Stop (Pink Floyd song)

Song infobox
Name = Stop


Artist = Pink Floyd
Album = The Wall
Released = 30 November 1979 (US), 8 December 1979 (UK)
track_no = 11 of disc 2
Recorded = April-November, 1979
Genre = Art rock/Progressive rock
Length = 0:30
Writer = Waters
Label = Harvest Records (UK)
Columbia Records (US)/Capitol Records (US)
Producer = Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour and Roger Waters
prev = "Waiting for the Worms"
prev_no = 10 of disc 2
next = "The Trial"
next_no = 12 of disc 2"Stop" is a song on the Pink Floyd album, "The Wall". It was written by Roger Waters

Pink is tired of his life as a fascist dictator and the hallucination ends. He is also tired of The Wall, and puts himself on trial in his head. The song is also about the realization he has that everything that led up to his wall may have been his own fault, hence the line "Have I been guilty all this time"

The song is 30 seconds long and is the shortest Pink Floyd song.

Film version

After "Waiting for the Worms", Pink literally calls for a 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 then unreleased material both written by Waters (The line "Do you remember me / How we used to be / Do you think we should be closer?", from "Your Possible Pasts" and others from ""). As Pink finishes the lyrics to "Stop", the security guard seen in the segment for "Young Lust" slowly pushes open the stall door, of which leads to animated intro of "The Trial".

Personnel

*Roger Waters - vocals [Fitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, "Comfortably Numb - A History of The Wall 1978-1981", 2006, p. 109]
*Bob Ezrin - piano [Fitch and Mahon, p. 109]

References

* Fitch, Vernon. The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd edition), 2005. ISBN 1-894959-24-8