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Amused To Death Lyrics

Artist: Roger Waters
Album: Amused To Death

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

(Switch Channels)
[Alf Razzell:]
"Years later, I saw Bill Hubbard's name on the memorial to the missing
at Aras[?]. And I...when I saw his name I was absolutely transfixed; it
was as though he was now a human being instead of some sort of
nightmarish memory of how I had to leave him, all those years ago.
And I felt relieved, and ever since then I've felt happier about it,
because always before, whenever I thought of him, I said to myself,
'Was there something else that I could have done?'
[Background: "I'd rather die, I'd rather die..."]
And that always sort of worried me. And having seen him, and his
name in the register - as you know in the memorials there's a little safe,
there's a register in there with every name - and seeing his name and
his name on the memorial; it sort of lightened my...heart, if you like."
(Woman) "When was it that you saw his name on the memorial?"
"Ah, when I was eighty-seven, that would be a year, ninete...eighty-
four, nineteen eighty-four."

Comments/Interpretations
by Kerry on 5/27/2008 11:07pm These lyrics are sheer genius!
by Rach on 6/19/2008 6:25am SLIGHT AMENDMENT TO LYRICS AT END: (Alf Razell - 4th line down ...... "instead of some nighmarish memory I had OF LEAVING HIM all those years ago"
by bishalban on 6/30/2008 9:29am yes,we are amused ourself to death by our so called system,civilization and especially the progress of science,as this is the worled of hipocracy we shouldn't be amused toward the death.
by kamal on 7/5/2008 12:13pm very generous from roger water, very grat work; we are really amused ourself to death
by joe akhia on 7/9/2008 10:03am well he always been a very proud man as we all are of him well dear roger hop you keep your hopes high and even if yur back is against the wall.
by Jeff on 7/17/2008 8:45am Amused to Death is one of my favorite albums but it's very sad at times. The Bill Hubbard stuff always kinda chokes me up when I actually pay attention to it.
by GiganticDays on 7/30/2008 1:58am Slight amendment - "memorial to the missing at Arras". It's a town in North East France scene of a WW1 battle.
by Roman on 8/29/2008 2:19am Roger remains behind his wall, even here you can hear him screaming. He's living legend. There won't be an another Roger Waters anymore. Sorry Dave :)
by Frédéric Dekerle on 11/9/2008 6:16am Alf Razzel told about "Aras". I think he told about Arras, a city in the north of France.
by JLGB on 12/15/2008 8:38pm Great lyrics! I always think of this when I accidentally watch bits of some of the stupid 'reality' shows.
by Anonymous on 12/18/2008 12:13am There's more to this than perhaps you realise. There's another level. Keep searching for the answer.
by Jim Charna on 1/13/2009 1:54am this album still rings tru some 17 years after Rog wrote it. In fact it resonates more now than it ever did. A stunning powerful piece of work for sure!
by B on 2/28/2009 8:11pm This album is a masterpiece. Rogers sarcastic humor ledgendary
by Adam B on 3/20/2009 2:47pm I've had this album since it was released and only listened to it a few times during that time - until recently... Since January 20th, '09, for some reason I've been drawn into it and listening to it daily. There is no better album that describes the current American psychy. It makes me want to throw my TV down a flight of stairs and move my family to the mountains and live off the grid. This whole album chokes me up for so many reasons.
by Musky on 4/5/2009 12:38am bishalban, you dont even get it!!!!
by Musky on 4/5/2009 12:40am JLGB, nice you get it.....
by Musky on 4/5/2009 12:43am Rodger has been a fasinating writer always. Its indiscribable. He is like a prophet. Keep it up..
by Leon van Rensburg on 6/9/2009 9:09pm I am a HUGE Roger fan. Saw him in Dallas in about 2000. He was(is) brilliant. He IS and WAS Pink Floyd.
by Zugg on 7/21/2009 12:55am They're both Pink Floyd... Roger's better at the lyrics for sure... Dave's better at the music. Would've been great to have a few more years of them if they could put aside their differences.
by J on 7/23/2009 9:48am I'm really curious what the anonymous commentor on 12/18/08 (which coincidentally happens to be my birthday) meant about another level of meaning. I agree about the album as a whole, but I I think this song is pretty straight forward in it's meaning, although I could be wrong.(I'll be on songmeanings.net next). Amazing album, at times I enjoy it as much or more than any Pink Floyd album. Like Adam, it wasnt an album that blew me away at first, it just hit me all of a sudden a couple of years ago and became my favorite for awhile. I hope my comment was of some use to someone, beyond just amusement. :) Seriously though, this song pops into my head all the time, like a subconscious self-indictment...
by ripmeister on 8/5/2009 6:57am very pleased to see folks still dig anti-establishment artists like Waters. The system doesn't allow for many like him to flourish these days... sad to think of the world we've created. What's it gonna take to bring back deep thinking? Sadly, another world war...
by Kelli on 8/14/2009 8:26am Roger Water's words and music always creates a kind of mournful longing in my soul...I agree, he was Pink Floyd. Simply Beautiful.
by sylicia on 8/20/2009 6:11am My main problem figuring this out is... the memorial bit... did Bill Hubbard get found and was he at the memorial? Or was his name there because they never found him? Cse if they never found him that doesn't explain why Alf feels relieved... I can usually pick out everything in a Floyd/Waters song... this is the only ever puzzlement. Still makes me teary eyed. The whole album does. All his songs are... just a slap in the face. Harsh but amazingly beautiful.
by pabloimd on 9/2/2009 1:12am lo mejor de lo mejor...roger eres un genio

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