Waiting For The Worms

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Ooooh you cannot reach me now
Ooooh no matter how you try
Goodbye cruel world it's over
Walk on by
Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come
In perfect isolation here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come
Waiting to cut out the deadwood
Waiting to clean up the city
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to put on a black shirt
Waiting to weed out the weaklings
Waiting to smash in their windows
And kick in their doors
Waiting for the final solution
To strengthen the strain
Waiting to follow the worms
Waiting to turn on the showers v And fire the ovens
Waiting for the queers and the coons
And the reds and the Jews
Waiting to follow the worms
Would you like to see Britannia
Rule again my friend
All you have to do is follow the worms
Would you like to send our coloured cousins
Home again my friend
All you need to do is follow the worms.

(c) Roger Waters

 

[algie]

Waters is the master at lyrics

 

[jevs]

One of my favourite Floyd tracks

 

[Louisjpbacon]

Would you like to send our coloured cousins
Home again my friend

ummm.....

 

[looney]

Would you like to send our coloured cousins
Home again my friend

ummm.....

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm.

 

[Louisjpbacon]

im not sure what they are implying!!

 

[jevs]

I'm pretty certain that Walters wasn't at all racist when he wrote the song but it more likely reflected the way the Thatcherite government at the time thought and behaved as well as other dictators in history (Hitler for example). Walters was extremely anti war and most of his songs depicted this. He was a member of CND for years and his father was killed in WW2 in Anzio, Italy and Walters was very angry that he never had a father (listen to the song "when the tigers broke free")

In some of the other songs in "The wall"....as well as the above song, there are mentions of shooting queens, coons, jews and christ knows who.

Maybe someone can explain it a little better

 

[readingstockport]

It was fairly plainly an allegory about the rightward drift of society and a shout against said drift. If you really can't work that out then I would be slightly concerned. The entire album is about one mans descent into madness and his inevitable right ward drift as this happens.

 

[northstandnorth]

the wall we build to protect ourselves against others,the inability to give and trust for fear of getting hurt,the way we get defensive if we feel that we under scrutiny or attack.
all paranoid and unjustified reactions.

isolationism(thatcher stating "there is no such thing as society")
these are the walls we build

magnified from the person to the state.

facism being the ultimatestate incorporating illogicallity and paranoia

these themes are what the whole album is about

he dosn't support fascism and isolationism.he is trying to ridicule it.

BUT HE STILL IS A FOX HUNTING HYPOCRITICAL BASTARD