Pink Floyd Final Cut (6) - The Gunner's Dream

[cdl80000]

MUSICGASM!...

[jaduzzz]

POETRY & MUSIC... wonderful...

[desiLuzbelitak]

The Final Cut is such a beautiful album ♥ LOVE IT.

[KraigTheMan]

God, this song is amazing! The Final Cut is such a beautiful album, I love it.

[patoolkaxD]

That's the real music. Old rock bands are amazing

[SumerianScientist1]

Anyone know what kind of saxophone that is?

[SgtAbbeyPepper]

Can anyone suggest some other Pink Floyd songs like this one?



[happymonsterr]

@SgtAbbeyPepper Try the whole Final Cut album.

[shirin2556]

as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band...you take her frail hand

[tejaxoxosunshine]

Holy shit what is this eargasm I'm having... I'm still shaking.

[bjdplumbing]

Brandon72



[Matt88Sull]

I had a dream

[mrsolausson]

or rather the voice that turns into a saxophone.....

[mrsolausson]

I think this song earned everyone who worked on it a pass through the pearly gates. That saxophone turning into a voice on this song is probably one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. Still my favorite after all these years!

[Matt88Sull]

And hold on to the DREAM!!!

[suyog210]

Gave me Goosebumps!

[nannynicky4life]

if your father dies before your born, how can you feel pain for a man you never met? i lost my dad when i was a baby but i still have my mum and sister. i am loved by the families i work for so.....

[EtherealInfidel]

@nannynicky4life My dad also died when I was still a baby. And what is killing me is the fact that I never knew him. Because I cannot imagine what he was like. It's like something is missing and I will never understand what. If I only knew I could imagine what it would be like if he was alive. But I can't.

[xpotxheadx513]

save this great music and other by voting no to the censorship of the internet

[Misselfilmen]

This song brings me a hidden memory, or a reflexion, whatever....makes me picture myself, up in the air, 20,000 feet up there, just waiting, following my instructions, fighting a war im not involved into, remembering my family, just there, sitting in a dark corner of a B-17G, waiting.....just waiting into the deep cold night.

[SERPENT235]

a wonderful song, loved it from the first time I ever played it

[TheCloust]

its simply amazing how his voice just disappears in the saxphone, this is the most fantastic song I've ever head.

[patoolkaxD]

@TheCloust that's pure magic

[nixymagoo]

4 people have no soul

[nixymagoo]

The final cut is a remarkably underated album that really tells the dark memories that soldiers

had to endure. simply stunning

[1kcarpenter]

Luv this. I lost my father in 1979. I feel the pain.

[SenorSpode]

The child has grown, the dream is gone...

[antimonium2011]

@SenorSpode

The dream was always within us, we just need to find it again, and hold tight to it!

[corey1234556]

take heed of THE dream

[DennMarc1000]

It just doesn't get any better than this. Pure raw emotion. The empty spaces in the music give emotion a place to breathe. Gorgeous.

[cornsmuggler]

And everyone has recourse to the law.

[Gegamel76]

@cornsmuggler not anymore

[cathyschleifniemiec]

TRIBUTE TO THE SCREAMING EAGLES 101st, and our ALL AMERICANS 82ND AIRBORNE.........CURAHEE SOLDIER

[otporan]

i cried and im not ashamed

well played mr. waters

[JaxUp1281]

Apart from it being Floyd this contains one of the most awsome segues into a sax solo you will ever encounter. Ohhhh there goes my spine again.

[Unemployedbillionair]

@JaxUp1281 i don't usually do the whole thumbs up shit on here, but i absolutely agree with what your saying about the sax solo. I'm a sucker for a fantastic sax solo and this is one of them. That being said, I am "liking" your statement.

[JaxUp1281]

@Unemployedbillionair

I must admit to being a little biased in my appreciation of said sax solo.The truth of the matter is that I introduced my ex G.F. to this track and it had the most salutary effect on her willingness to indulge in coitus. Especially when certain forbidden herbs had been ignited and inhaled. Happy days lmao. I appreciate your appreciation and therefore reciprocate in kind.

[Unemployedbillionair]

@JaxUp1281 That is one great reason to have a biased appreciation of a song. Music is such a magical thing, and what a great thing that you, your ex, and the Mythical Mary Jane have a special place for this particular musical masterpiece. For the record, your comment has got to be one of the best comments I've seen on YouTube in a very long time.

[TatooGGill]

@JaxUp1281 When I heard that part I was like "Wtf happened to his... oh it bacame a sax"

[jwillie44ny]

I listened to this song for the first time in 1982 on a sony (tape) walkman in the backseat of my parents car... I remember looking out into the sky and thinking: this is what poetry must be.../

[Z3NBEAT]

I cried.

[Sbrandt68]

One of my favorites of all time! Was a 60 gunner in the persian golf. listened to it all the time.

[cobydduncan]

hauntingly beautiful



[MrDboyle100]

A haunting song,A beautiful song, Waters at his scariest

[6robyc]

As many times as I listen to this song, I always get teary eyed. Waters you freaking musical genius!

Much respect to all the fallen war heroes, veterans, those in active duty, and those enlisting!

[NsmiguelCOD]

but I´ll change the wolrd one day and earth will be a better place to live,

"Only art can change something as big as humanity"

[NsmiguelCOD]

Genius are the ones who suffer and give something to the others for them don´t suffer the same, roger waters is a genius, he is the pink from the wall, he says in this song, "take heed of his dream" he is telling us to make his dream come true, and his dream begins in: "Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street" and ends in: "and no-one kills the children anymore", I´m telling you, I love Pink floyd because they change my life and I´m tired of seing the world this way, and I´m only 15.

[TheTrident003]

@NsmiguelCOD i started listening to pink floyd when i was 14 and had every album by the time i was 15 and now that im 16 i noticed there is hardly any one who listens to pink floyd these days but when u show them some they will love it

[namesrallfuckintaken]

this is honestly the most beuatiful song ive ever heard

such an incredible voice and lyrics

I <3 -A= !!

[rongenman]

well gee whiz....i do not know jack about those boys.....except that i like it.......

[madrugabros]

Enough with these fucking ads !

[principetanguero]

Roger waters voice in its higer expression. "This dream, is driving me insanneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[studious5]

2:11

nuff said

[Suicidalfamily]

This Song Needs To Be Heard 100% Louder

[Yetaxa]

This song is 20% louder

[alexafloydmania]

I STARTED TO CRY AS LOUD AS I COULD WHEN I HEARD THIS NOW.

[keefyd5]

hates Maggie?...not so sure!

[bjdplumbing]

@84heroes1 One of the best moments in the history of music.. Its right up there with Eine Kleine Nachtmuzic by Mozart!!!

[justrob021]

absolutely a true masterpiece in every conceivable way.

This album shows the brilliance of this band far more than any of the other works they had done.

Utterly moving.

[SageofTalos]

@justrob021 It's just such a pity that by this point, Pink Floyd was falling apart :( but at least they managed to make one last masterpeice!

[brainboob]

@justrob021

Not to be argumentative but this album is mostly the work of roger waters, at least the writing of songs on it. For more of how this sound evolved take a listen to roger waters solo album amused to death. It's the natural progression of this melancholy pink floyd sound on this and the wall.

[thatsnotmayonnaise1]

the picture is just fine

[Zygoner]

Anyone else hear the unspoken lyric, starts at 4:34 - "And in the corner of some foreign field, the gunner sleeps tonight. What's done is done"....

"What's wrong is still not right" seems to fit in perfectly there, but Water's left this 'heard' but unsaid. This is the type of artistic gift they showed. Much more impact leaving it to the listener to hear it even though it's implied.

[Zygoner]

@84heroes1 Very well put! Vocal-saxaphone segue. Nice!

[ErikMartijn]

If I should die, think only this of me....

[OnlyABloke]

@ErikMartijn that theres some corner of a foreign field, that is forever england.

[eldorado61guy]

@ErikMartijn I remember that quote. Who wrote it ?

[ErikMartijn]

@eldorado61guy It's from a poem by Rupert Brooke. 'The Soldier' it's called. Roger Waters makes a reference to it in this song.

[eldorado61guy]

@ErikMartijn Thank you.

[lastrada52]

@ErikMartijn - You are exactly right -- the lyrics "in the space between the heavens and the corner of some foreign field." Respectfully borrowed by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters from the wonderful WWI poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915). Brooke would have loved "The Final Cut," had he lived to hear it. I was impressed that Waters knew the quote and was moved enough to include it in his own equally intense work.

[Ema188897]

I think i'd like this to be played at my funeral.

[giupezio]

il sax tenore è suonato da raphael ravenscroft e attacca in maniera perfetta il and hold on to the dream di waters

[cfsotto]

AMAZING ONLY LIKE PINK FLOYD COULD BE...

[KristinaJSpolisci99]

Jesus his shout...incredible this is why PF is my favorite band

[jackwuzhear]

first floyd song i fully learned on guitar (chord-wise, nothing hard about the 3 main tabs used in another brick)

[retrobananaguy]

Ok who else cried to this song? Its so moving and deep and i could feel roger water's pain, especially the loss of his father during ww2. Great song by the greatest band there ever was and ever will be....

[KristinaJSpolisci99]

@retrobananaguy I cried I'm 23 and didn't lose any relatives in war, but like you said I feel Water's pain

[retrobananaguy]

@KristinaJSpolisci99 same here, in fact, my family preferred out of the war, but waters still managed to communicate his sorrow to us. really moving stuff

[satryanYK]

aaaaaaaaaaaaa

[davidpjr8]

the sax solo steals your soul

[yormomisfat]

I havent listened to pink floyd in about 3 years, I listened to them so much that i finally accepted that I needed to listen to something else. I've been listening to bands like Radiohead and all that jazz influenced by or heros, which has been amazing, but a few weeks ago I decided to rediscover this amazing band, and its been the best two weeks of my musical life. This band is THE greatest. God I missed them.

[keefyd5]

who is the most depressing,Waters or Morrisey? love them both but would not take them on a fun day out with the kids n granny,would you?

[captdb2000]

@keefyd5 with Granny is the operative word there my friend.

[moham7ad]

epic sax guy! hi its your cousin Marvin. you know that new style your looking for? well listen to this!

[theflyingmusician1]

'No one kills the children any more' That line really gets to me. This is an amazing song.

[theflyingmusician1]

What an amazing song...

[caquimay]

and hooold oooon to the dreaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!!!! ORGASMIC!

[pontiacslut]

amazing. pink floyd you rule. huge fan even from the syd barrett days. live forever.

[michaelRafailov]

God, the finishing of this song is so GREAT......

Night after night

Going round and round my brain

His dream is driving me insane.

[666eldiablo1]

one of the best song EVER, I cry everytime

[MrMoviemaster26]

The passion encapsulates everyone's soul. The sheer truth to this song is enough to make a six pack, muscle machine of a marine cry like a child. Such power in this remarkable song, the message is loud and clear but also sounds so fucking amazing!!

[Lupusgang]

This is one of these songs that make me want to play an instrument.

In this case it's definetly the sax.

[stevi541]

my best pal was a royal marine and died in peace time with two others in a car crash , 16 years ago , we loved this song lying in his house . a can mind dozing off to songs like this in his house , then waking up n talking bout wot we`d been up to the nite before ... i love you john hardie and your 2 muckers that went on your journey with you . rip

[SlightlyMad1000]

What could ve been said about war anymore ? Listening The Final Cut is enough to hate wars.When i ve listened "When the tiger's broke free" for first time i couldnt stop my tear drops...

[brennanthebrown]

good bye max........good bye ma

[Mr589632147]

Vai ai uma clorpromazina 200 mg v.o. ?

[Mr589632147]

Serà que eu serei apenas mais um "tijolo" na parede ??

[icon3821]

God made this song

[3L1mn8R]

@BIGBOY219900 i know exactly what you're talking about. it's like a drug of sorts, and my addiction is just getting worse everyday, but i love it

[PawelB67]

it was so long ago, but I still remember listening to this album.......I was a high school kid in winter Poland and while listening to this album which was smuggled into Poland, I was thinking, that these f...ing Russian communists will never let my country go...

[joanka65]

@PawelB67

so was I and I remeber that song too unfortunaltely th ecommunist got us but in a differet way if not so the English would be coming to work in Poland instead us going there and to Germany. The song is supper epecially that moment when the voice changes into a saxophone !!

Mateusz

[josieparkin]

@BIGBOY219900 it's ok it is the English way, feel the same:)

[91onemanband]

why say sorry for just one picture, were all here just for the music right?

[UNKNOWNnameDRUMMER]

definitely my favorite floyd song

[ucanleaveurHATEon]

@BIGBOY219900 cause it´s fucking and equaly depressing and beautiful.

[MrMoviemaster26]

A work of art

[poland2985]

Saddest song ever.

[StepanGiga]

A true poetry

[BigRockMusicFan]

@84heroes1 I know right? I was just thinking about, The Final Cut is definitely a Floyd album I'm going to get, next time Im out.

[DLarsenFilms]

2:11 always gives me goosebumps. Amazing.

[xSobhan]

Oh man, it's so sad to see that this only has 150k views. I feel sorry for all the people who haven't experienced this yet. What is wrong with people? gosh.

Maybe it's not them that's cursed, it's just PF fans that are blessed.

[Coolquake]

best pink floyd album ever!!

[VicRattlehead233]

great song

[pardingo]

@BIGBOY219900 it's probably because its pretty much the cause to pink floyds break up :(

[TheOgo1971]

floyd az got 2 b in da top 5 bands ov all time any1 disagree or agree i was privaliged 2 b at the rite age 2 grow up with them ----frank from liverpool england

[monteirooamis]

BEAUTIFUL SOUND OF PINK FLOYD !!!!

[lifternate]

Some of the most beautiful and moving lyrics Roger has ever written. An excellent song that moves me every time I hear it.

[OneCrazyGuy1000]

*_____* great song

[700JackBlack]

My favorite song of all album.

[asderso]

KMRakaKAT,  thank you.

[woodster402001]

i love floyd before and after. But I think roger waters added so much to the band. AS did gilmore.But i prefer pink floyd and its not pink floyd without roger waters. Im just sorry there was such a nasty breakup.and we were left like children in a divorce

[TALCE1]

@woodster402001 You hit the nail right on the head. Amen.

[bl4nkd4hli4]

@BIGBOY219900 I know exactly how you feel my friend...played the damn thing to death during the most downbeat time of my life and I still have to say it's one of the greatest pieces of music ever produced. :')

[donnwayne]

Mine ,also

[julman454]

i love paranoid eyes, the final cut, not now john, the gunners dream best album ever

[TheKeytoRock]

Roger Waters was so good! I miss Pink Floyd with (for awhile, Syd Barret), Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright. This is one of their best songs! The first time I heard this, during the 'no one kills the children' part, I noticed how bad our world is. I was crying... my brother comes up to me and asks why I cry and I said "Our world is just so messed up!"

[KnucklesRT]

My first cassette tape and CD, still like it today.

[mikesherriv]

@BIGBOY219900 : MINE TOO!

[hawkbad360]

I cried at the sax solo.. :(

[cypresscoach]

@BIGBOY219900 Stop listening. It'll push you over the edge. I haven't listened to this album for over 20 years. Now that I'm over my depression, it's just music. If you feel like dying, you can identify with Water's depression. Bad combination.

[blackblack539]

4:15 i really want to cry! One of the best songs in the world...

[cryingskies77]

Just not the same effect unless its played on a 12in turned up so loud that when Waters says HOLD ON TO THE DREAM, the shelves shake.

[Z3NBEAT]

"Hold on to the dream"

[rgaleny]

@Z3NBEAT AMEN BROTHER.

[billyfloyd1975]

Great album but It's clear Roger Waters had some serious "daddy issues"!



[mentality1975]

i love my mum ,shes wonderfull

[mentality1975]

i love my ,shes wonderfull

[buddy39914]

This is probably the best sax solo ever. The way Roger's voice turns to the sax is just epic.

[PringDaddyPring]

@buddy39914

oh man so true!!!! Pink Floyd/Waters are equal parts musicians as they are producers... Best produced albums of any time... The sound effects are an ultimate floyd staple.. Love it!!! On the wall, who can't repeat all the spoken word/tv lines? - "there's room in your bakery, thought you'd like to know" is my personal favorite, haha

[PringDaddyPring]

@PringDaddyPring

this "roman meal bakery*'haha

[Nowhereman10]

Two maniacs blew holes in the bandsmen by remote control.

[CarlHislop]

@BIGBOY219900 maybe a realisation that you share/shared the same political views as Roger? just a suggestion

[xSobhan]

I love how he says "DREAAAAAAAAAAAA and then the sax finishes it for him.

God they are geniuses.

[tonyteb]

@xSobhan I KNOW ITS CRAZY GOOD

[drow809]

420 likes

[IamareFilms]

There's just something about the sound of wind and a piano... it's hauntingly beautiful.

[angspec003]

Waters is god

[rayjohnson07734]

Dat Sax.

[scitsalcoryp]

this soong is immense

[TheDerekCarroll]

One of my favourite tracks off one of my all time favourite albums.

[DrewAmante]

In trying to figure out why this album never hit it big??? Some of the most powerful songwriting I've ever heard.

[ZaireBetter]

@DrewAmante

Because it was more of a Roger Waters album instead of a Pink Floyd album.

[ff75ef]

@DrewAmante

because dark side of the moon was so much better dude

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

@DrewAmante Yeah, I've always wondered that. It's a great album. But it really is more of a Waters' solo album, like someone else answered. But for me, it's the last Floyd album. I totally take his side in the whole break-up dispute. Gilmour is a great, great guitarist, but Waters IS Floyd. All their classic albums, it was his vision. It should've ended when he decided. Now they sell out arenas playing his old songs, his solo material barely gets any attention. Shame.

[echo680]

@MckyMseNTarotCrds FWIW I agree with u it is more like a Waters' solo album. I think tho P.F. was NOT Waters & FWIW with PF that the sum (musically) was greater than any of the band's parts, eg Dark Side. I just find waters solo stuff & this too bleak-his voice (solo) also. His lyrics in Dark Side tho are IMHO some of the best writing-by anyone, ever. I sympathise with Gilmour saying "We got rid of Old Misery Guts and (now) we can do what we feel like". But then I prefer Division Bell to this

[echo680]

@MckyMseNTarotCrds ( my final thought on what you said re Water's being Pink Floyd, I always think of first Dave Gilmour solo album which, a personal opinion of course, sounds to me much more like a Pink Floyd album than this does. but as I say, each to his own )

[Dojack]

"NIGHT AFTER NIGHT! GOING ROUND' AND ROUND' MY BRAIN! HIS DREAM IS DRIVING ME INSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNEEEE!"

Gives me chills every time, especially how you can still hear the scream after it goes into the next part of the verse.

[thewind74]

2:15

[zeppelinhead1]

the sax solo gives me chills