Pink Floyd-The Gunner's Dream (Lyrics)
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2010
- From "The Final Cut"-album! Requested by user: raelalaful.
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Lyrics:
Floating down through the clouds
Memories come rushing up to meet me now.
But in the space between the heavens
and the corner of some foreign field
I had a dream.
I had a dream.
Good-bye macs,
Good-bye Ma.
After the service when you're walking slowly to the car
And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air
You hear the tolling bell
And touch the silk in your lapel
And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band
You take her frail hand
And hold on to the dream.
A place to stay
"Oi! A real one ..."
Enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And what's more no-one ever disappears
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
You can relax on both sides of the tracks
And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no-one kills the children anymore.
And no one kills the children anymore.
Night after night
Going round and round my brain
His dream is driving me insane.
In the corner of some foreign field
The gunner sleeps tonight.
What's done is done.
We cannot just write off his final scene.
Take heed of the dream.
Take heed. 
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The way sax continues off from his voice is pure genius.True masterpiece!
Definitely ! I just came here tonight 'cause I wanted to hear that exact part.
Hahaha, same here.
yea
saucewt every fucking time. God I love that sax
Yes, I've always loved that bit, listening to when one stops and the other starts.
That sax is perfection.
there needs to be more sax related comments
Matt Cos surprise butt sax
Sgt. Pepper GIMMIE!!
+Sgt. Pepper hahahaha that comment wins the interwebs
Sgt. Pepper You advance to the next round, Bring a shovel, Chocolate cake, and a tuba, You should already be familiar with the rules.
having been a machine gunner in the army and injured,, diagnosed with PTSD this song with others of the final cut hold a dear place in my heart and will he played at my funeral
Amen... Night after Night...
Sean Michael huh.?!
To the fallen of SAF 44
Respect to you.
Fairplay brov thankyou for your service buddy nuff respect
Probably the most underrated pink Floyd album of all time and my absolute favorite it's a shame more people don't know about this master piece
that's cos it's not a pink floyd album it's a waters album featuring pink floyd mate
+Michael Johnston yes it is a PK album. Gilmore sang in one of the songs and PK still have the rights to it, not Waters. Best album by Pink Floyd, hands down. ❤️
No its fucking not you clown. It is NOT a pink floyd album. It's rodgers waters album his songs all featuring pink floyd. You are clearly not a fan.
And pk????? Pink Floyd would be. Pf you fool
+Michael Johnston wow, sounds like you have some unresolved anger going on. It's okay buddy, if you are sad or whatever, it is easy to take it out on people you don't know. I hope you can get some counseling for it. I'll continue to respect you 👍🏾
Huh, I did write PK. I meant PF, as I'm sure you meant to spell Roger without a D. It's all good bud, that's the fallacy of the human condition.
I am right about the album though, just do a bit of research and you'll see. I hope you have a good day, and let the music sooth you some.
"And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air" Pure poetry
IKR! i couldnt get that line outta my head for days after i heard this song
The lines that amaze me most are _"You can relax / On both sides of the tracks / And maniacs / Don't blow holes / In bandsmen by remote control"._ Not just that the rhymes are great, yet it works as a sensible sentence, and on top of that, the rhythm of his singing is SO good.
It's really wrong that people have this idea Roger Waters is somehow less "musical" than David Gilmour. Roger is a great songwriter and that's that! David didn't have anything whatsoever to do with this song, and it came out beautiful anyway.
+Ben Culture My favorite part.
David Anthony Berrueco yes!!!
The conclusion after that is what REALLY gets me cutting onions everytime. "And everyone has recourse to the law / and no one kills the children anymore". Rounds up this insanely good part perfectly
one of the best floyd songs!
dealereq wow you are famous
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O siema diler xDD
One of the best album!!!!!!
Es buena pero no creo que sea de las mejores
The first time that I listened to this album I was like 16 y/o and I didn’t understand a word of anything of the lyrics, I didn’t speak English but i repeat it and repeat it over and over Cause it sounds just so beautifulnow I’m 30 and bilingual and is just phenomenal in my opinion. Great job Pink Floyd
I loved that story Perla x
Love that story thank you for sharing
This album is reason why I m start to learn English at all
Respect
Music speaks to the soul and the heart one does not need to speak the the language of the lyrics to have it move them deeply, at least if it's excellent music, that's what it does. Great music crosses all barriers, including that of language. I feel the same way about a song Chingon did in Kill Bill part two I believe it was... It literally makes me cry every time I hear it! The name of the song is Malaguena Salerosa.. I had to have my Puerto Rican friend translate the song for me so that I could understand what was making me cry...(because unlike you I only speak one language. I've tried to learn others but my brain doesn't seem to work that way, I wish it did!!). If you have not listened to THAT version of Malaguena Salerosa, I highly suggest you do it's beautiful
"....you take her frail hand and hold on to the dream." When Roger Waters hits the vocal note on "dream" he's intercepted by the same note on a saxophone. Pure genius. It startled me the first time I heard it and thought it was brilliant. Typical Pink Floyd creativity. No one today comes close. If I recall correctly, the entire album is supposedly a true story about Roger Waters' father.
Yes it is. His father fought in a war, I don't remember the one though
John LaStrada I also thought that near seamless transition from word to sax was brilliant. It's the little things like that that set Floyd apart.
Darth10900 ww2
Darth10900 Died at the Battle of Anzio WW2.
cloudchaser07 Thank you
"And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air" pure perfection
Yes! Best line ever, man! I have no idea what makes this so poignant, but it's brilliant!
Yes, I also love the sound of when he says "You can relax on both sides of the tracks". Roger Waters is the finest lyricist of our time imo
And no-one kills the children anymore ...this is my dream
My mother used to be in child protective services in Texas. She loved the Floyd and had a poster that she made on her office door that stated that no one kills the children anymore.
Its such a shame that the song has a point ..... we sacrifice people in war ... and we dont fix the problem we sacrifice them for.
"
We cannot just write off his final scene
Take heed of his dream
Take heed
"
Its our damn duty to stop killing the children ... and ... anyone.
When we listen to this it is important to realize just how modest the gunners dream is.
Jim Peluso I like your name.
Waters Dad died in WW2 in Italy. Probably had a gun. So compared to that, he’s asking a lot, really. He not only wants his father, but he wants his father not to have killed people (what’s done is done), but he’s not going to forget about him cos he was in a situation where he had to (we cannot just write off his final scene).
most underrated song ever
luca gianantoni leave it underrated , that’s what’s make it special ❤️
luca gianantoni Same with every other pink Floyd song
100% Truth! Caine Pamei....
Most underrated album!
indeed my friend
Roger truly is one of the most underrated lyricists.
what the hell are ya talkin abt
He is the master
In my opinion he's the best Songwriter in history.
Underrated? I think his albums did pretty good... there’s a reason for that.
Shut up , stupid bee! UNDERRATED??? Are you the rating bitch?
ME: could you hold something for me?
PERSON: sure, hold what?
ME: Hold on to the dreaaaaaaaaam
Propane and propane accessories i screamed something simalar to a stranger it was:_HEY YOU gimme your heart im comin home. Needless to say ive never seen some one run away so fast.
PERSON: Are you sure about that ?
YOU: Why not ?
PERSON: 'coz it's driving me insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane
I literally heard the line "Hold on to the dream" when I read that.
The band is underrated.
I don't care.
))
That sax is just the most emotional note ive ever heard
Czech your privilege it’s Raphael Ravenscroft, the best rock sax player who ever lived. The Floyd only chose the best.
That "... And hold on to the dreeeam!" moment and the way the beat drops after it still brings me to tears. Every time, it's a surprise how powerfully that hits me.
that scream at the end...... damn
that scream is INSANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
"in a corner of some foreign field the gunner sleeps tonight" he was falling from the sky, this scream is so powerful :(
I felt I had to share this with someone, so it might as well be you guys, it seems that there is a poem written during / about the first world war, with similar wording:
"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/13076
TheRedEyedRaven 77 oh wow that's pretty cool. thanks for sharing 🤘😬
No problem :D
a place to stay, enough to eaT.
what a fucking masterpiece
I love how in this song and in Sheep, they have the singing and the same note on instruments overlap.
thats part of the reason that i keep coming back
Mee too
This sax is up there with the very best of any musical solo... A masterpiece!
The first time I heard this song, I was just walking around not paying attention, it was suggested by Spotify and so I had one earphone in.....just kinda wandering around....and as soon as the "Hold on to the dream" and Sax Solo came in, I just stopped and put both headphones in and i listened to this song over and over again......Such a brilliant piece of work....Love It!
Every time I hear this song I have to listen to it at least 6 or 7 times till I can fully appreciate every subtly of it. but that sax is wow
+Daniel Muller first when heard this song it bring tears to my eye and still do
same, when i first heard the "hold on to the dream" it changed my view of the song
My 21 year old daughter who plays saxophone religiously for 6 years is taken by the saxophone solo from waters voice. It is a masterpiece
I legit just cried
same, this whole album man.
Rhys Leeming I legit don't care
just do one man
I just did also, having a cigarette outside under the influence of some substances. The tears just started streaming down my face.
Me too mate
my dad died im arms a week ago from a massive heart attack. this song used to make me cry cause it was beautiful. but now its almost to much... R.I.P. Terry..
"Night after night goin round and round and my brain - his dream is driving me insane " - every night of my life these past 3 weeks touches me to my core the emotion in the part where he belts out that verse
Song makes me cry almost every time. A timeless indictment of war's tragedy
This song is a bullet straight thru the guts. Actually, the whole album is.
I kind of liked it for some time, thinking the wall was better (and the wall is AWSOME) and one day it struck me: I listened to it at high volume with headphones on in a pitch black bedroom and the emotions kept comming like waves and submerged me song after song.
The insane tension going thru the whole album, all in restraint is almost too much to take. So soft and melancholic and suddenly those drum explosions like a bomb in a quiet countryside waking you up in horror, the intense lyrics and singing with always beautyfull Gilmour guitar solos and heartbreaking saxophone complaints...
My god this is a masterpiece straight from the front! A very very underrated Album. Even if it was the begining of the end for the greatest prog band ever, it now has a very special place for me along with The wall, Dark side and Wish you were here...
I couldn't have phrased it better. The Sax leaves me in tears, and has since the album debuted.
I prefer the Wall but Final Cut is the best hardcore personal album that I have ever heard. Waters genius.
One of the best songs ever written! La voce che trascolora nel "pianto" del sax, musica che trafigge l'anima.
❤️🙏🏼👌🏼
Pink Floyd. The ultimate Rock Band in my opinion. Pure perfection in sound and lyrics.
Never reached befor them. Never reached after them. I love to hear their music since I was a little child in the 70 th. And never became tired to hear them.
ROGER WATERS GENIUS
One of Waters' finest compositions, and arguably his greatest ever vocal performance. Never ceases to move me.
Me, too. Bawling my eyes out.
I've never heard any instrument so perfectly capture pain, as the saxophone does in this song. And combined with Roger Waters, this song is a poignant and beautiful expression.
At first I didn't really like The Final Cut but thanks to songs like this it grew on me.
I want this to be played at my funerals
Many
Brett Ross 😂
epic !🙏 😂
many just to hear the song many lol
Brett Ross. hahahahahaha
I'd like just to thank all the people for some great comments.
Thank you all for being here listening to this magnificent work of art, my friends.
pink could grab and take hold of you like no other rock group ever, thanks for the lyrics
You can thank Roger for that
The best song I've ever heard
one of the best.surely. In this album we have more good songs. like ¨Your Possible Past", "The Final CUt"...
In all honesty, if you really focus on the lyrics of this song, it is sure to be ranked as one of the greatest of all time.
You're right, it's superb
It's a shame this album gets such bad publicity. I agree with a lot of people that this is a timeless classic. We all live under the shadow of the bomb, that's why this album is as relevant today as when it was released.Just enjoy the brilliant work from one of the best bands ever. Peace to all.
Album hit me at the right time,
yep
Every time I hear the sax part I cry. It's so beautifully saddening.
no one kills the children anymore
+AvalonsMessenger Israel still does, and in great numbers too, without so much as a peep from the western world. Maybe think before you comment...What they are doing is a horrid crime in the eyes of anyone with a conscience.
Nadia Marconi 1. it's a lyric in the song
2. roger waters wrote this as the gunner's dream: a perfect world that a veteran of WW2 envisioned that clearly doesn't exist. It's about the mistreatment of the world after a war so brutal that it should have shown people that the consequences of such terrible actions in enough clarity that they never commit such atrocities again. We don't live in the world of the gunner's dream-that's what the album is about. Waters is frustrated that Thatcher dragged them back into war and that veterans are mistreated and that the world didn't learn anything from WW2. That's what makes the song so powerful, especially the lyric about no one killing the children anymore.
So it appears as if it is you who needs to think before they comment.
Well said.
Nevertheless Roger Waters is one of the most prominent and outspoken figures against the apartheid that Isreal commits against palestinians. The sad part is how that song is still relevant so 30 years later. The song is a sarcastic?ironic? one., ever hopeful but also disheartened by the state of our times.
He's talking about the fictional world in which no one kills the children anymore. Not that it doesn't happen. Just the hope of it one day being the case.
Azam HuQ well said
I love the funeral service imagery juxtaposed with the gunner's plane hurtling towards the ground, the saxophone is genius. I've read this is set during & after the bombing of Dresden (the line about killing children an illusion to the gunner's remorse at the innocent bombed in the city). He imagines the only comfort he can offer his family in the face of his impending death is his dream of a war-free world, even if the totality of it is only understood as he is in freefall.
Kurt Vonnegut was a war prisoner held in a freezer during the fire bombing of Dresden. That is what the book the children's crusade or slaughterhouse 5 is about.
I saw your comment 2 years ago and it got stuck in my head and I couldn’t remember which song it was from 😭 it was bothering me so much. But now I finally found it 🥲
in the space between the heavens
and the corner of some foreign field
I had a dream.
I had a dream.
the piano - and saxaphone in this song - just. so. perfect.
pink Floyd....masterful, poetic, majestic,,just brilliant
Most underrated album of ALL TIME.
this song brings me as close to tears as i ever get. roger waters' masterpiece.
It's sounds like roger went from Dreeeeeeeaaaaaam to a saxophone
Yup, that's exactly what it is
I can’t even begin to state how much this song means to me. I’ve been listening to it since its release. It’s ingrained in me.
I get goosebumps every time when Roger Waters vocals hit the note for the word "dream" mixed with the saxophone. Absolutely breathtaking
Waters: what an incredible sense of melody / lyrics / arrangements
The saxophone solo brings tears to my eyes every time.
I can't believe I never heard this album before and it's breaking my heart. All their music touches my heart, but this, I feel all the pain. I agree, when he screams dream and it becomes the sax, I'm like, how did that happen. I, as always with Pink Floyd's music, am in awe.
This song: 412000 views
Rihannas work : 200 million views
We are fucked up :(
+DoritoHazard no it because every year there are more 12 year olds..
Gm f dont worry, im pretty sure pink floyd has the most sold album's in the history of music
😁 thy really f***ed us up while many of us sleeping in day light.
Rihanna is a pretty outstanding artist herself, no need to compare when the love of music is there, and she also has it
that song is cheap af, so radio stations buy it and the average joe gets to hear it at least 4 times a day, with enough time he gets to like the song.
That, and 12 year olds ig....in fact i think there was a study showing there are more kids on yt than adults so dont be surprised ig
"Floating down, through the clouds, memories come rushing up to meet me now. But in the space between the heavens and the corner of some foreign field.......I had a dream...." Wow!
May peace be with all the places suffering from war..☮💙
Pure genius Mr. Waters
I have listened to this song since it came out in '83. I still get tears in my eyes at "...no-one kills the children any more."
The saxophone solo express more emotion by music than what I can express by words in my entire life.
This song is f***ing perfect!
And you are fxxxng disgusting and rude and self entitled as the majority of israelis I know...Keep the f... for yiour ass, moron!
when I got the album in 83 It changed my life. I lived and breathed this. completely absorbed by his lyrics and warmly vocals
The most beautiful song I've ever heard in my life. This song is engineered to make you cry on queue. The second that sax kicks in its like a green light for your tear ducts. Damn this is too good, Pink Floyd is a group that's greatness will never be reflected again, for as long as we are creating music.
Greatest album on the planet. Final cut
Everytime I listen to this I get good bumps all over my body and I HOLD ON TO THE DREAM....PURE BRILLIANCE
The "hold on to the dream" followed by that ravishing sax is top 10 PF moments in their glorious career 👌
What fools would give this a thumbs down? Floyds coda, underrated, pure emotion, no comparisons
The purest genius…One of those songs that I can remember every detail of the moment I first heard it. What I was doing, what I was smoking and the friends I was with. The moment I heard Roger Waters’ voice blend so perfectly with the sax is what sealed the moment for me! I remember with more detail, that night than I do the night I lost my virginity!😉Thank god they both got even better over time!
Today is the first time I listen to this album, immediately fall in love with this song. Just saw a live version of this song in 2006. When Roger sing “And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air” I legit cried, knowing that they both become old and grey. It really touched my heart, I can truly understand why Roger wrote this song. But I just realized that I just a 19 year old boy, smoking cigarettes outside my apartment. Pink Floyd really cure my loneliness and emptiness.
This song is more relevant than it ever has been.
that saxophone solo has been giving me chills since I discovered Pink Floyd when I was 14.
Pink floyd has written so many great songs its amazing any one band can do what they did. Floyd is the best all around band ever in my opinion. They do so much and do it so good. True legends.
this is poetry
the build up to the saxophone is phenomenal
Thing song actually brought me to tears. :'( Hard to imagine it not doing so, given such a saxaphone build up while you're in your bathroom with all the lights off. Such a beautiful piece. Look past all those headline hits. You might just find an under appreciated song so magnificent like this.
I can't believe such an asshole exists as to downvote your comment. You're in welcome company here.
One of the greatest songs ever written .
One of my all time Pink Floyd songs!
That saxophone solo speaks volumes, it is just beyond beauty.
Masterpiece .So underrated.
Such a powerful song, truly an underrated masterpieces. Brings chills my skin and tears to my eyes.
Ditto.
Even though this album doesn’t stand to most of the others, this is a top ten PF song hands down
The transition from vocals to the saxophone solo gives me goosebumps every time. Easily my favourite Pink Floyd song and its super underrated
A favourite from The Final Cut..love Roger...
ITS an amazing PINK FLOYD album... one of ma favorites... sometimes it IS my favorite ...other times is Dark side... and sometimes its The wall
anyway ..... of course its a PINK FLOYD album... i hear rogers sing, i hear david play lovely guitar, i hear Nick plays perfect drums, and whom ever played keyboards on this album
its all coming together as an AMZING musical experience... that we can all enjoy for many years to come....
maybe david and roger couldnt get along... but hey we all love pink floyd so could we at least all be friends and enjoy the masterpieces thoose guys put together for us all :)
4:18 eargasm
Those 15 seconds are definition of Rock music.
Sonny, most of Pink Floyd is an eargasm
i love when roger goes crazy... as he does many times... its where hes voice true power is exposed !!
This is what I want played at my funeral. Sax is just stunning along with Rogers diamond voice makes me shiver when listening to him. This dream is driving me insane. Love it
Does anyone else notice after "his dream is driving me insane" and before "in the corner of some foreign field", you hear Roger making the gunners last scream as he plummets to the ground?
I listen to this song every Veteran's Day and it always makes me weep.
Man, with all this shit going on in Iraq after a million deaths in the past 35 years I just think of this song and it makes me so sad.
And six years later, we're no better off.. but the dream is still carried on.
This album never gets old. I have loved it since it's release and i will continue to love it till i die. It may have copped plenty of shit from the reviewers of the time, what with the fairly fucked up and tortured mind of Roger Waters really coming to light, and life, in both the The Wall and this follow up album, The final cut, but imho, it's pure Pink Floyd, and Roger Waters genius. Especially considering the fact that he put the album together almost single handedly due to the in fighting. It still gives me shivers every single time i listen to it, even without the benefit of being stoned off my head, which of course, is how we used to listen to Pink Floyd back in the 80's and early 90's. Brings back good memories. At least, what i do remember from those days are good memories. There's quite a few gaps there.
+Craig Bennett well said son.
+Craig Bennett I honestly have bought this CD 5 times or so, I'd let people borrow it or would move to a new place & lose it .. etc etc.. but I have always replaced it.. still have a copy.. but you're right, this is the final cut or final evolution of Pink Floyd, & I was captivated by it.. I'd never heard anything like it.. it was their best, & last album..
I'm glad someone actually knows what this album really was about and who Rodger waters done this with little I'm put from pink floyd
on point man
roger waters is a genius
I don't know where I'd be with out this band. All their work is pure perfection.
love this entire album..floyd is my all time favorite band..not one band will ever be able to touch them as artists..their music is fuckin timeless.
I have wrong opinion, probably, but for me, The Final Cut is the best Floyd album. The gunners dream.... amazing,....etc.
Agreed!
It is really incredible but i dont think its the best album, I think it says the most but Atom heart mother or meddle are probably the better two albums with this being a strong 3rd
1. Dark side of the moon
2. Meddle
3. This one
There are no wrong opinions...just opinions...my personal favourite is yet the division bell but i have to listen to all of the pink floyd songs first!
... no one kills the childrens any more ....
Lol
the words to describe how awesome the sax solo have not been invented yet!
gives me goosbumps all over!
A place to stay, enough to eat, somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street......Best studio album ever recorded
This is what you call real music with real meaning and feeling!!!!
"Pink Floyd get's it."
Owen Benjamin
And no one kills the children anymore.
Amen brother bear
Facts @Dave Edwards, keep crushing.
I love that this is the top comment.
I was thumbs-up number 33 Illuminati confirmed.
Big Bear crushing
Lol Owen got me hip to this song too
AND HOLD ON TO THE DREAAAAAAAaaaaaaa - best solo of all time -
you can feel the saxophone crying.. amazing
Great album. One of my favorite songs. I was in germany in 83,84,85, after drinking german beer and smoking hash i would get back to the barracks and play this album. Think i blew up 3 or 4 radios because our shop was 11ov, barracks was 220v. Come in toasted and forget to check the voltage setting. Damn good times.
What an uderrated masterpiece: in the next future listeners will recognise the artistic value of this song
I just love em full stop! ❤️
Chills every time Roger singing hold on to the dream merges into the saxophone. Genius.
My favourite in tracking my favorite album. The vocal into the sax is a musical orgasm.