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The Wall pt. 3 - Goodbye Blue Sky by Seagoon

The Wall pt. 3 - Goodbye Blue Sky

Seagoon

I love how Rachez captured this third chapter in the Wall Project - original here - it's my personal favourite Wall piece so far. :)

Later in life, Pink finds his father's death certificate. It's then that he goes through a kind of involuntary post-traumatic response, in a time when the spectre of war is still very fresh in people's minds. The first few bricks of the wall now begin to form as his innocence is irreversibly shattered, his childhood naiveté gone, just as England and the rest of the western world bid farewell to whatever blue-sky innocence they remembered from before the war.

This art is inspired by Gerald Scarfe's animated sequence and artwork that accompany this song in the film version, and I think it works better here at this point in the story than it does on the album itself. The song is still about personal and societal change regardless of where it's placed, but the imagery of the lyrics make more sense here after the equally war-charged "When the Tigers Broke Free" (a song only used in the film version); they're somewhat incongruous when applied to an older Pink, for whom the spectre of war would be more of a distant memory at that stage in his life.

Sadly I can't link you to either the song or the animation that accompanies it from the film because of YouTube's moronic copyright rules; every other version on there is either a live version or off-key (and frankly I wouldn't subject you to the abuse the song took in the Berlin concert).

The Wall remains the property of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd

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