"The Final Cut" | |
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![]() From the "Selections from The Final Cut" radio promotional single | |
Song by Pink Floyd | |
from the album The Final Cut | |
Published | Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd |
Released | 21 March 1983 (UK) 2 April 1983 (US) |
Recorded | July–December 1982 |
Genre | |
Length | 4:42 |
Label | Harvest (UK) Columbia (US) |
Songwriter(s) | Roger Waters |
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Music video | |
"The Final Cut" on YouTube |
"The Final Cut" is the title track from Pink Floyd's twelfth studio album, The Final Cut (1983). [1] [2]
This song tells of a man's social isolation, clinical depression, sexual repression and social rejection. At the end of the song he attempts suicide but "never had the nerve to make the final cut".
It has been speculated by some listeners that the song may be told from the perspective of Pink, the main character of The Wall (1979), after the events of that album.
"The Final Cut" is one of four songs (along with "The Hero's Return", "One of the Few", and "Your Possible Pasts") used in The Final Cut that had been previously rejected from The Wall . This song is included in the video version of the album The Final Cut Video EP. The song made an appearance as the B-side of the "Selections from The Final Cut" radio promotional single (with "Your Possible Pasts" on the A-side.) [3] [4] It also appears in the American film Strange Frame (2012).
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