Comfortably Numb Solo Guitar Tab

		
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2:05

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2:18

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2:27                                                 

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 2:39
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Beaver Average	#1 by Beaver Butt at Oct 18, 1974 at 11:16 AM EST
	I'd just like to say that this song was not based on any one band member's life. If any, it was based on the life of "Syd" Barrett. I've seen "The Wall" more times than I can count, and on the DVD version of it, you can listen to commentary of Roger Waters and the director, Alan Parker. The beginning scene where it shows "Pink" sitting in the chair with the cigarette burnt to the filter and the ashes haven't fallen, he explains how he once found "Syd" in the same position. That he was so comfortably numb he hadn't noticed the burning on his fingers. He also speaks of how, yes BradNZ, they were all on drugs during most of their shows. So I do think that this song does relate to drugs, but not directly. I think the song is more about how "Pink" was mentally and emotionally very tired and stressed out by all the "bricks" in his wall. I think "The Wall" shows a very good iinterpretation of the song. This is just my opinion. Don't get pissed off if it's not your's also.

No Picture Angus Rhythm Player	#2 by Angus Young at Nov 14, 1979 at 8:32 PM EST
	man david gilmour was a god. This song embodies all of drugs and how they help the pain. I don't do heroin either but i listened to this song for hours whenever im stoned

No Picture Quinn Rhythm Player	#3 by Quinn I killed my last name at Jun 9, 1989 at 10:24 AM EST
	Ok I have a bit more info now. The song was written by Dave Gilmour but was sung about Roger Waters who needed the drugs to get through the show.

No Picture Roman Rhythm Player	#4 by Roman Malik at Oct 2, 1991 at 7:12 AM EST
	See...how I always saw this song was as a sick or dying man that was in severe pain. The speaker at the beginning is a doctor or medic of some sort. Hense the "I need some information, first/Just the basic facts/Can you show me where it hurts." The next stanza is, of course, the man in pain speaking. He is reliving a childhood experiance, perhaps the first time he was hurt or sick. At this point he is becoming so engroused in his feelings and the pain that it all just stops hurting. The only thing he can concentrait on is the childhood experiance that he has forgotten but is trying to grasp now. The first time he says comfortably numb means he has lost all sense of reality and is just in his mind, completely lost from the world and engrossed so much into this memory from his past. Now, the next time the doctor speaks to him, he is giving him a shot, or fixing him in some way. In the line "That'll keep you going through the show" I believe that the "show" is either life, or going with the theme of The Wall album and movie, war. The last stanza is of course, him recovering. But in a very different way. He still cannot hear the doctor at first, and is still in his memory. Slowly, though, the memory begins to fade and slip away from him. The second time he is "comfortably numb" is either because of the doctors drugs, the fact that he does not want to go on anymore, or a combination of the both. But other than the doctors drugs...there are no drugs involved in this.