Pink Floyd, The Final Cut, album cover

The Final Cut

Pink Floyd

Label: Columbia
Release: February 26, 1983
Rating: 3.0/5
Album time: 43:19

Southampton Dock

Track #9 | Time: 02:08 | Composer: Waters | Report | Print | Up^

The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking
He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
In his youth or a dream, he can't be precise
He's chained forever to a world that's departed
It's not enough, it's not enough
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Get Your Filthy Hands off My Desert

Track #7 | Time: 01:16 | Composer: Waters | Report | Print | Up^

The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You shuffle in gloom of the sickroom
And talk to yourself as you die.
Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest.
You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye:
Eighty years, with luck, or even less.
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The Fletcher Memorial Home

Track #8 | Time: 04:12 | Composer: Waters | Report | Print | Up^

take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial
home for incurable tyrants and kings
and they can appear to themselves every day
on closed circuit t.v.
to make sure they're still real
it's the only connection they feel
"ladies and gentlemen, please welcome reagan and haig
mr. begin and friend mrs. thatcher and paisley
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