Waiting For The Worms Chords Guitar Tab

Pink Floyd - Waiting For The Worms
Added to UG By Mikhailo (mikhailo_@mail.ru)
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G   C      G                     C
Ooooh you cannot reach me now
G                    C
Ooooh no matter how you try
D                        C
Goodbye cruel world it's over
G
Walk on by
G                                  C     G  Am
Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall
G              C
Waiting for the worms to come
G                                C     G  Am
In perfect isolation here behind my wall
G        C
Waiting for the worms to come
Am                         G
Waiting to cut out the deadwood
Am                        C
Waiting to clean up the city
Am         G          Am
Waiting to follow the worms
G
Waiting to put on a black shirt
Am
Waiting to weed out the weaklings
Waiting to smash in their windows
G
And kick in their doors.
Am
Waiting for the final solution
G
To strengthen the strain
Am         G          Am
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to turn on the showers
G
And fire the ovens
Am
Waiting for the queers and the coons
G
and the reds and the Jews
Am         G          Am
Waiting to follow the worms
G
Would you like to see Britannia
C    G  C       Bm  Am
Rule again my friend
Am                    G                    Em
All you have to do is follow the worms
G
Would you like to send our coloured cousins
Bm C    G  C
Home a--gain my friend ?
Am                    G                   Em
All you need to do is follow the worms.

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Colin Wanna Be	#1 by Colin Gauld at Mar 18, 1978 at 12:44 PM EST
	While Water did write The Wall and used many experiences to make it, this not is not about him! It's about Pink! Please make that distinction.

No Picture Will Average	#2 by Will Yost at Dec 2, 1988 at 8:01 PM EST
	I think the "sitting in a bunker" line may be talking about a German soldier or even Hitler himself. History buffs will know that Hitler was hiding in a bunker when he killed himself, as the allies closed in on Berlin. I think this song is supposed to represent how Hitler convinced so many people to follow him - the whole song seems like an advertisement. If you want this to happen, all you have to do is follow the worms...

No Picture Michael Average	#3 by Michael Vanderveen at Feb 5, 1989 at 1:11 AM EST
	I think the worms signify the outside world getting in, into his life unlocking the key to his privacy and displaying it out to the world.. (his greatest fear), as told in 'the trial'. The way the song is displayed, these worms.. could signify, in a more physical way, the government/media.

No Picture Klint Average	#4 by Klint flowers at Dec 26, 1990 at 4:12 AM EST
	The worms... I always thought the worms represented Pink's fans. I mean, he is being taken over by them, and the Wall is based on Waters' alienation by his fans. It's always a possibility to think about. This song is basically Pink's dictatorship 'fantasies' showing through. He's waiting for the worms to come-waiting for his fans to finally realise what he is. Waiting for them to hate him so he is justified in hating them back. The Trial is a complete followon of this song. This is the start of Pink's fierce battle with himself. This is Pink's evil side showing through, and Stop is his natural side showing through.

No Picture Dusty Wanna Be	#5 by Dusty Delonge at Oct 3, 2000 at 9:43 PM EST
	Cool at like that last minute of song over the main riff with the mega phone over it. Very moving.

No Picture Connor Rhythm Player	#6 by Connor Fowler at Oct 23, 2005 at 2:34 PM EST
	on the movie with all the hammers, i think what its sayin is anyone affected by the worms is nailed into place and sees what the gov wants them to see while the world around them is falling down, but I think the movie ment that all of our life we our nailed into place while some of us see though the walls that we ourselves have built around us and know that one day the wall must come down but yet fear that very day(well thats 1 of the many meanings i got from it)back to this song anyway its also about how we will eventually not care what the world thinks cause it cant reach us

No Picture josh Rhythm Player	#7 by josh groocock at Sep 28, 2007 at 12:49 AM EST
	Well I'm sure there's some deeper meaning, having to do with Waters' building a wall as diosaur420 said. But pretty obviuosly about World War 2 and Hitler, he was obsessed about it, as you see alot in the movie "The Wall". Wasn't his father in the war?

No Picture †grave† Lead Player	#8 by †grave† f at Sep 28, 2007 at 1:45 PM EST
	Once his character Pink was firmly enclosed within the wall, he was naturally unreachable by everyone. And while he was there, he came to hate those who seren't similar to him, so keeping with the WWII theme, Waters decided to make him hate the victims of the holocaust.

No Picture The REAL Godfat Average	#9 by The REAL Godfather at Oct 5, 2007 at 2:12 PM EST
	Waiting for the worms draws a parallel between Pinks altered state of mind and that of WW2 dictators as mentioned: Hitler "the final solution" and Mussolini "put on a black shirt". As Pink comes off his drug he goes back and forth from a humane state to a more violent being willing to crush anything in his way. In the songs that precede WFTW he goes through a skin crawling withdrawal into a worm like dictator, as they run like hell. The worms are ultimately any destructive force set to destroy anything in its path. The reference to Mussolini and Hitler are here to not only define how they affected pink but how they affected the human condition. "Would you like to see Britannia Rule again, my friend?" is sung in an almost angelic voice followed up with the more sinister "All you have to do is follow the worms". I believe this is to be interpreted as the method for which these two dictators came into power. Pink has a burning fascination with Hitler and Mussolini as he struggles to compare himself in an effort to understand how his farther died. He slowly slips back into reality, his emotions beg for the comfort of home as he ponders his own guilt.

No Picture (DDD Bass Gu Rhythm Player	#10 by (DDD Bass Guitar/Backup Vocals) Jeff Fritts at Oct 8, 2007 at 10:35 AM EST
	*this is not about him

No Picture Jesse Professional	#11 by Jesse Garcia at Oct 11, 2007 at 9:11 AM EST
	is the worms the fat guy on the CD cover for the first disk? he looks to me like he could be the worms or the judge. Also wtf is the thing on the 2nd disk cover? if its something to do with the movie, i dont know want to see it but cant find it.

No Picture Dunnie Average	#12 by Dunnie at Oct 12, 2007 at 1:06 AM EST
	I think you all have this album all wrong. All of Pink's suffering is self-inflicted. He's building the wall around himself and attempting to justify all of the wrongdoings he has committed in his life by doing so. The Nazi sequence is a bout of insanity caused by the drugs given to Pink in Comfortably Numb to "keep him going for the show". He uses this as a chance to become a dictator to his fans... to make himself feel more important and powerful.