Roger Waters - amused to death

A video interpretation of Amused to Death, the title track of the brilliant album by Roger Waters. Thrown together from clips and photos aquired from wherever. Also on my video selection, from the same album an interpretation of "what god wants" pt3.... worth a watch if you're into RW.
Enjoy.

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 am I 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 ohhed 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
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on 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

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[MoondogGuitarist]

What memorial is the guy at the end referring too?

[johnnysarthouse]

@MoondogGuitarist it's the memorial to the missing soldiers at arras in northern france...

[MrKristenAmy]

I think it's lovely!

[SolinSD1]

No he doesn't. Who knows. Maybe he'll get bored, or get a bit older and realize there's no reason to keep anything to himself, screw the sales figures.

[SRS6571]

depressing man...he doesn't need the cash.

[SolinSD1]

@SRS6571 yea, but I'm not even sure he cares at this point. If he'd done something even 10 years ago, I'd be psyched about the possibility of another album. But after 20 years---that's pretty much it.

[SRS6571]

@SolinSD1 That's my personal favorite. Could've worked on radio.

[SolinSD1]

yea, maybe Watching TV would've been a better call for a single, but I don't know who decides that, the musician or the record company--the latter I'd bet.

[SRS6571]

Three Wishes........way too slow and mellow for the airwaves, no top-40 crowd would go for that.

[SolinSD1]

3 wishes was the other single, don't think there was a third, not sure though.

[SolinSD1]

I think What God Wants part 1 was the first single...i agree---not radio friendly unless you're really into his material.