Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb Meaning

Song Released: 1980

Comfortably Numb Lyrics

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you’re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the...

1. anonymous

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   Nov 28th 2011 !⃝

   This isn't about heroin, for Gosh's sake. It's about how the events in his life have made him numb to his surroundings. I think that's it. Sometimes, this album can be too intense for me to understand it fully.
2. anonymous

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   Oct 18th 2011 !⃝

   Heroin use definitely.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 3rd 2011 !⃝

   a great song has many interpretations. i always liked the way this song made me feel, the tone-painting was excellent. you can't very well write a song that says i went to the doc & he gave an opiate & i vomited. this song was(to me)a lament, if not his then at least my own.
4. anonymous

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   Sep 1st 2011 !⃝

   umm. im in recovery from a bad heroin addiction. i thnk the song is def bot sum form of opiate. comfortably numb is def how u feel on heroin or morphine. "u may feel a lil sick" def get ur stomach upset espeacialy ur first few times. "thier is no pain" yea ur def not feelin any pain. sum of the lyrics are him rememberi times from his child hood. he had a bad fever and his hands sweeled up maybe the drugs r takin him back to his childhood. "a lil pinprick thier is no more... ahhh." the rush from opiates is almost instant. "is there anybody in there?" is there anybody home?" u do "nod off" wen u do herion or other iv opiates. i have ppl ask me the same question wen i was in that state. reciedin? cause the higher u get the more u seem to fall out of reality. just a guess guys. i read the part were he brought up the childhoo fever part,

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5. anonymous

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   Aug 4th 2011 !⃝

   People, music isnt about proving people wrong. a song belong to whomever it pertains to. if one wants to interpert it in one way, and it means something to them, then they are no more right or wrong than someone else who interperts it a different way. make what you want of this, or any other song, and as long as it reaches out to you, who gives a shit if someone tells you your right or wrong. thats what many dont understnad. stop going to sites about wht songs mean and find you own meaning in them.
6. anonymous

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   Jul 31st 2011 !⃝

   it's about being abducted by a fucking UFO! you simple minded humans

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7. anonymous

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   Jul 25th 2011 !⃝

   You folks who are knocking the heroin explanation... Have you ever used it?
8. anonymous

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   Jun 20th 2011 !⃝

   Since art isn’t “owned” by the artist once it has been created I would never say that someone else’s interpretation is wrong. I hear in this wonderful song the pain and helplessness of someone finally hitting the bottom of the abyss of addiction or insanity (Syd) and they no longer feel connected to the rest of the world. I particularly like the line “Can you show me where it hurts?”. Since it’s the subject’s mental anguish which is causing the pain it is impossible to answer the question and it shows how ignorant or uncaring everyone else is to the suffering. The distant ship on the horizon also alludes to the loneliness and separation from society felt by the subject. Overall, the lyrics combined with Gilmour’s hypnotic guitar solo makes this song a memorable and haunting one.
9. spiriteye

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   Jun 12th 2011 !⃝

   he had a spiritual, mystical or religious experience when he was young,maybe during a childhood illness but did not know at the time what was happening. many people who use drugs have have a similar experience of being an "eternal being". maybe by trying drugs he was trying to recreate he earlier experience. using drugs can give a similar "spiritual" experience but it is somewhat a FALSE enlightenment as it was not created by the "natural" process of MEDITATION. understanding spiritual experiences and their teachings by the great world teachers can be found @ guardiantext. org if you need more info
10. anonymous

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    May 25th 2011 !⃝

    The song is about a time when Pink got too use to how his fame can turn him to drugs which when he o.d'ed he saw the truth and the doctors and executive producers decided to drug him up so that he could continue with the show but if you pay close attention, you can see how its Pink's family and friends that break in through his door first and once they saw the producers doing that to their friend, they took action and took him out of the building and dragged him to a vehicle so that they could get him to the hospital. Also I can see how he feel completely numb to the point he was comfortable with the world and he didn't want to face reality so he would block out everything. When he was a child he caught a fever means exactly what it says which is something that most children face, but since this was way back when Pink was a child, it was more difficult to cure the fever, so it was a major point in life he faced. Near death experience. Pink faced many through his life. What he didn't have was a childhood because his father was sent to fight in WWII so he didn't get to experience a kids true happiness and he hoped to be able to when his father got back. Pink had to watch all the men come off the trains and run to their families, but his father never came off. So truethfully he got to the point that he felt he had no life, which caused him to overdose, but he didn't count on that being the trip he needed to actually understand life. If you really want to understand this song, watch the movie "Pink Floyd's The Wall," then you'll understand
11. anonymous

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    May 11th 2011 !⃝

    Shut up dumb ass :P! Anyways before this fuck tard ruined the thread in a interview waters said that it was before a concert that the hepatitus c he had was getting worse so they called a doctor they being his manager or something the doctor gave him a shot to finish his show and waters said that was the longest three hours of his life.
12. anonymous

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    May 8th 2011 !⃝

    Why does everyone always focus on what a song meant to the artist that composed it? Who cares? The beauty of music, is that each song means something different to each person that listens to it. It is entirely dependent on your current life situation and whatever shit you are dealing with at the time. When I was younger, I connected with the message of anti-establishment and "The Wall" for me were the boundaries put upon me by my control freak parents. Now it is something completely different.
13. anonymous

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    Apr 20th 2011 !⃝

    at one concert he suffered from a incredibble pain in his spine so bad he cuold not perform becuose of that they gave him a strong painkiller at the concert that day he became so high that he wrote a song about how he experrienced being high so it was not about being mentally ill or annything. believe me I checked
14. anonymous

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    Apr 17th 2011 !⃝

    The song is about a rock star on heroin and not caring anymore about life. It was not as he thought it would be and life or death does not matter to him. The rockstar life is not all that grand. He takes the herion to numb himself from reality and deny how his life really is.
15. anonymous

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    Apr 14th 2011 !⃝

    The song was written after the lead singer was having stomach cramps before a concert. so his doctor gave him horse tranks to make the pains go away and so he could finish the show.

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