Brain Damage

This song is a prophecy. All songs (and other creations) in life point us to the truth of what we are as one being, but this song plays a major role in it. Actually, all Pink Floyd songs do. This song prophesied the "end time" in which we find ourselves these days. The apocalypse.

THE LUNATIC IS ON THE GRASS REMEMBERING GAMES AND DAISY CHAINS AND LAUGHS GOT TO KEEP THE LOONIES ON THE PATH

At the time this album was written, Syd Barrett was labeled mentally ill, but he was more sane than all the rest of us. It refers to people like Syd, who are labeled "lunatic", and who - like already written here - are the misfits that are regarded as abnormal or who don't conform to society's rules, where society is a complex system in which people are conditioned to behave in a certain way.

The main method for strengthening this behavior is through social- and media-conditioning. In this case, people like Syd remember how much fun life was when we were children, but how much of a dread it has become when growing up and having to conform to society's insane rules. That way... people like Syd are trying to keep "the loonies" from straying too far from the right path.

THE LUNATIC IS IN THE HALL THE LUNATICS ARE IN THE HALL THE PAPER HOLDS THEIR FOLDED FACES TO THE FLOOR AND EVERY DAY THE PAPER BOY BRINGS MORE

"The hall" most likely refers to city hall: the politicians. The media ("the paper") are what's guiding them in this life, and driving us to despair with war, poverty, crime, homelessness, unemployment.

They are living a lie, and they want us to cooperate with them and their lies. And the media brings more and more of the insanity every day. Their "faces are folded" by all the lies in the media, almost literally, because we ourselves are information. Not only the media presents us with information, but everything in our physical world is information, including ourselves. Food too, for example. This is because everything we experience comes from our senses interpreting the light of the sun.

AND IF THE DAM BREAKS OPEN MANY YEARS TOO SOON AND IF THERE IS NO ROOM UPON THE HILL AND IF YOUR HEAD EXPLODES WITH DARK FOREBODINGS TOO I'LL SEE YOU ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

For Barrett, the dam broke open way too soon. The song was written in 1973, and the "end game" is of this time. The "dark forebodings" is what Barrett saw in his visions. We all have now been given to see these forebodings of what's to come too. They are 9/11, Madrid, London, Sandy Hook, Boston. These are all staged terror attacks (with Sandy Hook and Boston being the most obvious of them), by which the United States will advance their "world agenda".

This is all because of what the "dark side of the moon" specifically refers to. It's the actual dark side of the moon, and the symbolic meaning of what is hiding there. It is something that is controlling our minds, and has created an entire reality that is only in our heads, but which is leading this world to destruction by Armageddon. Remember that "luna" means "moon", and "lunatic" doesn't refer to the moon for nothing.

This will probably be way too much of a stretch for most people, who have never questioned our reality, but questioning reality is the whole purpose of this life. To be able to get to this understanding, you have to first look at the Freemasonry symbolism on the one dollar bill (the pyramid-and-eye that appears all over our Western culture).

If you look at the one dollar bill, the whole pyramid-and-eye stands within the "circle of life". The top of the pyramid and the eye within it symbolizes the sun. It sits within a triangle that's "cut off" from the rest of the pyramid. The whole pyramid itself too stands for the rays of the sun, but it evidently has been cut off. The eye means that the sun is all-seeing; it is the "eye of providence" (the eye of "God"). This is because the light of the sun stands for information. Our whole human experience is us being in-formation; the forms and shapes that this world consists of, including ourselves.

When the sun would shine without any distortion, there would be nothing but pure light, pure love. But as you can see, the light has been cut off by the triangle. The top triangle itself stands for a number of things: the pyramid structure of our civilization, which is a command structure that symbolizes the mind and its desire to control life. It has hijacked life for the time being, by indoctrinating our minds with the use of television and viral, peer-to-peer illusion-strengthening into believing in a world that most of us probably never even have seen with our own eyes, except on all our electronic devices.

It also symbolizes a kaleidoscope/prism mechanism. When you set up a kaleidoscope, the prism will be a triangle of mirrors that reflects light into all kinds of different, unique patterns when you rotate the device. Symbolized, our own human experience could be seen as someone looking through a kaleidoscope, with the sun being the light source, and the planets and stars being the "beads" that create all the different patterns while everything is rotating, and of which we would be projections.

In "reality", the prism symbolizes a satellite.

NASA had two satellites "crash" on a place on the Moon that was not going to be visible to anyone (like amateur astronomers). Neil Armstrong supposedly already had mentioned that he saw two objects "watching him" when he was on the Moon. And NASA's project is called "Grail".

The word "Grail", as in "Holy Grail" or "Holy Chalice", is from the Bible.

When the Chalice is empty, it signifies Life Eternal: an unbroken information signal, stemming from the Sun. When the Chalice is filled, it signifies Human Life: the broken, distorted signal.

This leads up to the probable conclusion that the prism-like satellites were being replaced by new ones, and that they are responsible for distorting our human experience.

THE LUNATIC IS IN MY HEAD YOU RAISE THE BLADE, YOU MAKE THE CHANGE YOU REARRANGE ME ' TILL I'M SANE YOU LOCK THE DOOR AND THROW AWAY THE KEY THERE'S SOMEONE IN MY HEAD BUT IT'S NOT ME

The lunatic is in all our heads (but it is not us, not who we really are), because it's our mind that is making us do crazy things. It is signified by all the sinning in this world. Instead of using thoughts only for useful things, we have come to a point that is is running the show altogether.

So, the insane declare the sane (like Syd Barrett) insane, and then go on to "lobotomize" the "patient". In this song, this is a symbolic lobotomy. It's about social conditioning and peer-pressure. With it, we are all taught to believe what some forces want us to believe, and not to listen to our heart and common sense. It drives us further away from the truth and into the arms of those who are lying and deceiving the world. Instead of being guided by our conscious being, we are guided by the mind.

"The door is locked" and "the key is thrown away" because WE are they door that needs to be opened. And WE are also the key for opening the door. This entire physical life is one whole entity. There is no time, there is no space. But instead of looking within ourselves for the key to understanding this life and the truth, we look everywhere BUT inside ourselves. We look in this world for all kinds of solutions to become happy, and more peaceful. But these solutions only work for a short while, so you'll always need to come back for it again and again. It's like a drug, and the drug dealers are those who control the information and who stimulate us to look outside ourselves for the cure to a problem that they have created in the first place.

AND IF THE CLOUD BURSTS, THUNDER IN YOUR EAR YOU SHOUT AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HEAR AND IF THE BAND YOU'RE IN STARTS PLAYING DIFFERENT TUNES I'LL SEE YOU ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

This is about Barrett's revelation. A revelation in which "God" parts the clouds with "His" voice thundering in Syd's ear. I don't know what kind of revelation Syd had specifically, but my own revelation (a month ago) was a symbolical one, in which I suddenly started connecting all symbolical references within our informational existence, leading up to the knowledge of a coming apocalypse, directed by the United States.

All these symbolical connections made it very clear to me that we are not what we are taught to believe. That we are pure consciousness. Spiritual beings, who are playing in an illusory world that is more a game or a riddle than anything else. We aren't supposed to make this reality our home, but free ourselves from it, because it's a prison. But because we have given "crayons" to color the walls of our prison with pretty patterns, we kind of have fallen love with our prison cell. :)

The "band started playing different tunes" because despite Syd's prophecy, nobody would care to listen to him. Everybody just went on with their daily races, going nowhere. Much like how we still live these days, but even more entranced by it. Trying to "make it", when there is really nothing to make. Everything will be gone in a relatively short while. It will be now, because time is an illusion.

Now... the question is, of course, if everything will be gone soon anyway, what's the point of all this, and why bother going on at all?

We need to go on, because we are supposed to wake up from the dream, and then start acting accordingly. When you have awoken from the dream, this life suddenly becomes a breeze. There is no fear anymore. No more struggle. No more strife or ambition. Nothing to attain. There's only letting go. And we are meant to learn to let go, without dying. Otherwise, we will be living the karmic life until the game is ended by the creator instead of ourselves.

Next to "the dark side of the moon's" reference to the satellite/prism symbolism, it is also a reference to our true nature. Our true nature is darkness. Pink Floyd's song "Eclipse" ends with the following lines:

AND EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN IS IN TUNE BUT THE SUN IS ECLIPSED BY THE MOON THERE IS NO DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REALLY MATTER OF FACT IT'S ALL DARK

Our true nature is what "it's all dark" refers to. Our solar system is a "device" that has been put there by our creator. Much like an orrery, but less "mechanic" and more "organic". ;) I already explained how much our solar system seems to work like a kaleidoscope. Well, this device has been put there to have us look inside ourselves and trust ourselves, instead of constantly looking outside of ourselves for meaning, believing everything all "authority figures" want you to believe.

All other songs on Dark Side of the Moon refer to the same themes of life, and all point towards the same conclusion.

Breathe: "All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be." It's an illusion. A trick of light. Nothing to believe in, really. "Run rabbit run, dig that hole, forget the sun." Being completely occupied with the games of this world, and forgetting what you really are, and where you're supposed to come back to. "The tide" is mentioned here. Tides are caused by the moon. But our insane minds are too ("balanced on the biggest wave, race towards an early grave").

Time: All about wasting your life away in our illusory world that's dominated by the illusion of time. It's all about waking up from this illusion and starting to LIVE for once, instead of only existing.

Money: Well, what can I say? The value of money is only in our minds, but it is at the verge of destroying us all. It's all about greed, and never having enough. People make all sorts of foolish decisions based on money.

Us and Them: This is about our division, and the wars that have been waged because of our illusory separation. We have never really been separated in life, we still are one, but because we believe to be separated, we create all sorts of conflicts with each other. It really is the most foolish and destructive of all games. There is only "us". There is no "them".

Even if some parts of this interpretation may be not exactly right, all songs (not only Pink Floyd's music) still point to a symbolism that is the language of our physical reality. Like science is the literal language of our physical world, there is also this very symbolic sign language. And we should learn to understand this language, because it holds the key to truth and freedom.