Roger Waters

Released: August 21, 1990

Featuring: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Scorpions

Songwriter: Roger Waters

Producer: Nick Griffiths Roger Waters

So ya, thought ya
Might like to go to the show
To feel that warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow
I've got some bad news for you sunshine
Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
We're gonna find out where you folks really stand

Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me
Get him up against the wall!
That one looks Jewish!
And that one's a coon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint
And another with spots!
If I had my way
I'd have all of you shot!

Roger Waters, the lyrical mastermind behind most of Pink Floyd’s work in the 1970s, was the band’s bassist, vocalist and, at one point, its front man. He solidified himself as one of music’s greatest poets with Animals, a picture of modern society metaphorized as animals, and The Wall, an epic rock opera that follows a rockstar’s declining mental state and disillusionment with the world around him.

After leaving Pink Floyd, he went on to create even more works that geared towards geopolitical themes, with the electrifying Radio K.A.O.S. and the provoking Amused to Death.

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