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The song addresses the listener and says that if you, the listener, are affected by that force, and if that force is a worry to you, well I feel exactly the same too.
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I think it's a very simple statement saying that all the good things life can offer are there for us to grasp, but that the influence of some dark force in our natures prevents us from seizing them. The album uses the sun and the moon as symbols the light and the dark the good and the bad the life force as opposed to the death force. The final words sung on the song and, indeed the album The Dark Side of the Moon, directs the listener, "and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon." Waters explained the meaning of these words as well as the entire song by asserting: Waters wrote the lyrics on the road for the " Brain Damage" / "Eclipse" closing sequence as he felt the whole piece was "unfinished". On the last repetition of the chord progression, the B♭maj7 leads directly to a climax on D major, resulting in a "brightening" effect (known as the Picardy third), as the aforementioned implication of D minor in the B♭maj7 chord shifts to the major. The quartet of female backing singers vary their parts, rising in volume, and echoing some of Roger Waters' lyrics, as the piece builds in intensity. The lower-pitched guitar part includes the open G and E strings during the B♭maj7, resulting in an added sixth and a dissonant augmented fourth. The bass line is a descending tetrachord.ĭavid Gilmour recorded two tracks of rhythm guitar, playing arpeggios, one in open position, and one much higher, around the tenth fret. Harmonically, the song consists of a repeating 4-bar chord progression: D, D/C, B♭maj7, and A7sus4 resolving to A7. When the main instrumentation ends at 1:30, the sound of a heartbeat from the first track, " Speak to Me", appears, which appears again in 9/8, and gradually fades to silence. It has since become a fan favorite.This song serves as the album's end and features a loud, repetitive melody that builds up, then ends with a very quiet outro. David Gilmour urged Waters to take over the lead vocal duties.
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It’s rather slow and features a simple melody. “You raise the blade, you make the change” refers to a surgical procedure called frontal lobotomy which was used on those with schizophrenia, manic-depressive disorders, and other mental illnesses.įollowing the conclusion of the American leg of their 1971 Meddle tour, Waters brought with him prototypes of a couple of songs – this included “Brain Damage” and “Money.” He’d been playing it since the Meddle sessions but back then, it was called “The Dark Side of the Moon.” During recording, the band referred to the song as “Lunatic.” They recorded it on October 1972. “And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes…” is a reference to Barrett’s erratic, unreliable, and unpredictable behavior before he was dismissed because he sometimes performed the wrong track on stage. “I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon” indicated that Waters could somehow relate to what Barrett was going through.