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-Perfect Sense is the third and fourth tracks off of Roger Water's album [[Amused To Death]]. It is split up into two parts. When put together, the total length of the track is 7 minutes and 6 seconds.
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-==Perfect Sense, Part One==
-"Perfect Sense, Part One" is the thrid track on the album. It is preceeded by "[[What God Wants|What God Wants, Part One]]" and is followed by "Perfect Sense, Part Two". It is 4 minutes and 16 seconds. It is about holy wars. In the first part, it says "Memory's a stranger/History's for fools", which probabily is talking about the [[Crusades]] and relating it to George Bush Sr. going into the Persian Gulf. In the Crusades, the [[Pope]] told people that God was on their side to take over the Holy Land. However, they lost the Crusades. This is a comment that Roger Waters made regarding something Bush Sr. said:
-<blockquote>
-"I'm very upset by religious dogma, I get angry, gobsmacked in fact when I hear George Bush saying that God was on their side during the Gulf war. It's amazing that in 1992, one of the most powerful men in the world can reduce political rhetoric to that level. But that's what he has to do, to get votes and maintain power and then use that power to help the American automobile industry."
-</blockquote>
-Then, after the kid says "Mama Mama, the President's a fool", a line which indicates that he thinks that Bush was out of his mind when he said that comment. Then, after that, the people of power (Wall Street, Joint Cheifs of Staff, et cetera) all say that the kid is insane for thinking that ("Don't make us laugh, you're a smart kid"). The song ends with them giving "him command of a nuclear submarine/Sent him back in search of the Garden of Eden", suggesting that the Persian Gulf War was fought simply for relgious reasons.
-==Perfect Sense, Part Two==
-"Perfect Sense, Part Two" is the fourth track on the album. It comes after "Perfect Sense, Part One" and before "The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range". It is 2 minutes and 51 seconds. It is about how it would make perfect sense to attack because there would be money in the picture, as stated by the chorus of the song:
-"Can't you see<br />
-It all makes perfect sense<br />
-Expressed in dollars and cents,<br />
-Pounds, schillings, and pence<br />
-Can't you see<br />
-It all makes perfect sense"
-Also, you can hear the audio of what sounds to be a soccar game, but what is in fact talking about blowing up an oil rig. The fact that it is announced like a game suggests that people in power do not care that people die in war, and therefore, they think of war as simply a game.
-==See Also==
-[http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Perfect-Sense-Part-I-II-lyrics-Roger-Waters/A2D843CF7198E09B48256C05000AE9AB Song Lyrics]
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