Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb" (from: The Wall) - (Sax Cover by James E. Green)

"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd (1979) James E. Green - alto saxophone SUCH an amazing, yet sad song ... that almost makes you cry. This lyric is so moving: "When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown The dream is gone" *** I found this description of the song and I tend to agree: "The meaning of this song becomes clear if you think of it in context: Picture man who has been becoming steadily more alone and isolated all his life, and who some how ended up becoming a rock star. Now imagine that one day right before a gig he becomes incapacitated, so the manager has to send for a doctor. The doctor doesn't care about the rock star, he doesn't want to CURE him, he just wants him to last through the show. The song is made up of the things the doctor says, and the rock star's internal response. Being "Comfortably Numb" is not a drug reference, it's a description of what all these years of detachment have done to this man, "Comfortable" doesn't mean pleasurable, it just means not immediately painful. At the end of the last chorus, the recollection from his childhood shows a deep, innermost longing for the time before all the pain, before he had to be numb. The whole album is the story of this person, that is an undisputed fact. Whether of not it is also about members of the band on some level is debatable (Though Probably true), but this is obviously how it fits in with the story line. Listen to the song with this in mind and you'll see."