Stop (Pink Floyd song)

"Stop" is a song from the 1979 Pink Floyd album, The Wall. It was written by Roger Waters.^[1][2]

"Stop"
Song by Pink Floyd
from the album The Wall
Published	Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
Released	30 November 1979 (UK) 8 December 1979 (US)
Recorded	April–November 1979
Genre	Art rock
Length	0:30
Label	Harvest Records (UK) Columbia Records (US)/Capitol Records (US)
Songwriter(s)	Roger Waters
Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie and Roger Waters

Plot

Pink is tired of his life as a fascist dictator and the hallucination ends. Also tired of "The Wall", he accordingly devolves into his own mind and puts himself on trial.

Film version

After "Waiting for the Worms", Pink screams out "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, at the time, unreleased material written by Waters. The line "Do you remember me / How we used to be / Do you think we should be closer?", comes from "Your Possible Pasts". Other lines come from "5:11AM (The Moment of Clarity)". As Pink finishes the lyrics to "Stop", the security guard seen in the segment for "Young Lust" slowly pushes open the stall door, which leads to the animated intro of "The Trial".

Personnel

• Roger Waters – vocals
• Bob Ezrin – piano^[3]

Further reading

• Fitch, Vernon (2005). The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 1894959248. OCLC 61717590.

References

1. Strong, Martin Charles (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). New York: Canongate U.S. p. 1177. ISBN 1841956155. OCLC 56977197.
2. Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus. ISBN 071194301X. OCLC 32740297.
3. Fitch, Vernon; Mahon, Richard (2006). Comfortably Numb: A History of "The Wall" 1978-1981 (1st ed.). St. Petersburg, Fla.: PFA Pub. p. 109. ISBN 9780977736607. OCLC 77117708.