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"Home" is one of my favorite Roger Waters songs. I think it's also one of his favorites. From the "Radio K.A.O.S" record... I even love the drum machine.

The choruses always give me chills:

When they overrun the defences
A minor invasion put down to expenses
Will you go down to the airport lounge?
Will you accept your second class status?
A nation of waitresses and waiters
Will you mix their martinis?
Will you stand still for it?
Or will you take to the hills?

When the cowboys and Arabs draw down
On each other at noon
In the cool dusty air of the city boardroom
Will you stand by a passive spectator
Of the market dictators?
Will you discreetly withdraw
With your ear pressed to the boardroom door?
Will you hear when the lion within you roars?
Will you take to the hills?"

Roger will be touring the US in the fall. Tickets for his shows at Madison Square Garden go on sale this Monday. Man, I could have seen both Gilmour and Waters in the same year... ah well, maybe just Rog.

He'll be joined by:

Andy Fairweather Low – Guitar
Snowy White – Guitar
Dave Kilminster – Guitar and Vocals
Graham Broad - Drums
Jon Carin – Keyboards
Harry Waters – Hammond
Ian Ritchie - Saxophone
Katie Kissoon, PP Arnold and Carol Kenyon – Background Vocals

Not too shabby. Andy and Snowy definitely know the tunes, as does Jon Carin (who's been playing with both Pink Floyd and Roger for some twenty years... yes, twenty years). Harry Waters is Roger's son, who appeared as one of the children in Radio K.A.O.S. back in '87. Good stuff.

More Roger, from "Four Minutes", another chill inducing track from K.A.O.S.:

After a near miss on a plane
You swear you'll never fly again
After the first kiss when you make up
You swear you'll never break up again...
And when you've just run a red light
Sit shaking under the street light
You swear to yourself you'll never drink and drive again
Sometimes I feel like going home
(You swear you'll never let things go by again)
Sometimes I miss the rain and snow
(And you'll never toe the party line again)
And when the east wind blows
Sometimes I feel like going home...