![]() The whole album seems to indicate a sort of existential despair, at least in my opinion. This seems to be the main point being made in the song, since it is emphasized at the crescendo's and final lines of verses. In the following verse, on the last line the phrase "We're going nowhere" seems to indicate Gilmour's rational view of no afterlife that there is no purpose to life because once you die you lose your existence for all eternity. In my mind the phrase "Where do we go from here" means, where do we go after life? The fact that this lyric is cited at the last line of the verse also indicates that this is the ultimate point the point being progressed towards which Gilmour is trying to make. Immediately following the single entitled "Coming back to life" I believe David Gilmour was going through existential despair and anguish upon writing this album. My interpretation of this song pertains largely to death. Later in the song, when the chorus constantly asks 'Why won't you talk to me?' and it's randomized noises instead of a returning voice, it's him trying to find the voice he can't use, which is why the final words of the song is 'Make sure, we keep talking.' This entire song is about the secondary depressive episode someone could have after a relationship and how they typically keep their sadness to themselves. 'It doesn't have to be like this, all we need to do, is to make sure, we keep, talking.' is his way of coping with it all, if he stays busy, he can't feel saddened because his mind is preoccupied with something else. 'Where do we go from here?' is him trying to find another way to get out of the spike, trying to keep himself alive before he does something irrational because of his sorrow. 'I feel like I'm drowning' is him expressing how he feels, trapped in a sea full of sadness and sorrow, trying to rise above the waves but they keep coming back stronger and stronger. ![]() ![]() :)Īfter the song 'Coming Back To Life', which is about someone coming back to life after a relationship had failed, this is a second depressive strike that can hit someone straight after they see how their ex is doing. I feel the song just describes a particular situation in which the person has to keep talking to be perceived as a sane human. I was just expressing the background mindset of the socially awkward person. I know none of that has been spoken about in the song. It's not his choice, he can't help it, it's punishment either way, and that is why it sucks. Now he is one of those poor weird loners. Well, or maybe, after all that, he just gives up and sits in the corner where no one can bother him. All that anxiety eats away at his insides. He loses hope but keeps on continuing with a crippled soul inside, feeling painfully self-conscious at the same time, himself judging every step he takes, every work he utters, ever careful, as if someone might lethally attack him. He tries and tries again, but every once in a while one of them cracks a joke about him and he feels humiliated. What choice does he have? Humans need approval. He feels ignored, but desperately tries to fit in anyway. He subsequently feels outcasted due to his shy and sensitive nature. By social occassion I mean literally any kind of event in which that person meets new people. I feel, this song tells us about the extreme anguish a socially awkward person has to go through during a social occassion.
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