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. Lamarcus

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   Dec 24th 2005 !⃝

   This song (and the scene in the movie) is about what happens after Pink the rockstar goes on a crazy trip about World War II. At the end of the previous song (Bring the Boys Back Home) and the beginning of the Echoes version of this song, you hear Pink's manager banging on his hotel door going "Time to go!"
   
   Pink has passed out, and the manager calls the doctor. He's talking to the doctor, and the doctor gives him some kind of quick-fix drug (possibly heroine?) that sends him shortly on another trip about his childhood.
2. Lefty

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   Dec 17th 2005 !⃝

   I think this song is about growing older, and losing the ambitions and dreams of our youth. The lyrics pretty much point to this, and if you need further help on the meaning, just watch the movie.
3. anonymous

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   Dec 9th 2005 !⃝

   Watch the Pink Floyd movie, The Wall. That's all I have to say and it should clear up any confusion you people have.
4. anonymous

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   Nov 27th 2005 !⃝

   This song is about Pink the rockstar having to go out and perform for a crowd of people which he has built his wall around and see them in the flesh. So he stays at his hotel and sits still in his chair and becomes "comfortably numb."
5. anonymous

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   Nov 24th 2005 !⃝

   All you fuckheads who think it about herion should eat shit. The song is about becoming numb to your surroundings and just trying to get through with life.
6. amber31187

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   Nov 22nd 2005 !⃝

   I know that the song is about a character that is a rock star (one of the band memebers), he is too tired to go onstage but if he doesn't go then they will lose money, so the song is actually a conversation between him and a doctor. The docter is giving him the herion.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
7. anonymous

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   Nov 10th 2005 !⃝

   I think the song Comfortably Numb is all about herion. You can tell he talks about easing your pain and his hands feeling like to balloons. Then he says "OK, just a little pin prick, there'll be no more (scream), But you may feel a little sick. Can you stand up? I do believe it's working good." It's so obvious.

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