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In 2015, when I read about the new David Gilmour album, the title Rattle that Lock made me think. Rattling a lock on a cage was similar to what I needed to do. I should write the story, make some noise about it, and free myself.
At the beginning of the instrumental song “Five A.M.”, the first song on the album, you hear what sounds like a cage opening. On the album cover, there is an image of an opened cage on a gold field, and birds that had flown out. The bright gold-colored field reminded me of the field on the cover of The Division Bell album, which represents the Sting song “Fields of Gold”. It encouraged me to start to write the story.
Keeping it all to myself was a huge burden. For so long, it was difficult to put the story, and clues together, because I still hadn’t figured it all out. In one of my older letters to Gilmour, I wrote that at 5 am I would wake up with a sense of creativity, then I’d go back to sleep.
Another reason that I finally decided to write the story, was due to the song titled “Dancing Right In Front of Me”, lyrics by David Gilmour. The title immediately reminded me of the Pink Floyd concert in ‘94, when I was directly in front of him. If you’ve been reading so far, you can easily interpret his lyrics:
In 2017, I finally took a chance. I started this website, and I still take one day at a time writing. Everything I knew has always been inside me. It hasn’t been easy to carry around all these years, but I’m to tell it, so that I can have a brighter path. Gilmour wants to watch me fly too, and finally be free. His lyrics tell how he’s stuck waiting, and being watched, which explains how he can’t say anything about it all yet. But he’s waiting for the stars to align, which tells how rock “stars” giving clues with music, will help me to be believed, and get the story out.
Regarding that song, Gilmour commented to Mojo Magazine: “It’s a hard thing to try to write something that means something to you. Reflecting an idea of what you want and hope, for your kids, and to try to not become mawkish or hectoring.”
I was stunned hearing the song. It was a bold move by him. He can’t say anything about me, but he spoke through the song. He was very direct, and told many details. I wish he had shown me a clearer plainer truth though, the puzzle pieces were even difficult for me to find. I’m not at all surprised that he said the song was for his kids. The song gives a message of hope, and guidance to everyone.
On the Rattle that Lock tour on July 25, 2016, during the concert in Wrocław Poland, “Dancing Right In Front of Me” was played live for the first time. That was very significant to me because of my polish ancestry.
****NOTE: Read the last chapter (in progress now) about the new song “A Piper’s Call” and how it pertains to the song “Rattle That Lock” and songs from The Division Bell.
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