if not for the loss of ERIC FLETCHER WATERS, pink floyd after syd would have never been. all of floyd was truly great but waters had the life of tradgedy that was so perfectly conveyed from 1973 though 89. thats why every album from darkside to the final cut was life in theater instead of just pop sounds. brink in the wall 2 is the quintesential anthem for all. remember that before rap, there actually was real music!
one of the most epic songs ever made.............makes me cry, I served in the Marines, and we lost two guys while I was at my duty station. I can't imagine what their familes must have went thru.............
@TBC112 thank you for your sacrifices i am sorry that your friend didn't make it back home you all face the worst of the worst and it is a shame that we don't do more for you i thank you for fighting to keep the rest of us safe
@TBC112 respect to my brother i just came back from a/ghanistan lost 3 brothers so i know how u feel !! six months in a fob in helmand !! massa al shariff my heads pickled !! thank god im home dont want to go back 2 batt the rifles respect to u my brother in arms !!
@bristolcityifcation Welcome home my brother in arms. I was in Helmand too, a patrol base north of Gereshk. I live in peace now. Every day is a good day. Respect to u too ! Take care my freind.
@TBC112 the peace before WW2 was a bad peace while they let Hitler warmonger and tried to appease him which made him much harder to defeat in the end.
The scars of war ripple through the generations. My grandma lost her dad in the war, and in some small way that rippled through my mother and into me. The long lasting effect of these wars cannot be underestimated.
when you think about one of your parents or siblings dying you can imagine clearly how horrible it is and the impact on your family, but when you apply that same devastating event to families of 60 million people, our minds cannot even begin to conceive the full impact of world war 2.
Freedom isn't free! Should we just let every country just run us over? Our presence in other parts of the world is enough to persuade others from even more worse actions. Ever heard of Genocide?! Coward!!!
@StylixTWC yeh lets just blow everything up so theres no genocides all George Bush wanted was money and fame so gtfo and stop sucking that hyprocrital son of a bitch's dick
I think the terrorist muslim Insane Obozo who is currently the 'president' is waiting for you to make a private appearance. Pray to whatever god you believe in that the USA does not name you it's enemy or be ready to pay the price! Fact: the USA is the most powerful country that has ever existed in the history of mankind. Get over it!
@StylixTWC and what is texas doing? yeah they're frying criminals... but some of them might not even have done it but they're frying him ''just in case'' he did it
@StylixTWC Fact: The United States of America is the only first-world Western country who still executes criminals. Fact: During the American Revolution, the Patriots established prison ships in New England where guards beat, abused, and shot inmates (also Americans, Americans not loyal to Washington). While the Staes may not be as overt an example as the USSR or North Korea, do not be decieved into thinking that American Presidents have not executed men and women of their country inhumanely
Criminals should be executed if they commit a capital crime! Not doing so is the reason for the publized high crime rates in the Western World. Prison is a joke, and there is no such thing as 'rehabilitation'. Make the punishment fit the crime and make prison unbearable and you will see crime fall. Give me one factual account of any American president executing anyone 'inhumanely'.
@StylixTWC Wow, you're a moron. Why is it the people that hate Obama are also idiots? Just a lucky coincidence I guess. Better to vote for Bachman is it?
We need an American citizan in the White House, not some illegal drug abusing, left wing (socialist), bow down to the terrorists idiot who lies, cheats and knows nothing about economics, business or how to be a commander-in-chief. Not to mention having an uncle and aunt in the U.S. illegally who are constantly breaking the law, and these are just the ones we know of.
Dude, I love how all you republican americans say that obama is a socialist,
In the rest of the world we'd see him or any other democrat as very right wing.
Or how you're always saying left wing parties don't understand the economy whilest actually they understand it perfectly fine.
Or how america pictures itself as the leading democratic country in the world, while they only have two main parties (both right wing), and it's nearly impossible for other parties to start up.
I respect and appreciate your opinion, but as to why we see him as a Socilaist, what would you call 'Obama Care".
If you are not an American citizen than you may not understand that family, not government, is the solution to the health care issue. Government programs are wasteful and not efficient, let free enterprise reign! The SSN is a good example. I don't expect to see a penny of all the money I spent in that system, yet the president's family is already spending it.
you can't possibly say that the introduction of the new health care system is a bad thing!
before it was introduced, loads of people were unable to get health care because the didn't have the right insurance, and they couldn't get this insurance because they either didn't have enough money, or the insurance company taught they were "too risky". So you think you should've just let them die?
Socialism does not work! Look at how poor the health care system is in countries that have adopted it. The citizens recieve a lower quality of care and have extremely long waits to get treatment. Also, the government, not the citizen decides what is 'appropriate care'. Again the few have to support the many, and this system just will not work. Who will pay for this system? Happiness is not right, only the pursuit of happiness is a constitutional right.
UK does not have better healthcare than US, who are crazy if you think otherwise. The US has the best staff, facilities and level of care anywhere. In the UK and other socialized medicine countries those needing treatment have to be 'approved' for care by the government, not the doctor of their choice, before any help is received. Also, because of the 'red tape' and lack of facitlities, patients are forced to 'suffer in pain' and not allowed to find treatment where they want it.
@StylixTWC Dear sir, health care in civilised country, is not what you would think. The goverment, not the bank, decide when you get health care. In the US, its all the finantial institution that decided weather or not you should be threated. Here in Canada, we do not let anny citizen die of their illness, beacause they dont have the insurances. That is what a true civilised country does. I do hope you kill yourself, with your shitty AR15, Iam happy, with my Chinese made SKS. (Bitch.)
Listening to this while I'm sitting in my room in Norway, waiting for a sign from my friends from Utoya who's still missing. I hope you come home safe!
@pvtsoap262 Eric Waters' body was never recovered. We just know that he was killed on the third and last day of the German 14th Army's counter-offensive along with the rest of his company.
@TheBelgiphile Accually I found out that he was killed by Tiger Tanks or Infantry note that name of the Song but its a sad thing that he died. But with out his death there would be no album called the wall.
Thanks for posting this.I truly hope your bro isn't one of the many who have lost their lives in service in this afghan/iraq confllict!? Love this album and listening to it now makes me think how relevant,tho I wish it wasn't the case, it is presently ! My heart goes out to anyone out there who has lost or has a loved one in the armed forces! xxx
this was going to be put into The Wall, but it proved to be way too personal for the other band members. it was based on the fact that Roger Waters' father, Eric Fletcher Waters, dies in WWII but the only problem with it is that Company C never deployed. Company Y, i believe, is the one that got bombed. in the Movie, However, they played this with Pink, Roger as a child, finding the scroll. subsequently, the Final Cut is dedicated to his father. Long Live the Fusiliers.
its sad how many men died during this war because of theese evil tanks that didnt deserve to be around at the time but the most important line to me is they were all left behind most of them dead the rest of them dienig thats how the high comand took my daddy from me
This song criticizes war and the blatant disregard for human life on the part of military commanders but this song does not criticize soldiers for what they do. This song only criticizes the military command and those in charge of the effort for their lack of respect for the soldiers who do the fighting.
Very touching song! Took me years to find this song. It's on Echoes. Another song which is also touching is: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. i can't remember the original artist, but The pouges done a great job!
War is only pointless for those who begin it. For the rest we have no choice but survive it. Roger Waters as all Pink Floyd grew up in the bombing of London. Had not Britain resisted ... then what? War is the most tragic and despicable craft mankind will ever practice. But as long as men have greed, psychopaths are granted power, we will have to face it.
@shiteetah Finally! A little bit of wisdom you! Unfortunately, most children grow up to inherit adult bodies. They attempt to speak wisdom yet they are continually reduced to the spewing of words that sound poetic and mature.
@shiteetah in a room filled with one hundred, it take everyone of them to keep the peace and yet if just one decides to be a tyrant...then shiiit happens. This is where our brave soldiers are called in....to do what the kids in adult bodies refuse to do...sad but true
@shiteetah most of the band were from Cambridge and relatively safe from the Blitz. Also as a toddler I doubt he would have been aware of the situation. He's a guy with a huge chip on his shoulder due to not having a chance to have a relationship with his dad hence alot of songs written by him about it.
@eistalion, actually, there is.. Is the last line: 'that's how the HIGH-COMMAND took my daddy FROM ME!.. The higher ranks are safe while soldiers are forced to fight the useless battle against Other soldiers who didn't do anything wrong against them!!
OT: this is my fav. Song of the wall, it's intence, heavy and personal...
The song was excluded from the album because it was dubbed "too personal" to Roger Waters to be placed in the album...it is a story about Roger Waters' father, who died in WW2. or at least the events surrounding it.
i find it strange that this song was released as a single after the wall was completed instead of just putting it on the album itself. really a great song.
My father died when I was a teenager. He loved Pink Floyd, and when he passed, I inherited his CDs. The first time I heard this song, I was overwhelmed. (I'm getting misty eyed as I type and the song is playing above...) Is there anything that illustrates the pointlessness of war better than the line
@eistalon At the risk of offending you, I have to disagree. I love the song, love Pink Floyd and am also a serving soldier who has seen his fair share of operations. War is not pointless. Its a highly unpleasant neccessity given the right (wrong?) circumstances. To say war is pointless undermines the sacrifice of anyone who gave their life defending others. I have fought to preserve democracy and continue to do so in the knowledge that it may cost me my life.
@eistalon I got chills when I read this comment. I'm sure your father was a great man, and even though I don't know him, I have the deepest respect for him. I also discovered Pink Floyd when I was teenager, and it helped me get through some really bad times. Good luck man and keep the spirit of the Floyd alive.
"Kind old King George wrote mother a note when he hear that father was gone".
it said
Dear M-m-m-, Dear m-m-rss Wa-wa-wa, Mrs. Wa Waters. I am s-s-so-s-s-sorry to ha, to ha-ha-have to t-t-t-tell you th-th- t-to-to t-t-tell you th-th-is, b-b-b-but...
Excellent song, and your video does it fair justice.
Pity the (fortunately few) idiots whose comments miss the point entirely. The only excuse I can give for those from the US is that we were raised in an environment of ignorance and lies. Some took to ignorance with a zeal hardly imaginable, and they now think they know everything when the precise opposite is closer to the truth.
Hopefully efforts (like your own) to show the truth will change things eventually. In the meantime, thank you.
Beautiful song. A lot of posters below seem to think it's about honouring the Army, but it's about how flippantly incompetent generals treated human life, and in particular how Roger's dad was killed at Anzio due to the bungling High Command. And how the King couldn't even be bothered to sign the letter of condolence himself. This is an anti-war/anti-armed forces song!
@pongnose A lot of Waters' work is done out of protest, rather than honouring. I don't really understand why people don't get that. The lyrics make it all too clear if you ask me. :)
This video is Heartbreakingly amazing! I always loved to hear this song while watching The Wall, but you have taken it and made it real. Thanks for that. Would love to know where you got the images. Loved it. Bless you.
.old rich man makes the order for war.with the money from the weapons we could make the hole planet green again...the universe waits for this time when the people on earth get together as one...we cant leave our home and we should work for this picture.my grandpa was in the wwII...he was allways near crying if i asked him about it.he tooked care of the horses who transport attlerie.he is years dead now.but i never forget his eyes if he talked about it...he was german.may we get peace on earth
This is Roger's most soulful and meaningful lyric he ever wrote and sang, the passion and pain in his voice and in the lyrics is just moving, touching!
@clix411 I'm glad they don't. If you look up "Sympathy for the Devil", you keep hearing how that was in Black Ops. I like both COD and Floyd, I'm glad they aren't together.
such a shame dave gilmores son is the cnt swinging from the cenetaph. How can any son of a floyd band member claim they didnt know what the cenetaph is
@DentricSwifthonor ya i agree i saw the show in tampa... cuz the first time i ever heard the wall it was the movie so i always remember this song being the beginning...
Does anyone actually WATCH videos on youtube anymore? Or do they just come on here to argue?Though I have to admire it in a sick way.I don't believe in shit.
@mfnkingsnake Eh? When did they start showing videos? Are you talking about that damn ad they put at the top of the page? Those're so annoying. I prefer typing in random things into the search bar and arguing on whichever video tops the list.
I am a Nationalist (pure Nazi, not kkk or skin head), and i love this song, i feel sorry for all the dead soldiers of Britain and the Wehrmacht , and i still hear some old vets alive how in Christmas eve the Hitler soldiers and the Allies stop fighting, and got out of their "fox holes" and hugged each other, in the Ardenia. Stop the hate against Nazi, don't be brainwashed by Zionist Illuminati, we are all Humans.
@BigAl4250 I'm not sure you understand what Nazi means. The Nazis stood for the eradication of Jews and for total Germanification of Europe. I know this because my family was there. Most of the men in my family served in the Wehrmacht. All them were killed or MIA in a Soviet gulag, thanks to the Nazis and Hitler's total war against everyone who wasn't "pure". The only survivors of the Nazis "wonderful" plan were my Mom, her mother, and her two aunts.
@jeng3000 I am sorry for your lost ones, they where Heroes of the Wehrmacht. National Socialism (NAZI in short) only goal is the Economical Independence of the Workers, Law and Order, not persecution of non-Germans, that is the biggest Lie told by Jewish Media, the Jews arrested where Zionist Scum choking the Economy. There was 150.000 aprox. Jews in Nazi forces, along with Arabs, Sikhs, Italians, Japanese, Blacks, Berbers etc. The Invasion of USSR was because Stalin was a dangerous rat.
@jeng3000 More people are Dying under Wars with Democratic Regimes we live on, i was in Sarajevo and Kosovo in 1999-2001, along with other NATO Countrymen. Israel is massacring women and children in Gaza and other Palestine areas, but they can do whatever they want because they where "victims", they tried that with Christ but failed there, guess it worked with Hitler and still does on many braiwashed. I can tell Hypocrisy when i smell it. Hitler was an un-selfish Man, and not Corrupt.
@BigAl4250 hippie tree hugger?? fuck no im joining the airborne in a few months and im basically a fascist i just think hitler was an ignorant douche bag
@BigAl4250 he was an idiot. only an idiot would waste money on killing millions of civilians while fighting three superpowers at once. and all the white supremacy shit he was into was nonsense. he ran germany into the ground and we finished off whatever was left. germany has never risen again and probably never will
@thecamelsalesman Have you been to Germany? He took a Bankrupt starving Country to a Super Power in RECORD Time, and USA became stronger after the War, now it's rotting like He foreseen, a half Negrofied and Jewdyfied Country that is, not to mention the Obongo joke as president. No wonder the USA brightest men like Henry Ford gave him support, and USA most thank the Nazi Superior Scientists to make it a real Power, in Nasa and Warfare. Too bad you didn't adopt the social part too, no wonder...
@BigAl4250 It's too bad that you love this song, because you appear to grasp the lyrics about as well as you grasp history. It's about how army generals, leaders and kings happily send ordinary people off to die for their wars. It's an anti-war song; and there's never been more of a murderous war economy than that of the Nazis.Where the hell is the Ardenia? Do you mean the Ardennes? Have you got any reference for this Xmas truce? The famous Xmas truce was in WW1. Hitler destroyed Germany.
Nobody cares how old you are... Not even Pink Floyd, you lunatics!
WamblyWallaby 1 week ago
A MASTERPIECE
pfish100 1 week ago in playlist Flere videoer fra nobodyhome
I'm 13 and I cry almost every time I listen to this beautiful song :') shame that today there is no group like this ...
anaiscalice 1 week ago
Beatiful deep chilling song, but why the literal video? Literal slideshow videos always kill it, Pink Floyd deserves better.
Pouk3D 2 weeks ago
@Pouk3D, I think of it like a history lesson, but you are right a looser interpretation would be welcome. What did you have in mind?
nly89 1 week ago
pain
MrStephenlang 2 weeks ago
to all you men who have given your life for us we love you and pray for you , god bless.......
mathw0001 2 weeks ago
This song still gives me goosebumps.
trimike703 3 weeks ago 3
yes i know,BRICK in the wall. my typing sucks
pitbull121869 1 month ago
if not for the loss of ERIC FLETCHER WATERS, pink floyd after syd would have never been. all of floyd was truly great but waters had the life of tradgedy that was so perfectly conveyed from 1973 though 89. thats why every album from darkside to the final cut was life in theater instead of just pop sounds. brink in the wall 2 is the quintesential anthem for all. remember that before rap, there actually was real music!
pitbull121869 1 month ago
"ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL"
heterogeneoushuman 1 month ago
I lost a lot of good freinds in the Kongo.This song is so beautiful.Never forget...
jesp73 1 month ago 3
Beautiful song & the lad's are still getting blown to bit's away from home it sucks big time, how Ironic..
seldomseenkid100 2 months ago
how can anyone dislike this song???
mindtrap3333 2 months ago in playlist soothing music
The bad thing with this video is the fade out at the end, it breaks the original effect
PitchKucks 2 months ago
wow amazing
ingersollturok 2 months ago
Waters' father was killed at Anzio Beach
BruceDavisCAL 2 months ago
you heard it was about waters dad? he says its about his dad...
mcpoyle45 2 months ago
this song always gives me goosebumps... i heard it was about waters dad
apinkradiohead 2 months ago 3
@apinkradiohead it was indeed. a very haunting tube indeed. Cried buckets first time a listened to it properly
TheReggienaldobury 2 months ago
one of the most epic songs ever made.............makes me cry, I served in the Marines, and we lost two guys while I was at my duty station. I can't imagine what their familes must have went thru.............
Dracanon 2 months ago 3
For some reason I can't not cry when i hear this song. Though for the most part I've heard it enough times now that I can keep from sobbing.
timothybarnes7663 3 months ago
*chills*
ragenFOX 3 months ago
Signed with his own rubber stamp..... sad.
trocthree 3 months ago
if you listen carefully you can understand the words and it is a very very very sad song
brandon10096 3 months ago
Lost a freind in afghanistan 3 years ago. We where there together, i came home, he did not. Why ?
There has never been a good war or a bad peace.
TBC112 4 months ago 39
@TBC112 thank you for your sacrifices i am sorry that your friend didn't make it back home you all face the worst of the worst and it is a shame that we don't do more for you i thank you for fighting to keep the rest of us safe
namelessdontneedone 3 months ago 2
@namelessdontneedone
Thank u.
TBC112 2 months ago
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@TBC112 you don't need to thank me you are the one who deserves the thanks
namelessdontneedone 2 months ago
@TBC112 respect to my brother i just came back from a/ghanistan lost 3 brothers so i know how u feel !! six months in a fob in helmand !! massa al shariff my heads pickled !! thank god im home dont want to go back 2 batt the rifles respect to u my brother in arms !!
bristolcityifcation 1 month ago 4
@bristolcityifcation Welcome home my brother in arms. I was in Helmand too, a patrol base north of Gereshk. I live in peace now. Every day is a good day. Respect to u too ! Take care my freind.
TBC112 1 month ago 2
@TBC112 Thank you
CallousD 4 weeks ago
@TBC112 the peace before WW2 was a bad peace while they let Hitler warmonger and tried to appease him which made him much harder to defeat in the end.
bjames1812 1 week ago
@TBC112 No country has ever benefited from a war
-Sun Tzu
VoodooWeegee87 6 days ago
@VoodooWeegee87
Freedom is a benefit beyond measure..
-Anonymous
xXxXpz 1 day ago
@xXxXpz ... That is hardly true..
hiimgod801 16 hours ago
How could someone dislike this?
mag31316 4 months ago
its good to know that people still listen to pink floyd
deustscheririshmann 4 months ago 36
@deustscheririshmann
people will listen to Pink Floyd until the end of this world
Norfeusz1989 4 months ago
@deustscheririshmann
yeah i totally agree with you, but it's also so bad to know that good people still leave us for a stupid war...
RogerWaters92 3 months ago
@deustscheririshmann Fuck yeah man. Easily my favortie band.
czolkavich 3 months ago
@deustscheririshmann I grew up on Pink Floyd and it is the blood in my veins.
alex377687 2 months ago
@deustscheririshmann i'm 21 years old, I listen to old rock and pink floyd each day, not one skipped
Lebaron1987 2 weeks ago 2
@deustscheririshmann even in a hundred years people will still listen to floyd
kingston0708 1 week ago 2
It was dark all around.
There was frost in the ground
When the tigers broke free.
And no one survived
From the Royal Fusiliers Company C...
wldmrksdrf 4 months ago
@wldmrksdrf Yeah great words, great song!
ThePf2011 4 months ago
The scars of war ripple through the generations. My grandma lost her dad in the war, and in some small way that rippled through my mother and into me. The long lasting effect of these wars cannot be underestimated.
typhoonaaron 4 months ago
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@StylixTWC You are a filth!!
topdweller34 5 months ago
I always fill up listening to this, I've not lost anyone in afghanastan YET but god help me if i do. Pure class music making this.
bossdott 5 months ago
And Water`s son hung from the same flags.
transonicbuoy1 5 months ago
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@transonicbuoy1 -"And Water`s son hung from the same flags"
- not Waters's son ; Gilmour's step son, Charlie.
adventussaxonum 4 months ago
when you think about one of your parents or siblings dying you can imagine clearly how horrible it is and the impact on your family, but when you apply that same devastating event to families of 60 million people, our minds cannot even begin to conceive the full impact of world war 2.
xIBimmerIx 6 months ago
Replace High Command with George W. Bush And the song has the same meaning
w33dweedw33dweed 6 months ago
@w33dweedw33dweed
Freedom isn't free! Should we just let every country just run us over? Our presence in other parts of the world is enough to persuade others from even more worse actions. Ever heard of Genocide?! Coward!!!
StylixTWC 6 months ago
@StylixTWC yeh lets just blow everything up so theres no genocides all George Bush wanted was money and fame so gtfo and stop sucking that hyprocrital son of a bitch's dick
w33dweedw33dweed 6 months ago
@w33dweedw33dweed
I think the terrorist muslim Insane Obozo who is currently the 'president' is waiting for you to make a private appearance. Pray to whatever god you believe in that the USA does not name you it's enemy or be ready to pay the price! Fact: the USA is the most powerful country that has ever existed in the history of mankind. Get over it!
StylixTWC 6 months ago
@w33dweedw33dweed
Comparing Bush to Stalin or Castro or Kim or any other dictator is ignorant. How many citizens of the US have been executed by their leader?
StylixTWC 6 months ago
@StylixTWC cool story bro
w33dweedw33dweed 6 months ago
@StylixTWC and what is texas doing? yeah they're frying criminals... but some of them might not even have done it but they're frying him ''just in case'' he did it
Lebaron1987 5 months ago
@StylixTWC Fact: The United States of America is the only first-world Western country who still executes criminals. Fact: During the American Revolution, the Patriots established prison ships in New England where guards beat, abused, and shot inmates (also Americans, Americans not loyal to Washington). While the Staes may not be as overt an example as the USSR or North Korea, do not be decieved into thinking that American Presidents have not executed men and women of their country inhumanely
soopernoobie22 5 months ago
@soopernoobie22
Criminals should be executed if they commit a capital crime! Not doing so is the reason for the publized high crime rates in the Western World. Prison is a joke, and there is no such thing as 'rehabilitation'. Make the punishment fit the crime and make prison unbearable and you will see crime fall. Give me one factual account of any American president executing anyone 'inhumanely'.
StylixTWC 5 months ago
@StylixTWC Wow, you're a moron. Why is it the people that hate Obama are also idiots? Just a lucky coincidence I guess. Better to vote for Bachman is it?
typhoonaaron 4 months ago
@typhoonaaron
We need an American citizan in the White House, not some illegal drug abusing, left wing (socialist), bow down to the terrorists idiot who lies, cheats and knows nothing about economics, business or how to be a commander-in-chief. Not to mention having an uncle and aunt in the U.S. illegally who are constantly breaking the law, and these are just the ones we know of.
StylixTWC 4 months ago
@StylixTWC
Dude, I love how all you republican americans say that obama is a socialist,
In the rest of the world we'd see him or any other democrat as very right wing.
Or how you're always saying left wing parties don't understand the economy whilest actually they understand it perfectly fine.
Or how america pictures itself as the leading democratic country in the world, while they only have two main parties (both right wing), and it's nearly impossible for other parties to start up.
STimo95 4 months ago
@STimo95
@STimo95
I respect and appreciate your opinion, but as to why we see him as a Socilaist, what would you call 'Obama Care".
If you are not an American citizen than you may not understand that family, not government, is the solution to the health care issue. Government programs are wasteful and not efficient, let free enterprise reign! The SSN is a good example. I don't expect to see a penny of all the money I spent in that system, yet the president's family is already spending it.
StylixTWC 4 months ago
@StylixTWC
you can't possibly say that the introduction of the new health care system is a bad thing!
before it was introduced, loads of people were unable to get health care because the didn't have the right insurance, and they couldn't get this insurance because they either didn't have enough money, or the insurance company taught they were "too risky". So you think you should've just let them die?
STimo95 4 months ago
@STimo95
Socialism does not work! Look at how poor the health care system is in countries that have adopted it. The citizens recieve a lower quality of care and have extremely long waits to get treatment. Also, the government, not the citizen decides what is 'appropriate care'. Again the few have to support the many, and this system just will not work. Who will pay for this system? Happiness is not right, only the pursuit of happiness is a constitutional right.
StylixTWC 4 months ago
@StylixTWC
Why do i even bother trying to get a hipnotized right-wing american to regain his sense?
You just go on with you're life chasing little paper notes that don't actually bring any improvement to your life.
STimo95 4 months ago
@StylixTWC lolwut? UK has better healthcare than the US because we don't let 2 million people suffer in pain because they can't afford to be treated.
Ribbo 4 months ago
@Ribbo
UK does not have better healthcare than US, who are crazy if you think otherwise. The US has the best staff, facilities and level of care anywhere. In the UK and other socialized medicine countries those needing treatment have to be 'approved' for care by the government, not the doctor of their choice, before any help is received. Also, because of the 'red tape' and lack of facitlities, patients are forced to 'suffer in pain' and not allowed to find treatment where they want it.
StylixTWC 4 months ago
@StylixTWC Dear sir, health care in civilised country, is not what you would think. The goverment, not the bank, decide when you get health care. In the US, its all the finantial institution that decided weather or not you should be threated. Here in Canada, we do not let anny citizen die of their illness, beacause they dont have the insurances. That is what a true civilised country does. I do hope you kill yourself, with your shitty AR15, Iam happy, with my Chinese made SKS. (Bitch.)
cripto136 3 months ago
Listening to this while I'm sitting in my room in Norway, waiting for a sign from my friends from Utoya who's still missing. I hope you come home safe!
Stortsavn 6 months ago
your brother was in world war 2?
MrLedZepplinn 6 months ago
:'( i'm sorry Roger.....
GeorgeRingoGirl 6 months ago
this fuckin song WILL change your life
IPiMpiNI 6 months ago
Greatest song of all time.
cristopherkloeess 7 months ago
very good mate! well done on your video ..
RomantiqueVoyage 7 months ago
How did Roger Waters dad die I know he was killed during the Battle of Anzio but how was he killed.
pvtsoap262 7 months ago
@pvtsoap262 Eric Waters' body was never recovered. We just know that he was killed on the third and last day of the German 14th Army's counter-offensive along with the rest of his company.
TheBelgiphile 7 months ago
@TheBelgiphile Accually I found out that he was killed by Tiger Tanks or Infantry note that name of the Song but its a sad thing that he died. But with out his death there would be no album called the wall.
pvtsoap262 7 months ago
what does tigers mean in this song? thanks if someone answer
CKFCDHTOTU 7 months ago
@CKFCDHTOTU It's referring to the German Mark IV Tiger tank.
SilentWingsOfFreedom 7 months ago
All the dislikes must be the high commands relations
Great Song :)
lackeyandgall 7 months ago
Thanks for posting this.I truly hope your bro isn't one of the many who have lost their lives in service in this afghan/iraq confllict!? Love this album and listening to it now makes me think how relevant,tho I wish it wasn't the case, it is presently ! My heart goes out to anyone out there who has lost or has a loved one in the armed forces! xxx
aprilswan2 7 months ago
Chilling
dands413 7 months ago
this was going to be put into The Wall, but it proved to be way too personal for the other band members. it was based on the fact that Roger Waters' father, Eric Fletcher Waters, dies in WWII but the only problem with it is that Company C never deployed. Company Y, i believe, is the one that got bombed. in the Movie, However, they played this with Pink, Roger as a child, finding the scroll. subsequently, the Final Cut is dedicated to his father. Long Live the Fusiliers.
polonium9 7 months ago
its sad how many men died during this war because of theese evil tanks that didnt deserve to be around at the time but the most important line to me is they were all left behind most of them dead the rest of them dienig thats how the high comand took my daddy from me
idiot624 7 months ago
This song criticizes war and the blatant disregard for human life on the part of military commanders but this song does not criticize soldiers for what they do. This song only criticizes the military command and those in charge of the effort for their lack of respect for the soldiers who do the fighting.
TheKerrdaverDogg 7 months ago
Great work with this one brother. Faved it too
INKfectious 8 months ago
what an asshole to fade out
uhfnutbar1 8 months ago
Very touching song! Took me years to find this song. It's on Echoes. Another song which is also touching is: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. i can't remember the original artist, but The pouges done a great job!
nightfireadam 8 months ago
War is only pointless for those who begin it. For the rest we have no choice but survive it. Roger Waters as all Pink Floyd grew up in the bombing of London. Had not Britain resisted ... then what? War is the most tragic and despicable craft mankind will ever practice. But as long as men have greed, psychopaths are granted power, we will have to face it.
shiteetah 8 months ago
@shiteetah Finally! A little bit of wisdom you! Unfortunately, most children grow up to inherit adult bodies. They attempt to speak wisdom yet they are continually reduced to the spewing of words that sound poetic and mature.
danconnected 8 months ago
@shiteetah in a room filled with one hundred, it take everyone of them to keep the peace and yet if just one decides to be a tyrant...then shiiit happens. This is where our brave soldiers are called in....to do what the kids in adult bodies refuse to do...sad but true
danconnected 8 months ago
@shiteetah most of the band were from Cambridge and relatively safe from the Blitz. Also as a toddler I doubt he would have been aware of the situation. He's a guy with a huge chip on his shoulder due to not having a chance to have a relationship with his dad hence alot of songs written by him about it.
derekswan144 8 months ago
@derekswan144 Good points.
shiteetah 8 months ago
@eistalion, actually, there is.. Is the last line: 'that's how the HIGH-COMMAND took my daddy FROM ME!.. The higher ranks are safe while soldiers are forced to fight the useless battle against Other soldiers who didn't do anything wrong against them!!
OT: this is my fav. Song of the wall, it's intence, heavy and personal...
darkdaan 8 months ago
The song was excluded from the album because it was dubbed "too personal" to Roger Waters to be placed in the album...it is a story about Roger Waters' father, who died in WW2. or at least the events surrounding it.
TyleRiemsma 8 months ago
@TyleRiemsma The songs on The final cut though go buy it without a doubt one of there best albums.
kingsman565 8 months ago
nice slideshow
pinkfloydthewallfan 9 months ago
this is the saddest song I've ever heard. There's something autobiographical in there, as far as i concerned...
thedeadliest 9 months ago
What's happened whit your brother?
comediart 9 months ago
i find it strange that this song was released as a single after the wall was completed instead of just putting it on the album itself. really a great song.
62beatles69 9 months ago
@62beatles69 They did this because the band thought that it was too personal to be on the album
mjkl86 9 months ago
this song always gives me goosebumps
Qman132 9 months ago
I want to play this song at my grandfathers funeral
THEROCKINGROLLA 9 months ago
My father died when I was a teenager. He loved Pink Floyd, and when he passed, I inherited his CDs. The first time I heard this song, I was overwhelmed. (I'm getting misty eyed as I type and the song is playing above...) Is there anything that illustrates the pointlessness of war better than the line
"And the Anzio bridgehead
Was held for the price
Of a few hundred ordinary lives."
Hundreds dead for a small piece of ground.
eistalon 10 months ago 35
@eistalon At the risk of offending you, I have to disagree. I love the song, love Pink Floyd and am also a serving soldier who has seen his fair share of operations. War is not pointless. Its a highly unpleasant neccessity given the right (wrong?) circumstances. To say war is pointless undermines the sacrifice of anyone who gave their life defending others. I have fought to preserve democracy and continue to do so in the knowledge that it may cost me my life.
Just my 2 cents.
Bhurzum 8 months ago
@Bhurzum I'm sick of people saying war is pointless, imperialism is bad, some wars save lives.
kingsman565 8 months ago
@kingsman565 Hear hear!
Bhurzum 8 months ago
@eistalon I got chills when I read this comment. I'm sure your father was a great man, and even though I don't know him, I have the deepest respect for him. I also discovered Pink Floyd when I was teenager, and it helped me get through some really bad times. Good luck man and keep the spirit of the Floyd alive.
atoman9865 4 months ago
6 people are in charge of the tiger cages in the Zoo.
BdMdrFckr 10 months ago
@BdMdrFckr Haha, probably the best "number-of-dislikes" comments I've ever read.
Sinriel 9 months ago
@BdMdrFckr more like 6 people rode in a Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. E
:P
h777 2 months ago
"Kind old King George wrote mother a note when he hear that father was gone".
it said
Dear M-m-m-, Dear m-m-rss Wa-wa-wa, Mrs. Wa Waters. I am s-s-so-s-s-sorry to ha, to ha-ha-have to t-t-t-tell you th-th- t-to-to t-t-tell you th-th-is, b-b-b-but...
chamberl 10 months ago
@chamberl
Humorous, but also distasteful.......
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@chamberl
Humorous, but also distasteful.......
robbiejanderson 10 months ago
@robbiejanderson Don't get me wrong. I love the song. Made some Flash animation to it.
chamberl 10 months ago
I'll never understand WHY this song didn't end up on the studio version of the album. It is potentially one of the most moving tunes they ever made.
AdoreTheGlassSpider 10 months ago
such a waste of men , I wonder , did the high command supply the rocks to throw at the tigers?
rolltide292 10 months ago
now if we could just get people to stop suspending logic when it comes to religion - maybe these conflicts would not have to happen
nahtanojrekab 11 months ago
Eric Fletcher Waters was a member of Company Z...
bastropmaddog1 11 months ago
The Ardenne offensive was a hopeless move, it only meant more bloodshed...
Lxaroe 11 months ago
I dont think many could of made a video for this song and done it such justice. kudos to a job well done.
stonepsmith 11 months ago
True story. PF dad killed by a panzer.
transonicbuoy1 11 months ago
For some reason this song makes me feel patriotic even though I'm American...
TheMetalmaniacX 11 months ago
@TheMetalmaniacX lol wtf this isnt a patriotic song dont be retarded
Rnewmanguy 11 months ago
@Rnewmanguy weeeellllll i was high soooo
TheMetalmaniacX 11 months ago
A sad song, but I still like it for some reason. Very brutal war as we all know
evilangal1976 11 months ago
Im so sorry Roger . This made me cry for many years Your a strong man to sing your lyrics.
angspec003 11 months ago
It's a song about MURDER plain and simple.
MassesVclasses 11 months ago
all them heroes fought for what we have today,so you dislikes are probobly insensitive arseholes, they must have been so scared :(
monkeybacon108 1 year ago
Excellent song, and your video does it fair justice.
Pity the (fortunately few) idiots whose comments miss the point entirely. The only excuse I can give for those from the US is that we were raised in an environment of ignorance and lies. Some took to ignorance with a zeal hardly imaginable, and they now think they know everything when the precise opposite is closer to the truth.
Hopefully efforts (like your own) to show the truth will change things eventually. In the meantime, thank you.
mickycisme 1 year ago
Beautiful song. A lot of posters below seem to think it's about honouring the Army, but it's about how flippantly incompetent generals treated human life, and in particular how Roger's dad was killed at Anzio due to the bungling High Command. And how the King couldn't even be bothered to sign the letter of condolence himself. This is an anti-war/anti-armed forces song!
pongnose 1 year ago 54
@pongnose A lot of Waters' work is done out of protest, rather than honouring. I don't really understand why people don't get that. The lyrics make it all too clear if you ask me. :)
davidoff013 7 months ago
@pongnose Bravo, you hit the nail square on the head with that comment mate. :)
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HasAnyoneSeenMyPipe 3 months ago
Great job on the video. Fantastic song.
addcafe 1 year ago
This video is Heartbreakingly amazing! I always loved to hear this song while watching The Wall, but you have taken it and made it real. Thanks for that. Would love to know where you got the images. Loved it. Bless you.
stedymphna 1 year ago 2
If anyone thinks war is a game THINK AGAIN just listen to the words of this track this song touches me !!!!!!!!
cracker2436 1 year ago
It's not the reason why, but to do and die.
4guyswithlives 1 year ago
every soldier has a duty to accomplish. every man at one point has to fight for which he believes in right or wrong
corpralkirsch 1 year ago
.old rich man makes the order for war.with the money from the weapons we could make the hole planet green again...the universe waits for this time when the people on earth get together as one...we cant leave our home and we should work for this picture.my grandpa was in the wwII...he was allways near crying if i asked him about it.he tooked care of the horses who transport attlerie.he is years dead now.but i never forget his eyes if he talked about it...he was german.may we get peace on earth
88qiflow 1 year ago 3
fuck the hunn old men make wars young men fight and die in the wars
TheRabcnesbit 1 year ago
fuck the hunn
TheRabcnesbit 1 year ago
This is Roger's most soulful and meaningful lyric he ever wrote and sang, the passion and pain in his voice and in the lyrics is just moving, touching!
marnold6879 1 year ago
May they RIP
thestrider1971 1 year ago
May they RIP
Hoppskotch 1 year ago
May they RIP
thestrider1971 1 year ago
this should be included in one of the war games such as Call of Duty or even Halo Reach
clix411 1 year ago 2
@clix411 Fuck off.
skovie23232 1 year ago
@skovie23232 how bout no, faggot
clix411 1 year ago
@clix411 I'm glad they don't. If you look up "Sympathy for the Devil", you keep hearing how that was in Black Ops. I like both COD and Floyd, I'm glad they aren't together.
LadyVoldo 10 months ago
bigal who other than hitler do you like,your about as mixed up as the coctail of drugs your on,
holycrusader157 1 year ago
such a shame dave gilmores son is the cnt swinging from the cenetaph. How can any son of a floyd band member claim they didnt know what the cenetaph is
idlewally 1 year ago
Does anyone know if the orchestra version with the sound of the tank treads at the start is on you tube. Thanks
mollymu1 1 year ago
You guys know the story of this song right? he wrote it in memory of his father who did get killed when his company got overran in Italy.
Paladin1441 1 year ago
Just saw Roger last week in Philly. Wish he'd of worked tigers in the wall....great job on the video! rock on joe boyd and the pink floyd!
DentricSwifthonor 1 year ago
@DentricSwifthonor ya i agree i saw the show in tampa... cuz the first time i ever heard the wall it was the movie so i always remember this song being the beginning...
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GabrielleSanfhd 1 year ago
Does anyone actually WATCH videos on youtube anymore? Or do they just come on here to argue?Though I have to admire it in a sick way.I don't believe in shit.
mfnkingsnake 1 year ago
@mfnkingsnake Eh? When did they start showing videos? Are you talking about that damn ad they put at the top of the page? Those're so annoying. I prefer typing in random things into the search bar and arguing on whichever video tops the list.
Joexi 1 year ago
@Joexi Lmao!
mfnkingsnake 1 year ago
I am a Nationalist (pure Nazi, not kkk or skin head), and i love this song, i feel sorry for all the dead soldiers of Britain and the Wehrmacht , and i still hear some old vets alive how in Christmas eve the Hitler soldiers and the Allies stop fighting, and got out of their "fox holes" and hugged each other, in the Ardenia. Stop the hate against Nazi, don't be brainwashed by Zionist Illuminati, we are all Humans.
BigAl4250 1 year ago
@BigAl4250 I'm not sure you understand what Nazi means. The Nazis stood for the eradication of Jews and for total Germanification of Europe. I know this because my family was there. Most of the men in my family served in the Wehrmacht. All them were killed or MIA in a Soviet gulag, thanks to the Nazis and Hitler's total war against everyone who wasn't "pure". The only survivors of the Nazis "wonderful" plan were my Mom, her mother, and her two aunts.
jeng3000 1 year ago
@jeng3000 I am sorry for your lost ones, they where Heroes of the Wehrmacht. National Socialism (NAZI in short) only goal is the Economical Independence of the Workers, Law and Order, not persecution of non-Germans, that is the biggest Lie told by Jewish Media, the Jews arrested where Zionist Scum choking the Economy. There was 150.000 aprox. Jews in Nazi forces, along with Arabs, Sikhs, Italians, Japanese, Blacks, Berbers etc. The Invasion of USSR was because Stalin was a dangerous rat.
BigAl4250 1 year ago
@jeng3000 More people are Dying under Wars with Democratic Regimes we live on, i was in Sarajevo and Kosovo in 1999-2001, along with other NATO Countrymen. Israel is massacring women and children in Gaza and other Palestine areas, but they can do whatever they want because they where "victims", they tried that with Christ but failed there, guess it worked with Hitler and still does on many braiwashed. I can tell Hypocrisy when i smell it. Hitler was an un-selfish Man, and not Corrupt.
BigAl4250 1 year ago
@BigAl4250 hitler was faggot.
thecamelsalesman 1 year ago
@thecamelsalesman You are mistaken him with Michael Jackson or the Liberal there in USA, including you, Hippie tree huger.
BigAl4250 1 year ago
@BigAl4250 hippie tree hugger?? fuck no im joining the airborne in a few months and im basically a fascist i just think hitler was an ignorant douche bag
thecamelsalesman 1 year ago
@thecamelsalesman He was a visionary and a Hero of the West, unlike Imam Barrack Obongo in the White House.
BigAl4250 1 year ago
@BigAl4250 he was an idiot. only an idiot would waste money on killing millions of civilians while fighting three superpowers at once. and all the white supremacy shit he was into was nonsense. he ran germany into the ground and we finished off whatever was left. germany has never risen again and probably never will
thecamelsalesman 1 year ago
@thecamelsalesman Have you been to Germany? He took a Bankrupt starving Country to a Super Power in RECORD Time, and USA became stronger after the War, now it's rotting like He foreseen, a half Negrofied and Jewdyfied Country that is, not to mention the Obongo joke as president. No wonder the USA brightest men like Henry Ford gave him support, and USA most thank the Nazi Superior Scientists to make it a real Power, in Nasa and Warfare. Too bad you didn't adopt the social part too, no wonder...
BigAl4250 1 year ago
@BigAl4250 You're hilarious.
Nazi Superior Scientists?
I won't even bother to argue with you.
tunglour 1 year ago
@BigAl4250 He was a psycopath and a dillusional, paranoid little man with a gift for oratory. You, you are simply a pathetic fool.
LarS1963 1 year ago
@BigAl4250 It's too bad that you love this song, because you appear to grasp the lyrics about as well as you grasp history. It's about how army generals, leaders and kings happily send ordinary people off to die for their wars. It's an anti-war song; and there's never been more of a murderous war economy than that of the Nazis.Where the hell is the Ardenia? Do you mean the Ardennes? Have you got any reference for this Xmas truce? The famous Xmas truce was in WW1. Hitler destroyed Germany.
pongnose 1 year ago