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A
GREAT DAY FOR FREEDOM
Concept:
People experiencing new freedom, yet having their optimism give way to disappointment
with the slowness of change.
Comment: The artwork for this song shows the date November 1989, when the
Berlin Wall opened up. The page number in the CD booklet is "elf", which
is German for eleven, shown by two little heads that look away from each
other. The paper heads formed from crumpled newspaper seem to repeat the
theme. Some fans have suggested that the left head represents black Americans
(notice the dark face and the X, a sign of emancipation), and the right
head represents the president who proclaimed their Emancipation, Abraham
Lincoln, whose profile is visible. Comment:
The lyrics express the sense of frustration and disappointment that has
often followed the attainment of some new freedom. David Gilmour spoke about
the situation in Eastern Europe when the Berlin Wall came freeing Eastern
Europe from the non-democratic side of the socialist system , only to have
left the population with a situation that isn't much better.
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