What is the meaning to the song 'Comfortably Numb'?

Answer 1

Great question! There's actually a few ways to look at it.

1. The song is from Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall, in which an archetypal rock star named "Pink" grows increasingly isolated as a result of traumatic events of his past and present. These events lead to his building a metaphorical "wall" to separate him from the outside world, using these events as "bricks". The song "Comfortably Numb" shows his isolation after he builds the wall.
2. Primary songwriter Roger Waters and director Alan Parker approached the film project "The Wall" as a feature-length music video, with the songs telling the story (which is fleshed out quite a bit more with the accompanying visuals). During "Comfortably Numb", Pink is still isolated, but we also observe him shaving his head, eyebrows, chest-hair, etc. This symbolizes Pink's reversion to a fetal state, out of which he will be reborn as a proto-fascist later in the film ("In The Flesh" and "Run Like Hell").
3. Like many of the songs on The Wall, Waters drew upon his own personal experiences when writing the lyrics. In the case of "Comfortably Numb", he recalled being very ill with stomach cramps while the band was on tour, and being administered a tranquilizer (the lyric "just a little pinprick" alluding to the injection). The medicine made his hands feel "like two balloons" and took away his pain ("there is no pain, you are receding").
4. Most of the songs on The Wall were written by Waters alone; once his concept was complete, he presented the song cycle to the band, who then added their parts with strict supervision from Waters. In the place of "Comfortably Numb" was a shorter song called "The Doctor" that barely resembled the finished product. Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour added a chord progression for the chorus, and of course added his iconic guitar solos. At that point it was renamed "Comfortably Numb", and was one of the only tracks on "The Wall" that was co-written.

Why is this important, you ask? Well, at the time The Wall was being recorded, Gilmour and Waters hated each other bitterly. They'd barely talk to each other, much less cooperate in the songwriting process. And after The Wall, the band released another Waters project The Final Cut, after which Waters left the band for good. So in a way, "Comfortably Numb" could be seen as the last time the two primary songwriters of Pink Floyd worked together, before their own wall separated them for 25 years.

Answer 2

the album THE WALL witch has the song on there is about a guy who shuts out the world so comfortably numb was about that guy the guy was a rocker and his manager gav him a drug to make him preform.

However, according to a lot of people it was in relation to a wicked drug that goes by the name of Heroin :-(

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The English rock band Pink Floyd released the song "Comfortably Numb" on June 23, 1980. It was included in the band's album "The Wall" and is over 6 minutes long.

Answer 5

The song is about Roger Waters child-hood fever and the feeling of diembodiment he had when having a temperasture of a 105 according to Roger Waters himself.

Answer 6

WHEN YOUR ARMS AND LEGS FALL ASLEEP BUT YOU CAN GET . UP TO WAKE THEM UP BECAUSE YOU DOGO IS ON YOUR BELLY

Answer 7

He had to have taken"Something", probably very sedative and felt like he was chillin like a villian! A litle "H" WILL make all, of whom consume the Beast, "COMFORTLY NUMB"!

Answer 8

it sounds wrong lololol