Roger Waters Amused to Death Lyrics:
Doctor Doctor, what is wrong with me
This supermarket life is getting long
What is the half life of a colour TV
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl

News hound sniffs the air
When Jessica Hahn goes down
He latches on to that symbol of detachment
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
The celebrity of the abused shell, the belle

Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl

And the children on Melrose
Strut their stuff
Is absolute zero cold enough
And out in the valley, warm and clean
The little ones sit by their TV screens
No thoughts to think
No tears to cry
All sucked dry
Down to the very last breath

Bartender what is wrong with me?
Why am I so out of breath?
The captain said excuse me ma'am
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
It has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death

We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
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We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
Our last hurrah

And when they found our shadows
Grouped 'round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then, the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death

No tears to cry, no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death (repeating)
(switch channels)

[Alf Razzell:] "Years later, I saw
Bill Hubbard's name on the memorial to the
missing at Aras. And I...when I saw his
name I was absolutely transfixed; it was
as though he...he was now a human being
instead of some sort of nightmarish memory
of how I had to leave him, all those years
ago. And I felt relieved, and ever since
then I've felt happier about it, because
always before, whenever I thought of him,
I said to myself, 'Was there something
else that I could have done?' [background:
"I'd rather die, I'd rather
die..."] And that always sort of
worried me. And having seen him, and his
name in the register - as you know in the
memorials there's a little safe, there's a
register in there with every name - and
seeing his name and his name on the
memorial; it sort of lightened my...heart,
if you like."
[woman:] "When was it that you saw
his name on the memorial?"
[Alf:] "Ah, when I was eighty-seven,
that would be the year,
ninete...eighty-four, nineteen
eighty-four."
Lyrics: Amused to Death, Roger Waters [end]