Roger Waters

Apparently they were travelling abroad And they picked up some hitchhikers...drill Wake up you're dreaming...what...you're dreading We were moving away from the border Uh what border? Have a nice day...uh...have a nice day We were moving away from the...

So I stood by the roadside The soles of my running shoes gripping the tarmac Like gunmetal magnets Fixed on the front of her Fassbinder face Was the kind of a smile That only a rather dull child could have drawn While attempting a graveyard in the moonli...

Sleep Sleep I know that I'm only dreaming Leave her alone..get out..out..get out of my house Through closed eyes I see West German skies on the ceiling And I want to get back To the girl with the rucksack To feel her flaxen hair I want to be there See...

For the first time today I help her naked body next to mine In this hotel overlooking the Rhine I made her mine Ooh babe...ooh babe Come with me and stay with me Please stay with me Uh...what is it? Stay with me Stay with me Stay with me No... Stay with me For...

Hey... girl Take out the dagger And let's have a stab at the sexual revolution Hey girl Let freedom for all be our rallying call Tomorrow lets make... our new resolution Yeah, but tonight lie still While I plunder your sweet grave And remember Only th...

I just cowered in the corner My pyjama coat over my head And she smiled as she finished her sandwich And her cold eyes fixed me to my dark history As she brushed the remains Of our love from the bed And when she had turned back the covers When all of the praye...

As cars go by I cast my mind's eye Over back packs on roof racks Beyond the horizon Where dream makers Working white plastic processors Invite the unwary To reach for the pie in the sky Go fishing my boy! We set out in the spring With a trunk full of books ab...

For the first time today I feel it's really over You were my everyday excuse For playing deaf, dumb and blind Who'd have ever thought This was how it would end for you and me To carry my own millstone Out of the trees And I have to admit I don't like it a bit...

Hey kid, you looking for a lift?...Get on up here How's it going good buddy? I nailed ducks to the wall Kept my heart in dark ruins I built bungalows all over the hills Dunroamin, duncarin, dunlivin Took my girl to the country To sleep out under the moon Next...

An angel on a Harley Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone Puts his bike up on it's stand Leans back and then extends A scarred and greasy hand...he said How ya doin bro?...where ya been?...where ya goin'? Then he takes your hand In some strange Califor...

Hello...you wanna cup of coffee? I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee? Ok you take cream and sugar? In truck stops and hamburger joints In Cadillac limousines In the company of has-beens And bent-backs and sleeping forms On pavement steps In libra...

And the moment of clarity Faded like charity does Sometimes I opened one eye And I put out my hand just to touch your soft hair To make sure in the darkness that you were still there And I have to admit I was just a little afraid, oh yeah But then... I had a l...

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 latche...

We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them, kids, alone. Hey, Teacher, leave them, kids, alone! All in all it's just another brick in the wall. All in all you're just another brick...

Daddy's flown across the ocean Leaving just a memory A snapshot in the family album Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what did you leave behind for me? All in all it was Just a brick in the wall All in all it was All just bricks in the wall 

I don't need no arms around me And I don't need no drugs to calm me I have seen the writing on the wall Don't think I need anything at all No, no, don't think I need anything at all All in all it was All just the bricks in the wall All in all you were All jus...

Are you blowing like a bird in a gale? Does the pain of your loss seep into your feathers like rain? Do the bars of your cage feel low or cold to the touch? Were my caresses too gentle, did I love you too much The dog is scratching at the door The boy is...

Breathe in the air Make for the meadow and savour the grass while it lasts By and by Spidery fingers of industry reach for the sky Brick upon brick, stone upon stone they grow Choking the atmosphere, oh, so incredibly slowly Sulphur and carbon and hydrog...

Bring the boys back home Bring the boys back home Don't leave the children on their own Bring the boys back home Don't leave the children on their own Bring the boys back home 

Sometimes I stare at the night sky See them stars a billion light years away And it makes me feel small like a bug on a wall Who gives a shit anyway? Who gives a shit anyway? When World War II was over Though the slate was never wiped clean We could ha...

Cry, Baby, cry Grow, Baby, grow Stand on your own Holidays and happy days at home Seaside, bike ride, fun land, hot sand, childhood floating by Wonder why I feel so shy when you are passing by The years of love and wine Pass by the magic eye Good time, lifetim...

Hello Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone at home? Come on now I hear your feeling down I can ease your pain And get you on your feet again Relax I'll need some information first Just the basic facts Can you show me where it...

When the time comes And the last day dawns And the air of the piper warms The high crags of the old country When the holy writ blows Like burned paper away And wise men concede That there’s more than one way More than one path More than one book Mor...

If I had been God I would have rearranged the veins in the face to make them more resistant to alcohol and less prone to ageing If I had been God I would have sired many sons and I would not have suffered the Romans to kill even one of them If I had been...

You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight You gotta strike when the momen...

Oooooh babe Don't leave me now. Don't say it's the end of the road Remember the flowers I sent I need you Babe To put through the shredder In front of my friends Ooooh Babe Don't leave me now How could you go? When you know how I need you. To beat to a pulp on...

Not the torturer will scare me Nor the body's final fall Nor the barrels of death's rifles Nor the shadows on the wall Nor the night when to the ground The last dim star of pain, is hurled But the blind indifference Of a merciless, unfeeling world Lying in t...

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces? Where waves of hunger roar? Shall we set out across the sea of faces In search of more and more applause? Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? Shall we work straight through the night? S...

Rock a bye baby On the tree top When the wind blows The cradle will rock Oh babe, hate to see you fall that way Better speak to the powers that be today Hey Joe, where you goin' With that gun in your hand? You can take your revenge But you'll still fe...

Billy: Four minutes and counting. Jim: O.K. Billy: They pressed the button, Jim. Jim: They pressed the button Billy, what button? Billy: The big red one. Jim: You mean THE button? Billy: Goodbye, Jim. Jim: Goodbye! Oh yes. This ain't au revoir, it's goodbye! H...

"Oi...Get your filthy hands off my desert!" "What 'e say?" Brezhnev took Afghanistan. Begin took Beirut. Galtieri took the Union Jack. And Maggie, over lunch one day, Took a cruiser with all hands. Apparently, to make him give it back. 

Long live the child and the man Long live the mother and the lad The hills behind us and the sea Reach out to welcome you and me Valley deep and mountain tall Lie upon the ground before us all Strange are the colours of the turf Heralding the rebirth of the ea...

Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky? Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs?...

Goodbye cruel world I'm leaving you today Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye Goodbye all you people There's nothing you can say To make me change my mind Goodbye. 

Have you heard It was on the news Your child can read you like a bedtime story Like a Magazine Like a has-been out to grass Like afternoon T.V. Why is my life going by so fast. Hello I love you Is there anybody in there? Put down the phone Shut up the shop Ma...

Hey you, out there in the cold Getting lonely, getting old Can you feel me? Hey you, standing in the aisles With itchy feet and fading smiles Can you feel me? Hey you, dont help them to bury the light Don't give in without a fight. Hey you, ou...

Jim: Oh, God! Californian Weirdo: Sole has no eyes. Could be Jerusalem, or it could be Cairo Could be Berlin, or it could be Prague Could be Moscow, could be New York Could be Llanelli, and it could be Warrington Could be Warsaw, and it could be Moose Jaw Cou...

If I were a swan, I'd be gone. If I were a train, I'd be late. And if I were a good man, I'd talk with you More often than I do. If I were to sleep, I could dream. If I were afraid, I could hide. If I go insane, please don't put Your wires in my brain...

Do you remember me? How we used to be? Helpless, and happy and blind Sunk without hope In a haze of good dope And cheap wine Laying on the living-room floor On those Indian tapestry cushions you made Thinking of calling our first born Jasmine or Jade Don't d...

[Intro: Donald Trump] So as an example you’re CNN. I mean it’s story, after story, after story is bad. I won. I won. And the other thing, chaos. There’s zero chaos. We are running. This is a fine-tuned mach... The goose has gotten fat On caviar...

Miraculous you call it babe You ain't seen nothing yet They've got Pepsi in the Andes McDonalds in Tibet Yosemite's been turned into A golf course for the Japs The Dead Sea is alive with rap Between the Tigris and Euphrates There's a leisure centre now...

Mama, take this badge off of me 'Cause I can't use it anymore It's gettin' dark Too dark to see I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door K...

Standing at the window A farmer's wife in Oxfordshire Glances at the clock it's nearly time for tea She doesn't see The phantom in the hedgerow dip its wings Doesn't hear the engine sing But in the cockpit's techno glow Behind the Ray Ban(R) shine The kid from...

Hark the wire service sing Clear the satellite link Check the fax machine Hold the lead story boys There's some great pictures coming in Now the pilot's heartbeat slows Palms dry out No questions only orders And the F-1 glides in nose-up Through the cloudbase...

So we left Beirut Willa and I He headed East to Baghdad and the rest of it I set out North I walked the five or six miles to the last of the street lamps And hunkered in the curb side dusk Holding out my thumb In no great hope at the ramshackle procession of...

Come hold me now I am not gone I would not leave you here alone In this dead calm beneath the waves I can still hear those lost boys calling You could not speak You were afraid To take the risk of being left again And so you tipped your hat and waved and then...

You wake up in the morning, get something for the pot Wonder why the sun makes the rocks feel hot Draw on the walls, eat, get laid Back in the good old days Then some damn fool invents the wheel Listen to the whitewalls squeal You spend all day looking for a...

Money, get away. Get a good job with good pay and you're okay. Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash. New car, caviar, four star daydream, Think I'll buy me a football team. Money, get back. I'm all right Jack keep your han...

Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb Mother do you think they'll like the song Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls Ooh ah Mother should I build a wall Mother should I run for president Mother should I trust the government Mother will t...

She was always here in my heart Always the love of my life We were strangers, oceans apart But when I laid eyes on her a part of me died 

The part that is envious Cold hearted and devious Greedy, mischievous Global, colonial Bloodthirsty, blind Mindless and cheap Focused on borders And slaughter and sheep Burning of books Bulldozing of homes Giving to targeted killing with drones Leth...

The monkey sat on a pile of stones And stared at the broken bone in his hand And the stains of a Viennese quartet Rang out across the land The monkey looked up at the stars And thought to himself Memory is a stranger History is for fools And he cleaned his han...

Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollars and cents Pounds shillings and pence Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Little black soul departs in perfect focus Prime time fodder for the News at Nine Darling is the child warm in the bed t...

Picture yourself as you lean on the port rail Tossing away your last cigarette Picture your finger pushing the doorbell Picture the skull and crossbones on the doormat Picture yourself on the streets of Laredo Picture the casbah, picture Japan Picture y...

Radio waves. Radio waves. He hears radio waves. Radio waves. The atmosphere is thin and cold The yellow sun is getting old The ozone overflows with radio waves AM, FM, weather and news Our leaders had a frank exchange of views Are you confused, radio wa...

Sea shell and stone Surf rushes forward to feel the shingle with fingers of foam Search for the gold Over the landscape the mouth of a lifeline unfolds Smooth and round and brown See how the sunshine creeps over thistle and down Hillock and hump, hummock and c...

There's a mad dog pulling at his chain A hint of danger in his eye Alarm bells raging round his brain And the chimney smoking in the sky Wake up Wake up and smell the roses Close your eyes and pray this wind don't change There's nothing but screams in...

They disembarked in 45 And no-one spoke and no-one smiled There were to many spaces in the line. Gathered at the cenotaph All agreed with the hand on heart To sheath the sacrificial Knifes. But now She stands upon Southampton dock With her handkerchief...

I like staying with my Uncle Dave And I like playing with his great dane But I don't fit I feel alien and strange. Kinda outa range I like riding in my Uncle's car Down to the beach where the pretty girls all parade And movie stars and paparazzi play T...

[Woman:] "It's funny to think there's no shelters this time. We had an old Anderson in the garden. I can see it now. We had stertians growing all over it, and we painted the front green. Painted it looked quite pretty. Next door grew cabbages on theirs." [Man...

Instrumental (switch channels) [Alf Razzell:] "Two things that have haunted me most are the days when I had to collect the paybooks; and when I left Bill Hubbard in no-man's-land. "I was picked up and taken into their trench. And I'd no sooner taken two or t...

All in all it's just another brick in the wall All in all you're just another brick in the wall Just another blunder Just another lousy call Just another clap of thunder And apologies ring hollow From the guilty in Whitehall And there's no hint of sor...

You have a natural tendency To squeeze off a shot You're good fun at parties You wear the right masks You're old but you still Like a laugh in the locker room You can't abide change You're at home on the range You opened your suitcase Behind the old w...

When my neurons conspire to direct my thoughts Away from divorce And competitive sports Back to the place Where all rivers run to the sea then I I shall be free I shall be free On a seesaw In a strange land The jackdaw sat On the carindals hand An...

When we grow up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children any way they could By pouring their derision upon anything we did Exposing every weakness, however carefully hidden by the kids But in the town it was well known when th...

Lie with me now Under lemon tree skies Show me the shy slow smile you keep hidden by warm brown eyes Catch the sweet hover of lips just barely apart And wonder at loves sweet ache And the wild beat of my heart Oh, rhapsody tearing me apart And...

She may well have been The most beautiful girl in the world Her life snuffed out Like a bulldozer crushing a pearl The secret committee Deep in its lair Conveniently far From the cold desert air Puts a tick in a box, Turns the key in a lock To loose...

The powers that be They like a tough game No rules Some you win, some you lose Competition's good for you They're dying to be free They're the powers that be They like a bomb proof cadillac Air conditioned, gold taps, Back seat gun rack, platinum hub...

I used to think the world was flat Rarely threw my hat into the crowd I felt I had used up my quota of yearning Used to look in on the children at night In the glow of their Donald Duck light And frighten myself with the thought of my little ones burning But o...

Mamma loves her baby and daddy loves you too and the sea may look warm to you babe and the sky may look blue Ooooooooooooh babe Oooooooh baby blue Ooooooooooh ooooooh babe If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent r...

Reached back for the bottle And rubbed against the lamp Genie came out smiling Like some Eastern tramp He said hey boy what's happening What is going on You can have three wishes If you don't take too long I said well I wish they were all happy in the Lebanon...

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine Staying home...

The child lay In the starlit night Safe in the glow of his Donald Duck light How strange to choose to take a life How strange to choose to kill a child Hoover, Blaupunkt, Nissan Jeep Nike, Addidas, Lacoste and cheaper brands Cadillac, Amtrak, gasoline, diesel...

When the sleigh is heavy And the timber wolves are getting bold You look at you companions And test the water of their friendship With your toe And they significantly edge Closer to the gold Each man has his price Bob And yours was pretty low That his...

Ooooh, the lonely boys In their towers of faith Ooooh, the lonely boys Locked in their towers of faith The prophet reclined On the Golan Heights Ohhh, the lonely boys He said, this land is my land To the Shiites Ooooh, the lonely boys And Jehova looked up...

~~~♫♫♫~~~ Us and them And after all we're only ordinary men Me and you God only knows it's not what we would choose to do "Forward" he cried from the rear and the front rank died And the general sat And the lines on the map moved from side to side Black and b...

Will a glass inlaid with gemstones On a pool around the evening Among the perfumed roses Wait for her With the patience of a packhorse Loaded for the mountains Like a stoic, noble prince Wait for her With seven pillows laid out on the stair The scen...

've been watching In Tiananmen Square Lost my baby there My yellow rose In her bloodstained clothes She was a short order pastry chef In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway She had shiny hair She was the daughter of an engineer Won't you shed a tear For my y...

We shall overcome We shall overcome We shall overcome some day Deep in my heart I do believe That we shall overcome Some day And we'll walk hand in hand we'll walk hand in hand we'll walk hand in hand one day Deep in my heart I do believe That we'...

What God wants God gets God help us all What God wants God gets The kid in the corner looked at the priest And fingered his pale blue Japanese guitar The priest said God wants goodness God wants light God wants mayhem God wants a clean fight What God wants God...

Do you believe in a better day Do you have faith in a golden way If you do then we must come together this day Come together as one united Television audience Brought together by the sound of my voice United united financially united socially United spirituall...

Don't be afraid it's only business The alien prophet sighed The vulture and the magpie took The cash box from its hook The monkey in the corner wrote The figures in his book Crazed the checkout lady's fingers Flash across the till The captain posts The menu fo...

Where are you now? Don't answer that I’m still ugly. You’re still fat. I’ve still got spots. I’m still afraid Our parents made us what we are. Or was it God? Who gives a fuck, it’s never really over 

Me and Benny went out last night Looking for fun Supping ale in the moonlight Waiting for the dawn to come Benny pointed at a HiFi shop He said hey man look at all the stuff they've got How'd you make a have out of a have not Hmmmm. Who needs informat...