Amused To Death Lyrics - In The Flesh - Roger Waters

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me 

This supermarket life is getting long 

What is the heart 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 

And the children of 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 

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 

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 

And when they found our shadows 

Grouped around 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 

"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 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?' 

"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." 

"When was it that you saw his name on the memorial?" 

"Ah, when I was eighty-seven, that would be a year, ninete...eighty- 

four, nineteen eighty-four."