The Gunner's Dream

Name: The Gunner's Dream
Uploaded: 1983-01-01
Duration: 5 min 9 s
Description: Roger Waters wrote "The Gunner's Dream" for Pink Floyd's The Final Cut (1983), telling the story of an airman falling to his death and dreaming of a world without war. The lyrics reference the IRA's Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings and borrow "some corner of a foreign field" from Rupert Brooke's poem The Soldier.

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Roger Waters wrote "The Gunner's Dream" for Pink Floyd's The Final Cut (1983), telling the story of an airman falling to his death and dreaming of a world without war. The lyrics reference the IRA's Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings and borrow "some corner of a foreign field" from Rupert Brooke's poem The Soldier.