Pink Floyd – Up the Khyber

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  General Comment:This is honestly a throwaway track. Pink Floyd has done much better.
  
  And the poem:
  
  This on is called
  
  The Gold are Dead
  
  You can paper your birdcage
  with shavings of gold
  and bits of dollar bills
  what was wealth in days of old

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  General Comment:The Khyber pass is a region where plants drugs are made of grow. Despite the drugs being the main topic of the film, this song is about anal sex (it's also showed during the anal sex scene in the movie).
  "Up the khyber" is slang, and, like k3boyle said, it means "Up the arse".
  
  Compare "Ummagumma", which is 60's/70's slang for sex.

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  General Comment:up the khyber means up the arse (as i saw it written since it was a brit that wrote it) but this song is not about that. it accompanies the movie that this is from where the charecters are going through the khyber pass which is a passage through the hindu kuch mountains leading from pakistan to afghanistan. tahts what he is talking about.

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  General Comment:That is true, what ThePython said

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  General Comment:This song was supposed to accompany a scene of anal sex. That's what "up the khyber" means.

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