Pink Floyd: Careful with That Axe, Eugene Meaning

Careful with That Axe, Eugene Lyrics

Down, down. Down, down. The star is screaming.

Beneath the lies. Lie, lie. Tschay, tschay, tschay.

[sound of Waters blowing into the microphone]

[light screaming from Waters]

Careful, careful, careful with that axe, Eugene.

[very...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 2nd 2012 !⃝

   waters is ironically refering to himself as choc the mayan rain deity as he chronicals the death of his brother the sun whom he slays. the next intelligible lyric warns "eugene" to "be carefull with that axe". this can be interpreted in two ways firstly he could simply making reference to a rivalry between himself and gilmour or he could be again drawing the mayan god illusion where instead of gilmour being the wielder of the axe waters is and gilmour is the axe itself the embodyment of the mayan lightning god k'awiil he would then be warning himself eugene"chaac"(waters) about using the axe "k'awiil"(gilmour)to defeat his brother "the sun" which i have not yet identified as anyone specifically yet but is probably along the lines of an us and them kind of mentallity something like the bourgeoisie and proletariot

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2. sydferret

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   Oct 24th 2011 !⃝

   Waters is venting his enmity with Gilmour, via scream therapy. Careful with that axe is a simple warning that other axe handlers are available.

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3. anonymous

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   Oct 22nd 2011 !⃝

   I am not Eugene. I am Eugene... I am his victim.
4. anonymous

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   Sep 30th 2011 !⃝

   It's quite obvious, really. It's about an axe murderer and the screams are of the victims of Eugene's mighty axe.
5. anonymous

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   Apr 17th 2011 !⃝

   The song was going to be part of a soundtrack and I guess it flopped. It was a slasher film and I think it was based on a real person.

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