The Fletcher Memorial Home
The Fletcher Memorial Home

Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home Lyrics

In this searing critique, Pink Floyd targets political leaders who perpetuate war, corruption, and exploitation. The lyrics envision a "home" for these figures, symbolizing a prison for their unchecked power and egotism.👑 The references to Reagan,… Read more

Mar 21, 1983
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The Fletcher Memorial Home Music Video

The Fletcher Memorial Home Lyrics

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.

And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real.
It's the only connection they feel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
"Hello Maggie!"
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
"Who's the bald chap?"
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
"Good-bye!"
And now, adding color, a group of anonymous latin-
American Meat packing glitterati.

Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
They can polish their medals and sharpen their
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile.
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead.

Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.

Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.

Writer(s): ROGER WATERS
Copyright(s): Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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What is the Meaning of The Fletcher Memorial Home?

In this searing critique, Pink Floyd targets political leaders who perpetuate war, corruption, and exploitation. The lyrics envision a "home" for these figures, symbolizing a prison for their unchecked power and egotism.👑 The references to Reagan, Thatcher, and others underscore the global reach of the band's disdain, painting these leaders as disconnected from reality, only affirmed by their own closed-circuit TV appearances. The song's biting sarcasm "applauds" these tyrants, relegating them to a fantasized asylum where they can indulge their delusions.💣 The closing lines allude ominously to a "final solution," hinting at a bleak resolution for humanity's misplaced trust in such figures, while contrasting the innocence lost due to their actions.

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