Lyrics for Atom Heart Mother as interpreted by Demau Senae

Atom Heart Mother Lyrics
"Here is a loud announcement"
"Silence in the studio!"
(Instrumental)

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killingFloor
08-23-2002

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thanks to Demau Senae who wrote the unique words of this impressive opera. i didn't manage to understand them.
this song is in some way related to neuclear weapons or nuclear power. but what represent the six parts of the song: a) Father's shout, b) Breast milky, c) Mother fore, d) Funky dung, e) Mind your throats please, f) Remergence
random title...? don't think so.
i would say that remergence is immediately after the explosion but it isn't... any idea?


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guardian183
06-27-2003

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I think it's about both: part a), Father's shout, is the kind of ominous part at the beginning, like a rumor of war that's started by the people in charge (the "fathers" of the world). Breast Milky starts when the peice randomly goes into the smooth, calming tunes after a couple of measures of dissonance. This is the typical disociation from what's really going on that most people go through during times of war. It continues until the motorcycle, where mother fore takes over, ie, where there's a constant sense of panic, worry, and depression about what's going to happen. This is also the part of the song where the actual war takes place. As I see it, this is the greater majority of the suite. Towards the end, there's a hope that it will all be over soon, but instead it's followed by the oddness of Funky Dung. This peice represents the literal a figurative fallout of the war. Not somewhere you want to be. Following Funky dung is the odd mixture of Mind your throats. It's a convolution of everything previous in the album mixed in a way. At this particular point, there is really no law or order, just people trying to stay alive by any means possible. Probably lots of betrayals and assasinations going on at this time, so you should "watch your throat" - you never know who's out to slit it. Finally, it resolves into Remergeance, which starts as the triumph of someone taking control, or having order, then backs off. Order restored, civilization can now continue, starting off weak, as life typically does, and grows into the full matuirty of a new civilization, having risen from the ashes of it's fallen predecessors.

Of course, I wrote this while listening to the song, and I interpretted without doing any prior research. All of this could actually the be furthest thing from the truth, but, that's how I interpretted the song.

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evilfish42
04-11-2004

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Some nice theories, but the song does not have any meaning whatsoever (According to the Pink Floyd members themselves). The song's main motive started as a "theme to a non-existent western" written as no more than a joke. Add in some jam sessions, choir parts, and orchestration by Ron Geesin and you have the song.
The title was actually taken from a random newspaper article (about a mother with an atomic pacemaker) because it sounded good.

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Creep2k
07-05-2004

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..no.. its all about mushrooms.. magic shrooms

first of all, the whole ATOM HEART MOTHER ALBUM is.. the cow in the front: its the animal that poops the shit, from where the shrooms grow.. and the song is about the shroom trip... the funky dung, is the funky poop from where one takes the shroom.. mind your throats, please, cuz it tastes real weird.. remergence, when you come back to reality... its an explosion, yeah.. cuz a shroom looks like an ATOMIC BOMB.. doesnt it?
and if you look at it from the top, its got the shape of a heart...
so the cow is the ATOM HEART MOTHER..

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Fancyscope
10-07-2004

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Atom Heart Mother:
The album title looks as if it entrusts a free association to listeners. As for me, I think that it is three element of all things - atom as the physical world and phenomenon, heart as the metaphysical world and consciousness, and mother as energy to produce everything.

I feel they aimed at a variety of scenes that may be conjured up in the listener's mind. What I was conjured up in my mind is Gaia hypothesis.

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Publius
11-25-2004

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The title was taken simply from a newspaper article about a woman who had an atomic powered pacemaker.
Publius.

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toolmusik
12-17-2004

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Publius has it right, I'm afraid. Pink Floyd was still in the processing stage for this album when they found a newspaper headline that stated a woman got a pacemaker for her heart that was powered by atomic energy so she could survive childbirth. Hence the term ATOM HEART MOTHER. It's as simple as that. No shrooms, no hallucinagens, just a newspaper clipping.

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telmodecarvalho
02-19-2005

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ATOM HEART MOTHER ? What is it ?

Is this
http://www.godsign.org/AtomHeartMother/

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SlayerMaggot
07-01-2005

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First of all it is most likely a long theme (23 minutes) to a non-existent Western film, but the part of "Mind Your Throats, Please" -- could be the representation of the Underground in London... Take note that at the end you may hear something moving along rails, but it then becomes faint... Otherwise, the rest of it is kinda indeterminate, with no real mention of what part goes where.

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toolmusik
07-24-2005

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This song is actually called "Atom Heart Mother Suite". Not "Atom Heart Mother".

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crashkaboom
04-15-2006

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I love how this song sounds like it would be used in a movie.

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inpraiseoffolly
05-04-2006

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This is an absolutely amazing song on a very good album by the same title. A mix of multiple different music genres (I'm not a music genious, so I don't know them all, but psychadelic and prog rock are definitely there). Among my top 4 instrumentals of all time:

1Lucifer- Alan Parsons Project
2One of These Days- Pink Floyd
3Careful With That Axe, Eugene-Pink Floyd
4Atom Heart Mother Suite- Pink Floyd

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inpraiseoffolly
06-02-2006

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Or not, I don't really know anymore (about it being in the top 4 instrumentals of all time).

However, there is a superior 15 minute version of the song without the orchestra. Blasphemy on my part? maybe. But I still prefer the other verion.

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Grind838
06-23-2006

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This song takes longer than 'Echoes'!!!

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inpraiseoffolly
06-28-2006

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But not as good.

Excellent though, I got a friend onto PF's trail with this song. It's still his favorite of theirs (go figure).

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inpraiseoffolly
06-28-2006

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excellent song to multitask to

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inpraiseoffolly
07-09-2006

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This song is a lot like Echoes (and therefore, SoYcD). Unlike the other two, where they are SoYcD is a reincarnation of Echoes (read my Echoes post on either page 5 or page 6), this song is more a jumble of many (but not all) of the parts of Echoes (and, therefore, SoYcD).

It is rather unstructured (as compared to the other two), and not very refined (whereas Echoes is mildly refined and SoYcD is ultra-refined). However, I can still hear parts of this song in Echoes (not as much in SoYcD).

It seems to me that the song evolved over time, getting better with each reincarnation (though I prefer Echoes to SoYcD, it is little question that SoYcD is, at least technically, better than Echoes).

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Grind838
07-16-2006

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I like how the distorted voice says: "Silence in the studio!" But was that an accident or something?

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IceageHeatwave
08-10-2006

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this song sucks, as does the album; give me "piper" "meddle", "animals"; f*ck it any other album even resembling Floyd over this crapola. ZERO

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inpraiseoffolly
08-25-2006

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The distorted voice also says "here is a loud announcement" followed by a bomb going off, or something like that, a little earlier in the song.

Maybe 15:30 in or so.

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LouDawg808
10-12-2006

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The director of "A Clock Work Orange" acually wanted to use this song in the movie. He asked them but Pink Floyd turned him down. But would later regret it.

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SpunkySkunk347
02-20-2007

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It's about nothing. Pink Floyd just wanted to sample different types of music throughout the entire "Atom Heart Mother" album and this song reflects that.

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TidewaterHippie
04-09-2007

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it is a great song.....ittakes a lot of mental toughness to be able to sit for almost half an hour and listen to it, but it is a really good song...there are different parts in the song where the instruments blend together perfectly

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phasetransition
07-21-2007

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I'd have to go with the mushroom theory :)

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alanspsychedelic
07-30-2007

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turn up your headphones at 18:40. tell me what you hear because i heard DMT 3 times clearly (mind your throats please) anyone because if youve ever smoked it it feels like glass shards,and some might say you emerge when you come down because it feels like dying or being drowned.
as for the rest im sure the whole mushroom theory drug thing some assume behind this album is probably correct, maybe thats y they didnt like this album

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