However, I thought it interesting that the book talked a lot about the anti-psychiatry movement. Again, I do not any finite interpretations of this song. I recently read a couple of essays from a book called Speak To Me: The Legacy Of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. I love Pink Floyd because they deal with something that I think still is not dealt with enough and that is metal illness. Song MeaningI have a lot of ideas over what this song means. "He locks the door and throw away the key" (the 'lunatic' takes control over your aware 'self'), "there's someone in my head, but it's not me" (again, the 'lunatic' is not a part of what you consider to be yourself, but it IS an essential part of you, and there's no use to trying to supress it).Īgain, that's just my interpretation, but I'm curious to see if anybody has thought of it that way. And when he says "he raise the blade" (a demonstration that the 'crazy person' takes control of him), "he makes the change" (the lunatic, when "summoned", changes the very essence of you), "he rearrenges me 'till i'm sane" (again, the 'lunatic' is an essencial part to the keeping of your mental health). To me, when he says "The lunatic is in my head", he's saying that the 'lunatic', or the 'crazy person' that does not match with society is an essencial part of him. Most of the people are associating the verse "The lunatic is my head" to a lobotomy or how society changes you, but I see it in a totally different way. The light and dark imagery - we hear that at the end of Well, I know you posted this 8 years ago and will probably not read my answer, but I feel a strong need to post my interpretation. And the moon itself is split between a bright side and a dark side, slowly moving between the two. The moon has often been associated with Insanity and darkness. "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" - Roger felt he could relate to Barrett's own feelings, and also to our own madness. I've always interpreted it that Roger was guilty of leaving Barrett behind. We get another clear Barrett reference hear, which needs no explaining. But this chorus is now in the second person, and we are the lunatic. Why then does the thunder only go in one ear and (presumably) not the other? It's a strong and terrible force, and when you shout for help "no-one seems to hear". The end of the song is about a "cloud burst", a huge and powerful force. Just like Syd Barrett being left behind by the band, and as his own song 'Dark Globe' shows, you shouldn't get the impression Syd wasn't aware of himself. The last part ("You lock the door and throw away the key") says we abandon and repress insanity, as though it is the victim's fault when it isn't. But it shows how society will try to fix and "rearrange" people and questions the need for this. "You raise the blade" and "make the change" does indeed imply brain surgery, but it could be psychological. The other verse is actually told in the first person, a person who is mad. It also asks us what'll happen if the same thing happens to us, and says that's if that's the case "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon". If disaster strikes and "the dam breaks open many years too soon" and there is limited refuge "on the hill", it leaves a silent question as to what would happen to the people in society that we don't value. The first chorus builds up to the title line of the album. Essentially doing the same unnatural thing to many naturally different individiuals. Repressing insanity and trying to keep people in place becomes routine, as "every day the paper boy brings more". Then we have the lunatic being mentioned again, but we discover he is only one of several "lunatics" being held down and repressed. Insanity is looked on as stepping off the boundaries of accepted society ("the path"). So the man who is considered insane is sitting on the forbidden turf, in his own happy world of "games and daisy chains and laughs". "The lunatic is on the grass" - this is obviously a reference to the notorious "Keep off the grass" signs. And when I say deep analysis, I don't mean vigorous, I mean emotionally deep. The Dark Side of the Moon has very deep lyrics and they deserve better than that.
Shallow analysis involves trying to pick out things like every possible drugs reference. General CommentOnly shallow lyrics deserve shallow analysis.
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