"Stop" is a song from the 1979
Pink Floyd
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album, ''
The Wall
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''. It was written by
Roger Waters.
Plot
Pink is tired of his life as a
fascist
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dictator and the hallucination ends. Also tired of "The Wall", he accordingly devolves into his own mind and puts himself on trial.
Film version
After "
Waiting for the Worms
"Waiting for the Worms" (working title "Follow the Worms") is a song from the 1979 Pink Floyd album ''The Wall''. It is preceded by "Run Like Hell" and followed by " Stop".
Composition and plot
At this point in the album, protagonist Pink has lo ...
", Pink screams out "stop", where we find him sitting at the bottom of a bathroom stall. He seems to be reading the lyrics from a sheet of paper where a few of the lines come from, at the time, unreleased material written by Waters. The line "Do you remember me / How we used to be / Do you think we should be closer?", comes from "
Your Possible Pasts
"Your Possible Pasts" (mislabeled as "Your Impossible Pasts" on a radio promo single) is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album '' The Final Cut''. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, '' Echoes: The Best of Pi ...
". Other lines come from "
5:11AM (The Moment of Clarity)"). As Pink finishes the lyrics to "Stop", the security guard seen in the segment for "
Young Lust" slowly pushes open the stall door, which leads to the animated intro of "
The Trial
''The Trial'' (german: Der Process, link=no, previously , and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and p ...
".
Personnel
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Roger Waters – vocals
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Bob Ezrin
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– piano
Further reading
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References
Pink Floyd songs
1979 songs
Songs written by Roger Waters
Rock ballads
Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
Song recordings produced by David Gilmour
Song recordings produced by Roger Waters
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