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====Late Home Tonight, Part II====
====Late Home Tonight, Part II====
This song come after "Late Home Tonight, Part I" and before "Too Much Rope". This track is about how you are a celebrated hero in America after you have just blown something up, thereby killing many people ("New boy you're a hero take this cigar"). However, it also says that there were Americans that were killed in the exact same why as the person killed the people America was at war with ("Our American friends are late home tonight").
This song come after "Late Home Tonight, Part I" and before "Too Much Rope". This track is about how you are a celebrated hero in America after you have just blown something up, thereby killing many people ("New boy you're a hero take this cigar"). However, it also says that there were Americans that were killed in the exact same why as the person killed the people America was at war with ("Our American friends are late home tonight").
===Too Much Rope===
This is the eight track on the album. It comes after "Late Home Tonight, Part II" and before "What God Wants, Part II". This song talks about how we give too much credit to certain speaches, and how people cannot think for themselves anymore ("They significantly edge/Closer to the gold/Each man has his price Bob/And yours was pretty low"). The song's chorus states, "Give any one species too much rope/And they'll f*** it up", which means that if you really care about the speech, even if it is trying to do good, you end up messing it up in some way. The song goes on to talk about how the things that we consider moving are not really moving, yet we find them moving because we bearly see things of compassion ("Tears burn my eyes/What does it mean/This tear jerking scene/Beamed into my home/That it moves me so much/Why all the fuss/It's only two humans being/It's only two humans being").
===Watching TV===
This song is the tenth song on the album. It comes after "What God Wants, Part III" and before "Three Wishes". This song is about the shooting in Tiananmen Square in which a college student was killed. The song is written with a sympathetic point of view towards the girl who was shot ("Lost my baby there"). It describes her as being a pastry cheif who was the perfect woman. The song talks about how, because she was shot on TV, people were much more sensitive towards it. It goes on to state that she is different than other people that die because she died on TV ("And she is different from Cro-Magnon man/She's different from Anne Boleyn/She is different from the Rosenbergs/And from the unknown Jew/She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan/Half superstar half victim/She's a victor star conceptually new/And she is different from the Dodo/And from the Kankanbono/She is different from the Aztec/And from the Cherokee/She's everybody's sister/She's symbolic of our failure/She's the one in fifty million/Who can help us to be free/Because she died on TV").
===Three Wishes===
This is the eleventh song on the album. It comes after "Watching TV" and before "It's A Miricle". This song is about how we are never satisfied with things, and how we want so many things that we cannot ever remember the people that are really important. The words that are stated at the begining are, "At first I wanted to buy a big one, but then, I hadn't got enough money so I had to buy a smaller one. And if I think, I bought the bigger one, then, it would've been the way I wanted it." This means that we are quick to judge what we want. The person later goes on to say that she is satisfyed with the smaller one. However, in the song, a gennie appears and says that he has three wishes, spending it on:
#"I wish they were all happy in the Lebanon"
#"Wish somebody'd help me write this song"
#"I wish when I was young/My old man had not been gone"
However, as can be seen from the song's chorus, there was another thing that he overlooked. It would've been for love, but he cannot because he has used up his three wishes. The chorus goes like this:<br />
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"There's something in the air<br />
And you don't know what it is<br />
You see someone through the window<br />
Who you've just learned to miss<br />
And the road leads on to glory but<br />
You've used up your last wish<br />
Your last wish<br />
And you want her to come home<br />"
===It's A Miricle===
This song is about how, under pressure, countries have stopped fighting because they want to keep up trade deals. Also, it tells about how some people chose to help people out instead of simply leaving them ("A doctor in Manhattan/Saved a dying man for free"). The song says, "By the grace of God Almighty/And the pressures of the marketplace/The human race has civilized itself", the line "By the grace of God Almighty" signifying that it hardly happens anymore that it is something, almost divine. It also has some lines about how Rogers strongly disliked Andrew Loydd Webber. Webber stole a thing from the [[Pink Floyd]] song Echos. Webber supposedly stole a part of the song and put it into one of his operas. On the matter, Waters stated,
{{CQuote}}Yeah, the beginning of that bloody Phantom song is from Echoes. *DAAAA-da-da-da-da-da* [sic]. I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature - it's 12/8 - and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything. B******. It probably is actionable. It really is! But I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew f***ing Lloyd Webber. <ref>http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/interview/roger2.html</ref>
So, Rogers wrote the following lines into the song,
"We cower in our shelters<br />
With our hands over our ears<br />
Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff<br />
Runs for years and years and years<br />
An earthquake hits the theater<br />
But the operetta lingers<br />
Then the piano lid comes down<br />
And breaks his f***ing fingers<br />
It's a miracle"
===Amused To Death===
This song is the last song on the album, coming after "It's A Miricle". In this song, there are people asking doctors why they are sick. It also asks why is TV so important, and why we keep it so high in our lives ("What is the heart life of a colour TV/What is the shelf life of a teenage queen"). It also says that we are becoming more emotionless as time goes on ("Attracted by the peeling away of feeling"). Then, it goes on to having aliens coming down to earth and finding Earth completly dead. The aliens are confused and conduct many tests, which is futile at figuring out any information. (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".) It then says that the only reason is that, "This species has amused itself to death", refering to humans being stuck to the TV and other media.
== Charts ==
== Charts ==
== External links ==
== External links ==
Please note, some of the links contain language not sutible for young children.
* [http://www.rogerwaters.org/atdanalysis.html Song-by-song analysis of the album]
* [http://www.rogerwaters.org/atdanalysis.html Song-by-song analysis of the album]
* [http://www.lyricsdownload.com/waters-roger-late-home-tonight-part-i-lyrics.html Late Home Tonight, Part I Lyrics]
* [http://www.lyricsdownload.com/waters-roger-late-home-tonight-part-i-lyrics.html Late Home Tonight, Part I Lyrics]
* [http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/roger_waters/late_home_tonight_part_ii.html Late Home Tonight, Part II Lyrics]
* [http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/roger_waters/late_home_tonight_part_ii.html Late Home Tonight, Part II Lyrics]
* [http://www.lyricsdepot.com/roger-waters/too-much-rope.html Too Much Rope Lyrics]
* [http://www.lyricscafe.com/w/waters_roger/what_god_wants_part_ii.html What God Wants, Part II Lyrics]
* [http://www.lyricscafe.com/w/waters_roger/what_god_wants_part_ii.html What God Wants, Part II Lyrics]
* [http://www.hotlyrics.net/lyrics/R/Roger_Waters/What_God_Wants__Part_III.html What God Wants, Part III Lyrics]
* [http://www.hotlyrics.net/lyrics/R/Roger_Waters/What_God_Wants__Part_III.html What God Wants, Part III Lyrics]
* [http://www.lyricsdownload.com/waters-roger-watching-tv-lyrics.html Watching TV Lyrics]
* [http://www.lyricsdepot.com/roger-waters/three-wishes.html Three Wishes Lyrics]
* [http://www.lyricsdepot.com/roger-waters/its-a-miracle.html It's A Miracle Lyrics]
* [http://www.lyricsdepot.com/roger-waters/amused-to-death.html Amused To Death Lyrics]
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