Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (with lyrics)

Musically, much of The Final Cut has little connection with the familiar Pink Floyd sound, featuring little in the way of synthesisers or extended instrumental passages and with many of the arrangements focused around acoustic instruments such as acoustic guitars, piano, brass, string quartets and full orchestrations, although the album does also feature some heavier, hard rock songs which have arrangements and an overall sound similar to many tracks on The Wall.

The Final Cut was Pink Floyd's lowest selling album since Meddle (although it still sold three million copies, and reached #1 in the British album charts). Opinion on The Final Cut remains divided - while the album has on occasion been voted the worst Pink Floyd album in fan polls and is held in low regard by some fans and critics, others have suggested that the album contains some of the most powerful and moving songs in the band's catalogu
lyrics

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this
moment in time
And far from flying high in clear blue skies
I'm spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.

If you negotiate the minefield in the drive
And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall,
Dial the combination, open the priesthole
And if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall.

There's a kid who had a big hallucination
Making love to girls in magazines.
He wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith.
Could anybody love him
Or is it just a crazy dream?

And if I show you my dark side
Will you still hold me tonight?
And if I open my heart to you
And show you my weak side
What would you do?
Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone?
Would you take the children away
And leave me alone?
And smile in reassurance
As you whisper down the phone?
Would you send me packing?
Or would you take me home?

Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings,
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.
I held the blade in trembling hands
Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut.
"Hello? Listen, I think I've got it. Okay, listen its a HaHa!"

If listened to closely, this song can be seen as a kind of epilogue to Pink Floyd's album The Wall. Lyrics in the song refer to selling the narrator's story to Rolling Stone and revealing his dark side, which can allude to the time he spent in self imposed exile behind his wall.

Another lyric in this song tells of a point where the narrator will tell a seeker what is behind the wall, where the words "the wall" are covered by a shotgun blast.

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[Stephan Minger]

by contrast floyd sold over 250 million albums! thats a score! nobody would spend a dime on gangname style cause it's not worth it!

[Giorgio Piracci]

the original name of the album in his demo version was Spare Bricks, 'cause it was intended as a epilogue of The Wall (then the band decided to change the name in Final cut). It's absolutely a Pink Floyd album and a masterpiece even if a lot of fans don't like it. But i know a lot of people calling himself Pink Floyd fan and then i discover they don't like, cannot listen to (or they ever listened to) Piper at the Gates of Dawn (too noisy!)! Fuck you to people talking too much. P.F. for ever!

[Raffaele Morrone]

Quanto amo questa canzone ♡

[warmey60four]

Pink Floyd HD - 1983 - The Final Cut [2011 Remastered] - HQ - Full Album

BEST GUITAR SOLO!!!

Your Possible Pasts - 05m:30s to 06m:20s

BEST SAXOPHONE SOLO!!!

Two Suns in the Sunset - 40m:54s to end of albumn

[Javier La Banca]

People like to eat shit.

[Nick Luburic]

Better than the wall . Like temple of doom

[Musiclysuiciding]

whhhhhhhhaaaaaaat?

[ChronoFreezer]

This is by far the best pink floyd song. fuck the wall. way too over played. Ive never once heard this song on the radio, however they play the wall 4 times every day and I just change it every time it plays on the radio or random shuffle on my itunes. Great song.

[PermanentLuck]

It's better that way, silly! Sssh!

[Lety González]

Excellent pics !!! We all grew up with this. And I agree with some of you guys, this is one of the best Pink Floyd albums.