In this part of the story, the man dreams that he moves into a cabin in the woods with the mysterious hitchhiker woman. Unfortunately, things don’t work out, and this proves to be the end of the road for this ill-fated affair. I’ve decided to post the lyrics to the song these pictures are based off of — “Go Fishing” — to better help you understand the narrative at play. The lyrics are, of course, the intellectual property of Roger Waters.
Buckle up, because this is where things get intense.
(Spoken words: “As cars go by I cast my mind’s eye
Over back packs on roof racks
Beyond the horizon
Where dream makers
Working white plastic processors
Invite the unwary
To reach for the pie in the sky
Go fishing my boy!”)
We set out in the spring
With a trunk full of books about everything
About solar devices
And how nice natural childbirth is
We cut down some trees
And we trailed our ideals
Through the forest glade
We dammed up the stream
And the kids cooled their heels
In the fishing pool we’d made
We held hands and we exchanged bands
And we practically lived off the land
You adopted a fox cub
Whose mother was somebody’s coat
You fed him by hand
And then snuggled him down
In the grandfather bed while I wrote
We grew our own maize
And I only occasionally went into town
To stock up on antibiotics
And shells for the shotgun that I kept around
I told the kids stories
While you worked your loom
And the sun went down sooner each day.
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Man: “Chapter six, in which Eeyore has a birthday
And gets two presents…”
*The sound of a joint being lit*
Child: “Daddy…come on dad!”
Man: “…Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side
Of the stream and he looked at himself in the water
“Pathetic” he said, “That’s what it is”
“Good morning Eeyore” said Pooh
“Oh” said Pooh, He thought for a long time.”)
The leaves all fell down
Our crops all turned brown
It was over
As the first snowflakes fell
I realised all was not well in the camp
The kids caught bronchitis
The space heater ran out of diesel
One weekend a friend from the East
Rot his soul
Stole your heart
I said “Fuck it then!
Take the kids back to town
Maybe I’ll see you around”
And so…leaving all our hopes and dreams
To the wind and the rain
Taking only our stash
Left our litter and trash
And set out on the road again
On the road again
(Spoken:
Child: “Bye bye, Daddy! Bye bye!”)
4 replies on “A Night of Clarity, Pt. VII”
Kind of sad, isn’t it? In two out of 3 drawings, the children have no facial features. Is there a reason for that?
I was unsure about how ‘real’ the children were in the context of the narrative. They aren’t mentioned in anyway until the sixth song on the album, in which the hitchhiker woman and the man fantasize about moving into the country. After “Go Fishing” they just vanish from the story all together. We don’t see enough of the waking world over the course of the album to know whether or not the man and his wife have children — so it’s possible they simply start and cease to exist during part of the dream.
Now, if I understand correctly, Roger Waters had at least one kid at the time of this album’s creation. However, as much as the main character reflects Waters’ experiences with love and loss the main character isn’t Roger. He’s somebody else. So I can’t really use that to judge the ‘realness’ of the children in the story, either.
I decided not to give them facial expressions to highlight their un-realness. Or partial realness. However, I found it was much easier to communicate how sick they were by giving them facial features.
One last pedantic note: The children are in four drawings. They’re easy to miss, but they’re in the second to the last drawing standing next to the hitch-hiker woman. The fox cub is also standing by them — apparently the hitchhiker woman got custody of it.
Really enjoyed this post. Liked the tone set by use and change of color. Also, to me anyway, by not putting in the details of the faces in a couple of the panels, like the kids in the pool, it helps to draw the viewer into that scene to enjoy the beauty of that moment being experienced by the people by enabling the viewer to reflect on their own experiences. If details of facial expressions had been added, emotions would have been dictated.
Returning to the blue tones for the ending was a nice way to end after all those emotional reds. Not having the music on itself to feel it as well, was their a struggle not to end in red, or did the ending come naturally?
Well, it works on a couple of levels. First, the end of the song isn’t quite as violent as the part of the song where everything goes wrong. It sort of simmers in a cooler sort of anger and then ends on a fairly quiet note with dialogue you can barely hear. The next song has the character’s anger fading away and his sadness coming to the forefront — so the purple tones in the last drawing are both a conclusion and a segue.
However, the last image is also a direct homage to the original album cover of The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking. The big difference being that the dreaming man has taken the place of the hitchhiker woman. To me, this song is sort of the crux of the album — more so than even the title track which is obviously a ‘radio friendly single.’ So I thought this was the right spot to reference this image and I also didn’t think it would be done justice in shades of red.
If you’ve forgotten what the cover looks like, go ahead and give it a Google search. Be warned that the original uncensored cover is NSFW.