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Pink Floyd - The Hero's Return (Waters)
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Jesus, Jesus, what's it all about?
Trying to clout these little ingrates into shape.
When I was their age all the lights went out.
There was no time to whine or mope about.
Cmaj7 D
And even now part of me flies over
Cmaj7
Dresden at angels one five.
D Cmaj7
Though they'll never fathom it behind my
D
Sarcasm desperate memories lie.
D
Sweetheart sweetheart are you fast asleep? Good.
'Cause that's the only time that I can really speak to you.
And there is something that I've locked away
A memory that is too painful
To withstand the light of day.
Cmaj7 D Cmaj7
When we came back from the war the banners and
D
Flags hung on everyone's door.
Cmaj7
We danced and we sang in the street and
D
The church bells rang.
G C
But burning in my heart,
G C
My memory smoulders on
G C Em add9
Of the gunners dying words on the intercom.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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St. Jimmy Wanna Be |
#1 by St. Jimmy at Dec 15, 1973 at 2:31 AM EST |
| The Schoolmaster also stars in Fletcher Memorial, I do believe... Anywho, "The Final Cut" was ultimately a tie up album. Not really "The Wall, pt. 3", seeing as at the end of the Wall Pink's problems are resolved, but they do tie up a few loose ends. Bashyou, yeah, the teacher was insecure because his wife was abusive, as said by "The Wall". But what ho? "Sweet-heart, sweet-heart, are you fast asleep? / Good, that's the only time that I can really speak to you?" Hey! What do you know! IT'S THE WIFE! Anywho, I felt like pointing that out. Back to the main focus, this song is part of a story-line regarding the teacher. One that, in my opinion, includes "Your Possible Pasts", "One of the Few", this song, "The Gunner's Dream", and "Paranoid Eyes". Notice that these were all sequential songs in the initial publishing of the album. | |
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amy Average |
#2 by amy at Jul 28, 1985 at 8:17 PM EST |
| I will try to decipher the lyrics here: Jesus Christ I might as well be dead I can see how dangerous it must feel to be Training human corps for the machine Without some shell-shocked lunatic like me But burning their still soft-shells With sticks and stones that were lying around In the pile of unspeakable feelings I'd found And I turned back the stone Turned over the stone Of my own disappointment back home I think this is right, except for the burning (But burning their still soft-shells). It's about training up more people for the war. | |
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paste your name Average |
#3 by paste your name here at Sep 22, 1991 at 1:43 AM EST |
| the hero is not hte the teacher from the wall u idiot the teacher from the wall demeaned the children because he was insecure and had a wife that bashed him so his taking his frustration out on the children the hero in hte song is the person who said the lyrics of the second verse of the post war dream...because maggie sold the british naval project to japan the clyde went backrupt and there was mass unemployment......the clyde cud have been a possible job for the hero to work at after the war..but becuase maggie gave the project to japan...he must now find an alternative which is to teach....and most ppl dont like their job if its out of desperation.....and the reason he calls the pupils ingrates is becuase ingrate means un grateful person...in his fews these kids are ungrateful to his afforts in the war and the second verse is about his guilt for demolishing dresden the 3rd verse he tallks to his wife about his guilt...but only in her sleep because he is affraid of letting really know wat happened...mainly because of the guilt the last verse is (this is totally my own opinion...but its still probably more logical then the bull shit the first guy and the second guy said).....linking the relationship of the ex ww2 solider and the boy who lost his father in the war ( for the idiots who didnt figure this out yet....the final cut album has two parallel stories....one about a disappointed soldier...on about aboy whos dad died in the war)....any ways i come to this conclusion because...in the film the wall....the father was on the intercom trying to send a message just before a bomb was dropped on him...and i think that the hero in this song is the man on the other side of the intercom | |
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jga Average |
#4 by jga qup at Oct 11, 1996 at 10:16 PM EST |
| it IS about the Schoolmaster. This album was actually supposed to be the 3rd part of The Wall. This is one of the major things that the band fought about prior to the break-up. The rest of the band didn't like these songs because they felt that it delt to singularly to Roger Water's past (his father died in WWII, or at least was in it). The band refused to use this as part of The Wall, so Roger Waters released it after the break-up. If you don't believe me, go to the Pink Floyd web site (http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/theFinalCut/) and watch the movie. It includes only a few of the songs from the album though. And SURPRISE! Who stars in this short film? Oh yes, The Schoolmaster! | |
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IvZ Average |
#5 by IvZ at Nov 1, 1996 at 5:33 PM EST |
| I can't listen to anything other than this album these days, thinking about he Iraq war and all that. | |
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phoen Average |
#6 by phoen bay at Apr 28, 2000 at 9:11 PM EST |
| Once again, this makes more sense if you understand that the titular 'Hero' is the teacher from the Wall (see the Gunner's Dream). The little ingrates are his pupils, who are growing up without the pressures of war. | |
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mat Wanna Be |
#7 by mat bar at Aug 2, 2007 at 10:17 AM EST |
| The line would make more sense if it were "traing human COGS for the machine" and thats what I think it is. and in regards to the last line of the song...the gunners dream is obviously "a place to stay enough to eat...(a place where) No one kills the children anymore...you'll never hear the standered issue kicking in your door". thats a quote from the song after this on the album "the gunners dream" its a dream of peace | |
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