Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home a little place of their own
The Fletcher memorial home
For incurable tyrants and kings
And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit t.v.
To make sure they're still real
It's the only connection they feel
"ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Reagan and Haig
Mr. begin and friend mrs. thatcher and paisley
Mr. brezhnev and party
The ghost of mccarthy
The memories of nixon
And now adding colour a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati"
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect
They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles,
And amuse themselves playing games for a while
Boom boom, bang bang lie down you're dead
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favourite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the fletcher memorial home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb
Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied
1/6/2005 - 15:08
LA CASA COMMEMORATIVA DI FLETCHER
Portate via tutti i vostri bambini troppo cresciuti da qualche parte
E costruite loro una casa ,un posto piccolo tutto per loro
La Fletcher Memorial Home
Per re e tiranni incurabili
E potranno apparire a se stessi
Su una tv a circuito chiuso
Assicurandosi di essere ancora autentici
E' la sola connessione che conoscono
"Signore e signori,diamo il benvenuto a Reagan e Haig
Signor Begin e amici,la signora Thatcher e fronzoli
Signor Breznev e compagni
Il fantasma di McCarthy
Le memorie di Nixon."
E ora, tanto per aggiungere colore, un po' di latino-americani
Inscatolatori di carne Glitterati"
Si aspettano che li trattiamo con un certo rispetto
Si possono lucidare le medaglie e intensificare i loro sorrisi,
E per un pò si divertiranno a giocare
Bum, bum, bang, bang, cadi sei morto.
Al sicuro sotto lo sguardo fisso di un freddo occhio di vetro
Con i loro giocattoli preferiti
Saranno bravi ragazzi e ragazze
Nella Fletcher Memorial Home per i coloniali
Incapaci di vivere e abbracciare
Ci siamo tutti?
Vi state divertendo?
Adesso la soluzione finale può essere attuata
1/6/2005 - 15:15
Roger Waters-David Gilmour
Album: "The Final Cut"
Il disco intero è dedicato alla memoria di Eric Fletcher Waters (1913-1944), il padre di Roger Waters che perse la vita combattendo durante la seconda guerra mondiale, nel corso della battaglia di Anzio nel gennaio 1944 (si vedano anche Us And Them e When The Tigers Broke Free). Waters aveva appena quattro mesi, e quindi non ebbe mai la possibilità di conoscere suo padre.
Un'introduzione all'album si trova nel commento alla prima canzone, The Post-War Dream.
The song deals with Roger Waters' personal views on the Falklands War, mentioning many world leaders by name, including Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, suggesting that these "colonial wasters of life and limb" be segregated into a specially-founded retirement home. It labels all the world leaders as "overgrown infants" and "incurable tyrants", and suggests that they are incapable of understanding anything other than violence, or their own visages on a television screen.
Its concluding lyrics have the narrator collect all of the "tyrants" into the Home, and apply "the Final Solution", i.e. having them all gassed to death, presumably to keep them from causing any more chaos and death. This ties into the nihilistic themes of the album in its entirety, which concludes with a song describing nuclear armageddon as mankind's ultimate fate. As it is placed on the album, it is bracketed by songs that likewise deeply criticize the Falklands War. Waters perceived the conflict to sum up the betrayal of the British soldiers who fought and died in World War II, and that the lives of British and Argentine soldiers were being used as political pawns—for example, that Margaret Thatcher's decision to go to war was, in his eyes, designed to give her a much-needed boost in popularity. In the song he also briefly touches on communism and pre-meditated dictatorship by mentioning Joseph McCarthy "the ghost of McCarthy"
Fletcher in the name of the song is in honour and remembrance of Roger Waters' father, Eric Fletcher Waters, who died during the Second World War in Anzio.
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