Album: The Final Cut (1983)

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• In my rear view mirror the sun is going down
  Sinking behind bridges in the road
  And I think of all the good things
  That we have left undone
  And I suffer premonitions
  Confirm suspicions
  Of the holocaust to come.
  
  The wire that holds the cork
  That keeps the anger in
  Gives way
  And suddenly it's day again.
  The sun is in the east
  Even though the day is done.
  Two suns in the sunset
  Hmm
  Could be the human race is run.
  
  Like the moment when the brakes lock
  And you slide towards the big truck
  "Oh no!"
  "Daddy, Daddy!"
  You stretch the frozen moments with your fear.
  And you'll never hear their voices
  And you'll never see their faces
  You have no recourse to the law anymore.
  
  And as the windshield melts
  My tears evaporate
  Leaving only charcoal to defend.
  Finally I understand the feelings of the few.
  Ashes and diamonds
  Foe and friend
  We were all equal in the end.
  
  "And now the weather. Tomorrow will be cloudy with scattered showers
  Spreading from the east with an expected high of 4000 degrees
  Celsius" Writer/s: ROGER WATERS
  Publisher: Sentric Music
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Shane from Bloomington-normal, IlNick Mason didn't play drums on this track. It is instead Andy Newmark, who then played on Roger's _Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking_ album.
• Javi D. from New York, NyI absolutely love this song - for some reason at the end of the long days of work and toil, this song will pretty much sum up how I feel - sarcastically nihilistic.
  
  Roger Waters may have smothered Gilmour on this album, in this song you feel Gilmour's restrained riffs powerfully hit you. Not the greatest, but this entire album sure is worth listening to.
• Liquid Len from Ottawa, Ns"we were all equal in the end" means that no matter how right we were and how wrong our opponents were, in the end, we're both going to be dead. Kind of nihilistic.
• Rod from Logan, Njthis song is awesome all around ...best band ever
• Floyd from The Dark Side Of The Moon, Otherthat last line "we were all equal in the end" might even be a hint at the relationship between Waters and Gilmour, and how they both end up equal no matter what happens.
• Kevan from Bolton, Englandashes and diamonds, foe and friend...we WERE all equal in the end !!! or... whats the point of either side trying to wipe out the other when the only way to win would be to wipe out us all!
• Bryan from New York, Ny"as the windshield melts, and my tears evaporate." Roger wasn't trying to be too subtle there. I like the sax solo at the end, and the drumming, even though it's not Nick. For some reason I find the sax solo at the end upbeat, even though it's about the apocalypse...
• Michael from OxfordGreat scream around 2:32-34...
• Rogério from Curitiba, BrazilExactly... It's obvious that the other sun is a nuclear bomb... "And as the windshield melts
  And my tears evaporate..." corroborate this point of view.

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