", a dog biting meat off a hook then consumed by a larger one (from the Animals tour), and the famous goose-stepping hammer sequence, we see Pink yell "Stop".

From the megaphone, Waters's rant lapses into incomprehensibility, while the music and the crowd's chanting grows louder. Waiting to put on a black shirt. Made with Windows Movie Maker

), (? He then shouts through a megaphone while his followers march through the street. As the fascist dictator shows increasing desperation, louder and angrier, there is a whip pan in to the hammers, and as the camera pans there is a sudden, loud, abrupt instrumental sound, which is quickly replaced by a piano. Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell & Waiting For the Worms - YouTube The song is a slow, leaden march in G Major, begun with David Gilmour and Roger Waters alternating calm and strident voices, respectively. (23) THE WALL: Pink Floyd - Waiting For The Worms - YouTube The full, uncut animation shown at the concert begins with a cartoon image of a hill. Finally, the song abruptly halts with a shout of "Stop!". Waiting to weed out the weaklings. ", In 2010, Dublin band Twinkranes covered the song for a, This page was last edited on 20 August 2020, at 13:28.

An abandoned playground is shown as the final verse is sung. "Waiting for the Worms" (working title "Follow the Worms") is a song from the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall.

\r\rSong #23 \r(Disk 2) \r\r\"Waiting For The Worms\" \r\rCreate playlist to entire CD. In his hallucination, he is a fascist dictator, fomenting racist outrage and violence, as begun in the preceding song, "Run Like Hell". Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Roger Waters' Poetry of the Absent Father: British Identity in Pink Floyd's, "Full Albums: Pink Floyd's The Wall, Pt. Waiting to follow the worms.

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As you do. Then, an abandoned tricycle is shown, as "Would you like to send..." and the rest of that verse is sung. Through a megaphone, he barks forceful invectives ("Waiting to put on a black shirt ... for the queers and the coons and the reds and the Jews"). The Wall is a rock opera, telling the story of Pink, a man who builds a metaphorical wall around him, isolating him from the rest of the world. The Wall Live 1980–81, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waiting_for_the_Worms&oldid=973994770, Song recordings produced by David Gilmour, Articles needing additional references from July 2012, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Jorge Sacido Romero and Luis Miguel Varela Cabo opined that "Waiting for the Worms" represented Waters' fears of a "potential ideological drift towards an ultranationalist, imperialist and racist stand that calls for the resurrection of a Britannia that is both pure and almighty.

The song would build up until the lights extinguish in preparation to introduce the "Pink puppet" that sings "Stop". At long last it is revealed that the objects on the hill, what possibly scared the children and what was under the viaduct, are marching hammers.

", Finally, the song changes into a minor-key musical theme: root, major second, minor third, major second—that has recurred throughout the album, as the main theme to "Another Brick in the Wall", the instrumental section of "Hey You", and will be heard in the album's climax, "The Trial". [1][2] It is preceded by "Run Like Hell" and followed by "Stop". Later concerts, performed by Waters after his departure from the band, featured a similar scene. From the motion picture The Wall, by Pink Floyd. The imagery features a live action segment with some teenagers (the same ones from "In the Flesh?") Backing singers provided Gilmour's lines, and, in the 2010-2013 tour of The Wall, ending with the marching hammers filling the entire wall. Waiting to smash in their windows And kick in their doors. running over a rag doll replica of Pink.

In the concerts of The Wall, a member of Pink Floyd, often Waters, would wear a leather trenchcoat.