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Stop (Pink Floyd song)

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Recorded
  
April–November 1979

Length
  
0:30

Genre
  
Published
  
Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd

Released
  
30 November 1979 (UK)8 December 1979 (US)

"Stop" is a song from the 1979 Pink Floyd album, The Wall. It was written by Roger Waters.

Contents

Plot

Pink is tired of his life as a fascist dictator and the hallucination ends. Also tired of 'The Wall', he accordingly devolves into his own mind and puts himself on trial.

Film version

After "Waiting for the Worms", Pink literally calls for a stop, where we find him sitting at the bottom of a bathroom stall. He seems to be reading the lyrics from a sheet of paper where a few of the lines come from, at the time, unreleased material written by Waters. The line "Do you remember me / How we used to be / Do you think we should be closer?", comes from "Your Possible Pasts". Other lines come from "5:11AM (The Moment of Clarity)"). As Pink finishes the lyrics to "Stop", the security guard seen in the segment for "Young Lust" slowly pushes open the stall door, which leads to the animated intro of "The Trial".

Personnel

  • Roger Waters — vocals
  • with:

  • Bob Ezrin — piano
  • References

    Stop (Pink Floyd song) Wikipedia


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