Recorded July–December 1982 Length ~1:19 | Genre Progressive rock Writer(s) Roger Waters | |
Released 21 March 1983 (UK)
2 April 1983 (US) Label Harvest Records (UK)
Capitol Records (US) |
"Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album, The Final Cut.
A sound effect used in this song was later used as a segue on Roger Water's 1992 solo album Amused to Death, branching the two part song "Late Home Tonight."
The lyrics of this song list a number of world leaders and conflicts they have been involved in; including Leonid Brezhnev and his invasion of Afghanistan, Menachem Begin and his attack on Beirut, Leopoldo Galtieri invading the Falkland Islands and Margaret Thatcher's counter-attack which sparked the Falklands War.
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