hey you

Hey you, out there in the cold

Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me?

Hey you, standing in the aisle

With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me?

Hey you, don't help them to bury the light

Don't give in without 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 on the road

Always 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

Is there anybody out there?

Nobody home

Got a little black book with my poems in

Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in

When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in

I've got elastic bands keeping my shoes on

Got those swollen hand blues

I've got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from

I've got electric light

And I got second sight

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 got the obligatory Hendrix perm

And the inevitable pinhole burns

All down in front of my favorite satin shirt

I've got nicotine stains on my fingers

I've got a silver spoon on a chain

Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains

I got wild staring eyes

And I got a strong urge to fly

But I got nowhere to fly to

Ooh babe

When I pick up the phone

There's still nobody home

I got a pair of Gohills boots

And I got fading roots

Vera

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

Remember how 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

Don't leave the children on their own

Bring the boys back home

Comfortably numb

Is there anybody out there?

Hello

Is there anybody in there?

Just nod if you can hear me

Is there anyone home?

Come on now

I hear you're feeling down

Well I can ease your pain

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's smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'

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

I have become comfortably numb

Just a little pinprick

There'll be no more aaaaah!

But you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up?

I do believe it's working, good

That'll keep you going through the show

Come on it's time to go

There is no pain, you are receding

A distant ship's smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'

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

I have become comfortably numb

The show must go on

Aaah... Aaah... Aaah...

Ooh ma... Ooh pa...

Must the show go on?

Ooh pa take me home

Ooh ma let me go

There must be some mistake

I didn't mean to let them take away my soul

Am I too old, is it too late?

Ooh ma... Ooh pa...

Where has the feeling gone?

Ooh ma... Ooh pa...

Will I remember the song?

The show must go on

In the flesh

So ya

Thought ya

Might like to go to the show

To feel the warm thrill of confusion

That space cadet glow

I 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

We're gonna find out where you fans really stand

Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?

Get 'em up against the wall

There's one in the spotlight

He don't look right to me

Get him up against the wall

And 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

You better make your face up with 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 as the cockleshell shatters

And the hammers batter down your door

You better run

You better run all day

And run all night

And keep your dirty feelings deep inside

And if you're taking your girlfriend out tonight

You 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

Oooh you cannot reach me now

Oooh no matter how you try

Goodbye cruel world it's over

Walk on by

Sitting in a bunker

Here behind my 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 strengthen the strain

Waiting to follow the worms

Waiting to turn on the showers and fire the ovens

Waiting for the queers 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

I wanna go home

Take off this uniform and leave the show

But I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know

Have I been guilty all this time?

The trial

Good morning worm your honour

The crown will plainly show

The prisoner who now stands before you

Was caught red handed showing feelings

Showing feelings of an almost human nature

This will not do

Call the schoolmaster

I always said he'd come to no good

In the end your honour

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 him today

Crazy, toys in the attic, I am crazy

Truly gone fishing

They must have taken my marbles away

Crazy, toys in the attic, he is crazy

You little shit, you're in it now

I hope they throw away the key

You should've 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 honour

Him and me alone"

Babe

Come to mother baby

Let me hold you in my arms

M'lord, I never wanted him to get in any trouble

Why'd he ever have to leave me?

Worm your honour, 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 came 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 someone more deserving of the full penalty of law

The way you made them suffer

Your exquisite wife and mother

Fills me with the urge to defecate

Since, 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 gather together in bands

The bleeding hearts and artists

Make their stands

And when they've given you their all

Some stagger and fall

After all it's not easy

Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall

OUTTAKES

When the tigers broke free

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 kind old King George

Sent Mother a note

When he heard that father was gone

It was, I recall

In a 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

What shall we do now?

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces

Where waves of hunger roar?

Shall we set out across this sea of faces?

In search of more and more applause

Shall we buy a new guitar?

Shall we drive a more powerful car?

Shall we work straight through the night?

Shall we get into fights?

Leave the lights on?

Drop bombs?

Do tours of the east?

Contract diseases?

Bury bones?

Break up homes?

Send flowers by phone?

Take to drink?

Go to shrinks?

Give up meat?

Rarely sleep?

Keep people as pets?

Train dogs?

Race rats?

Fill the attic with cash?

Bury treasure?

Store up leisure?

But never relax at all

With our backs to the wall