Amused to death

"The species has amused itself to death"

Today Roger Waters turned 69! Yes it is his birthday, and the best way I found to celebrate this man, was to write a little about him and one of his wonderful song "Amused to death". The song is to be found on the album with the same name. I know I should have celebrating him with a glass of wine and his music on the stereo. But since I'm not feeling too good, I'm gonna skip the wine, but the music will still be playing.

For my birthday this year (in june) I got a happy birthday signed picture of him, and it made me so happy, and I wish I could do something really special for him too! But I reckon he wouldn't appreciate a signed picture of me as much as I did appreciate the picture of him. So that's not a good idea! So I'll just celebrate the day with his music!

Live in Oslo 2011

Back to the music! The album "Amused to death" was released in 1992, and it was Rogers third solo studio album. There are a few songs on this album that I loved at once, and this is one of them! My parents had this live dvd "In the flesh" and this song is on that dvd! There is something so powerful and true about this song. It's just wonderful. The album is, like many others, a complaint of the politics, war, all the bad influence you get through the television etc. The song is dedicated to Bill Hubbard, who died in world war 1. At the end of this song, you can hear a voice talking, and that voice is Alf Razzle's. He was in world war 1, and he had to leave a dying Hubbard in the war.

Snowy White and Roger Waters

The song start with the text "Doctor doctor", and that is the same as Rogers very first song "Take up that stetescope and walk". Facinating! 

Very well, here's a video from "In the flesh" where they perform this song (at the end there are clips of Alf Razzle), and the lyrics will apear under the film. Enjoy.

And happy birthday Roger Waters!!! :0)

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen Ooh western woman Ooh western girl News hound sniffs the air When Jessica Hahn goes down He latches on to that symbol Of detachment Attracted by the peeling away of feeling The celebrity of the abused shell the belle Ooh western woman Ooh western girl And the children of Melrose Strut their stuff Is absolute zero cold enough And out in the valley warm and clean The little ones sit by their TV screens No thoughts to think No tears to cry All sucked dry Down to the very last breath Bartender what is wrong with me Why I am so out of breath The captain said excuse me ma'am This species has amused itself to death Amused itself to death Amused itself to death We watched the tragedy unfold We did as we were told We bought and sold It was the greatest show on earth But then it was over We oohed and aahed We drove our racing cars We ate our last few jars of caviar And somewhere out there in the stars A keen-eyed look-out Spied a flickering light Our last hurrah And when they found our shadows Groups 'round the TV sets They ran down every lead They repeated every test They checked out all the data in their lists And then the alien anthropologists Admitted they were still perplexed But on eliminating every other reason For our sad demise They logged the only explanation left This species has amused itself to death No tears to cry No feelings left This species has amused itself to death Amused itself to death