Amused to Death (Live)-Roger Waters

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[00:00.00]Amused to Death (Live) - Roger Waters
[01:43.27]Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
[01:51.27]This supermarket life is getting long
[01:59.27]What is the heart life of a colour TV
[02:07.08]What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
[02:23.85]Ooh western woman
[02:31.23]Ooh western girl
[02:39.79]News hound sniffs the air
[02:42.47]When Jessica Hahn goes down
[02:48.48]He latches on to that symbol
[02:50.78]Of detachment
[02:53.48]Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
[03:05.68]The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
[03:20.07]Ooh western woman Ooh western girl Ooh western woman
[03:44.20]Ooh western girl
[03:52.95]And the children of Melrose
[03:54.07]Strut their stuff
[03:56.51]Is absolute zero cold enough
[04:00.45]And out in the valley warm and clean
[04:04.57]The little ones sit by their TV screens
[04:09.27]No thoughts to think
[04:13.33]No tears to cry
[04:16.52]All sucked dry
[04:18.95]Down to the very last breath
[04:24.79]Bartender what is wrong with me
[04:29.55]Why am I so out of breath
[04:32.98]The captain said excuse me ma'am
[04:36.98]This species has amused itself to death
[04:41.33]Amused itself to death
[04:49.05]Amused itself to death
[04:57.36]We watched the tragedy unfold
[05:03.48]We did as we were told
[05:06.98]We bought and sold
[05:08.09]It was the greatest show on earth
[05:10.73]But then it was over
[05:13.66]We ohhed and aahed
[05:14.52]We drove our racing cars
[05:18.21]We ate our last few jars of caviar
[05:21.83]And somewhere out there in the stars
[05:24.83]A keen-eyed look-out
[05:25.29]Spied a flickering light
[05:28.76]Our last hurrah Our last hurrah
[05:38.39]And when they found our shadows
[05:42.33]Grouped around the TV sets
[05:46.08]They ran down every lead
[05:49.89]They repeated every test
[05:54.32]They checked out all the data on their lists
[06:02.20]And then the alien anthropologists
[06:06.89]Admitted they were still perplexed
[06:10.14]But on eliminating every other reason
[06:13.93]For our sad demise
[06:18.61]They logged the only explanation left
[06:23.86]This species has amused itself to death
[06:36.17]No tears to cry no feelings left
[06:43.04]This species has amused itself to death
[07:01.73]Years later I saw Bill Hubbard's name on the memorial to the missing
[07:07.42]At Aras
[07:19.04]And I when I saw his name I was absolutely transfixed it
[07:27.35]Was as though he was now a human being instead of some sort of
[07:33.54]Nightmarish memory of how I had to leave him all those years ago
[07:51.35]And I felt relieved and ever since then I've felt happier about it
[07:56.29]Because always before whenever I thought of him I said to myself
[08:02.42]Was there something else that I could have done
[08:16.29]And that always sort of worried me And having seen him and his
[08:24.16]Name in the register as you know in the memorials there's a little safe
[08:29.29]There's a register in there with every name and seeing his name and
[08:33.99]His name on the memorial it sort of lightened my heart if you like
[08:55.92]When was it that you saw his name on the memorial
[09:01.35]Ah when I was eighty-seven that would be a year ninete eighty-
[09:05.23]Four nineteen eighty-four