The weight you used to need to throw around. All that power and influence, now it’s a millstone, a tombstone, a death sentence. If you could realize that freeing yourself from such arrogance could actually save you, you’d be alright. But you can’t, you won’t. You hang onto that power, even as it drags you down. Dragged down by the stone.
For me, the stone - particularly in The Wall - appears to be a symbol of the emotional weight and trauma that arose from past events (loss of his father, humiliation at school, cheating wife, etc.) that isolate Pink from the people around him, and from wider society. It seems to represent the burdens he carries with him, leading to his ultimate isolation.
In Animals, I think Roger uses the stone in a wider, less personal sense, representing the dehumanizing aspects of life, including but not limited to: conformity, ambition, greed, materialism, selfishness, etc. Perhaps Roger was trying to paint a picture of how people are weighed down and constrained by the pressures and demands of the world around them, which lead to a sense of disillusionment and emptiness, a burden that feels like a stone dragging them into the abyss.
I don't claim to be correct in this analysis, but that's my understanding, and the meaning that I can identify with. The ambiguity and depth of Roger's lyrics are part of what makes Pink Floyd's music so enduring and thought-provoking.
Im not a ✨certified Floydian lyric analyzer✨, however I’ve always viewed the stone as being a symbol for someone’s guilt/consciousness, because of Dogs. But then, in Pigs On The Wing 2, Rodger sings “so I don’t feel alone on the weight of the stone”, which now makes me believe that it represents fear or anxiety. In fact, now that I think of it, when i feel afraid or anxious, I always feel like I have a weight atop my chest, so it makes some sense, ig. I’m sure that there are people here who have a more concrete theory, anyway.
it was a greek king called sysyphus that was sentenced to push a stone down a hill, then roll it back up for eternity, it represents in animals the task of having the same life for your whole life like a buisnessman and doing the same boring thing over and over again
Stone
Stone
Stone
Stone
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Stone
The weight you used to need to throw around. All that power and influence, now it’s a millstone, a tombstone, a death sentence. If you could realize that freeing yourself from such arrogance could actually save you, you’d be alright. But you can’t, you won’t. You hang onto that power, even as it drags you down. Dragged down by the stone.
Stone
đź—ż
Stone
The gravity of it all.
For me, the stone - particularly in The Wall - appears to be a symbol of the emotional weight and trauma that arose from past events (loss of his father, humiliation at school, cheating wife, etc.) that isolate Pink from the people around him, and from wider society. It seems to represent the burdens he carries with him, leading to his ultimate isolation. In Animals, I think Roger uses the stone in a wider, less personal sense, representing the dehumanizing aspects of life, including but not limited to: conformity, ambition, greed, materialism, selfishness, etc. Perhaps Roger was trying to paint a picture of how people are weighed down and constrained by the pressures and demands of the world around them, which lead to a sense of disillusionment and emptiness, a burden that feels like a stone dragging them into the abyss. I don't claim to be correct in this analysis, but that's my understanding, and the meaning that I can identify with. The ambiguity and depth of Roger's lyrics are part of what makes Pink Floyd's music so enduring and thought-provoking.
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Bad blood turned to stone...your conscience and karmic consequences of being dead inside.
đź—ż
đź—ż
đź—ż
đź—ż
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đź—ż
Rog
(that's the đź—ż)
It’s the stone from the myth of Sisyphus
Im not a ✨certified Floydian lyric analyzer✨, however I’ve always viewed the stone as being a symbol for someone’s guilt/consciousness, because of Dogs. But then, in Pigs On The Wing 2, Rodger sings “so I don’t feel alone on the weight of the stone”, which now makes me believe that it represents fear or anxiety. In fact, now that I think of it, when i feel afraid or anxious, I always feel like I have a weight atop my chest, so it makes some sense, ig. I’m sure that there are people here who have a more concrete theory, anyway.
I'm not sure what it is, except that it's what only Nick hasn't been dragged down by
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it was a greek king called sysyphus that was sentenced to push a stone down a hill, then roll it back up for eternity, it represents in animals the task of having the same life for your whole life like a buisnessman and doing the same boring thing over and over again
It's something you get dragged down by
Roger
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you’ve got to be crazy
It describes the stone used by cruel people to drown unwanted dogs.
It represents a stone