Roger Waters (Medienpräsenz)

7:32

This is a new recording and video of “The Bravery of Being Out of Range” from my 1992 album, 'Amused To Death'. It features part of Ronald Reagan’s farewell speech to the nation when he left office. I include the speech because the first verse of the song is about Reagan, he is the old man I am addressing. Reagan is still revered by many, even though he is a mass war criminal who, among his many other crimes, knowingly supported the genocide of the Mayan people of Guatemala when he was president of the United States. His Assistant Secretary of State at the time of the genocide, the equally homicidal Elliot Abrams, still works for unsavory elements in current US Government circles. Try to watch the Journeyman film about the Guatemala genocide and the US government involvement linked here (https://www.journeyman.tv/film/635​), it is grueling but…. well look at the Guatemalan girls (http://rogerwaters.com/guatemala.jpg), their mothers and grandmothers and fathers were slaughtered with Regan’s blessing.

The second verse is about "Desert Storm" so the second old man is Bush Senior who slaughtered all those disarmed Iraqi troops retreating from Kuwait on Bush’s orders on the road to Basra. The third verse was something I wrote when, disgusted as I was that "thirty years later" the US is still dealing death to innocents in the name of freedom, we decided to do this song as an encore in Latvia. Trump? Biden? Still dropping bombs, still killing innocent people. Same disgusting war hawk puppets. Come on AMERICA, it’s time to MAN UP and say NO MORE KILLING THE CHILDREN TO GET OUR OWN WAY, NO MORE IMPERIAL WARS. LETS GO HOME AND PUT OUR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER! BECAUSE IT'S FUCKED UP. 

Deutsche Übersetzung

Dies ist eine neue Aufnahme und ein neues Video von „The Bravery of Being Out of Range” aus meinem Album „Amused To Death” von 1992. Es enthält einen Ausschnitt aus Ronald Reagans Abschiedsrede an die Nation, als er sein Amt niederlegte. Ich habe die Rede aufgenommen, weil es im ersten Vers des Songs um Reagan geht, er ist der alte Mann, an den ich mich wende. Reagan wird immer noch von vielen verehrt, obwohl er ein Massenkriegsverbrecher ist, der neben vielen anderen Verbrechen während seiner Amtszeit als Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten wissentlich den Völkermord an den Maya in Guatemala unterstützt hat. Sein stellvertretender Außenminister zur Zeit des Völkermords, der ebenso mörderische Elliot Abrams, arbeitet immer noch für unappetitliche Elemente in den Kreisen der aktuellen US-Regierung. Versuchen Sie, sich den Journeyman-Film über den Völkermord in Guatemala und die Beteiligung der US-Regierung anzusehen, der hier verlinkt ist (https://www.journeyman.tv/film/635​). Es ist erschütternd, aber ... sehen Sie sich die guatemaltekischen Mädchen an (http://rogerwaters.com/guatemala.jpg), deren Mütter, Großmütter und Väter mit Reagans Segen abgeschlachtet wurden.

Der zweite Vers handelt von „Desert Storm“, also ist der zweite alte Mann Bush Senior, der all die unbewaffneten irakischen Truppen, die sich auf Bushs Befehl hin aus Kuwait zurückzogen, auf dem Weg nach Basra niedermetzelte. Den dritten Vers habe ich geschrieben, als ich angewidert davon war, dass die USA „dreißig Jahre später“ immer noch im Namen der Freiheit Unschuldige töten, und wir beschlossen, diesen Song als Zugabe in Lettland zu spielen. Trump? Biden? Immer noch Bomben abwerfen, immer noch unschuldige Menschen töten. Dieselben widerlichen Kriegstreiber-Marionetten. Komm schon, AMERIKA, es ist Zeit, MANN zu sein und zu sagen: KEINE KINDER MEHR TÖTEN, UM UNSEREN WILLEN DURCHZUSETZEN, KEINE IMPERIALISTISCHEN KRIEGE MEHR. LASST UNS NACH HAUSE GEHEN UND UNSER EIGENES HAUS IN ORDNUNG BRINGEN! DENN ES IST VOLLKOMMEN IM ARSCH.

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6:50

"The Happiest Days Of Our Lives/Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2/Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3" by Roger Waters from Live in Amsterdam, June, 2018
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Roger Waters, the creative force behind Pink Floyd, delivers the highly anticipated film “Us & Them” - a message of human rights, liberty and love, combined with Pink Floyd’s powerful music.
 

8:52

"Comfortably Numb 2022" by Roger Waters
Before lockdown I had been working on a demo of a new version of ‘Comfortably Numb’ as an opener to our new show "This Is Not A Drill”. I pitched it a whole step down, in A Minor, to make it darker and arranged it with no solos, except over the outro, where there is a heartrendingly beautiful vocal solo from one of our new sisters Shanay Johnson.It’s intended as a wakeup call, and a bridge towards a kinder future with more talking to strangers, either in "The Bar” or just “Passing in the Street" and less slaughter “In Some Foreign Field.”Here it is. Love R. The video is by Sean Evans. The mix is by Gus Seyffert.

Chorus 1:
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

Credits:
Produced by Roger Waters and Gus Seyffert
Roger Waters – Vocals
Gus Seyffert – Bass, Synth, Percussion, Vocals
Joey Waronker – Drums
Dave Kilminster – Vocals
Jonathan Wilson – Harmonium, Synth, Guitar and Vocals
Jon Carin – Synth, Vocals
Shanay Johnson – Vocals
Amanda Belair – Vocals
Robert Walter – Organ/Piano
Nigel Godrich – Strings, amp and backing vocals from Roger Waters ‘The Wall’ Sessions.

Video produced and directed by Sean Evans.

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11:39

The resistance begins today. 
Live from Zócalo Square - Mexico City - October 1, 2016 

Official Website: https://rogerwaters.com/ 

6:28

Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill: Live From Prague 

5:08

Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill: Live From Prague - The Movie in cinemas worldwide July 23 & 27.

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar, you're gonna go far
You're gonna fly, you're never gonna die
You're gonna make it if you try, they're gonna love you
Well, I've always had a deep respect and I mean that most sincere
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think
Oh, by the way, which one's pink?

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it riding the gravy train

We're just knocked out, we heard about the sell-out
You gotta get an album out, you owe it to the people
We're so happy we can hardly count
Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
It's a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it riding the gravy train

9:05

 There is a word in Arabic
Sumud
It means Steadfast Perseverance
Particularly In Resistance
To the occupation of your homeland
I just want that thing
When voices join in harmony
And in that fleeting moment
When meaning coalesces there
All dark dissolving
Clouds the alleyways no more
And fresh bread scent of home
Pervades the air
No sandal soles
In dust of broken homes
Peep bloody from the garment hem
And all the big parades
And shock and awe
And swagger on the carrier deck
And medals jangle helpless
In the face of what is fair
Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaaaaah!
Yeah! Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaah!
Oh yeah Oh , Oh yeah
Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaaah
Join us, Join us in harmony

I remember you well
Where you stood where you fell
You were brutally slain
But your spirits remain.
Rachel Corrie and
Shireen Abu Akleh
Marielle Franco
Sophie Scholl
Ann Frank
Iman Al Hams
Many sisters from many lands
Oh my sisters,
Help me to open their eyes
From up in the Penthouse
We must all look like ants to them
Wake up motherfuckers
We are women and men
Well up unashamed
My bleeding heart
Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaah.
Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaah.
Oh Yeah. Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah,
Give me an Oh Yeaaaaah!
Join us, join us,
Join us in harmony.

And then across the great divide
Come men and women unafraid
To dash in loss
Their bracelets at the wall
When voices join in harmony
And we turn the final page
When man evolves beyond the crass
And reason comes of age.
And Dogma
And Witchcraft
And Cant
And Propaganda
And Palantir
And Lockheed
And Grumman
And Chevron
And Exxon
And Pffizer
And the Oligarchs and Misers say
We’re sorry that we done it Mummy
We only done it for
The fucking money
Oh yeaaaaaah, just for the money
Oh yeaaaaaah, just for the cash.
When voices join in harmony
We will make a joyful sound
We will follow
Our own moral compass
We won’t let their sleight of hand trump us
We will find ten thousand new voices
In every crowd
And when all those new voices
Join us in harmony
Standing shoulder to shoulder
From the river to the sea
People from every nation
Will hear that joyful sound
Ordinary people
Just standing their ground
And together
These ordinary people,
Together
They will turn this ship around.
Oh Yeah
Together
Oh yeah
Together we will turn this ship around.

5:52

Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill: Live From Prague - The Movie in cinemas worldwide July 23 & 27.