PINK FLOYD - COMFORTABLY NUMB

COMFORTABLY NUMB

PINK FLOYD

COMPOSERS: ROGER WATERS & DAVID JON GILMOUR

ALBUM: THE WALL

LABEL: EMI

GENRE: ROCK PROGRESSIVE

YEAR: 1979

Comfortably Numb é uma canção do Pink Floyd, escrita pelo guitarrista David Gilmour e por Roger Waters, baixista da banda. Foi uma das principais e mais reconhecidas músicas da banda. Foi gravada no álbum duplo The Wall de 1979.

A ideia da letra de Comfortably Numb surgiu a Roger Waters num dia da digressão do álbum Animals pelos Estados Unidos, onde se encontrava numa situação semelhante à de Pink. Waters sofria de um problema no fígado e teve de ser examinado por um médico num procedimento muito semelhante ao descrito nesta canção. A letra da canção em diversos momentos remete justamente a esse universo das drogas, solidão e desesperança. Talvez no auge da música, nas últimas estrofes, encontramos uma das frases de efeito mais fortes da música:

"(...) the child's grown the dream's gone and I have become Comfortably Numb".

Is there anybody in there?

Just nod if you can hear me.

Is there anyone home?

Come on now

I hear you're feeling down.

Well I can ease your pain

Get you on your feet again.

Relax.

I'll need some information first.

Just the basic facts.

Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship smoke on the horizon.

You are only coming through in waves.

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.

When I was a child I had a fever

My hands felt just like two balloons.

Now I've got that feeling once again

I can't explain you would not understand

This is not how I am.

I have become comfortably numb.

O.K.

Just a little pinprick.

There'll be no more, ah!

But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?

I do believe it's working, good.

That'll keep you going through the show

Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.

You are only coming through in waves.

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.

When I was a child

I caught a fleeting glimpse

Out of the corner of my eye.

I turned to look but it was gone

I cannot put my finger on it now

The child is grown,

The dream is gone.

I have become comfortably numb.