Pounding The Keyboard

       “Wait For Her,” a ballad from Roger Waters’ new album, Is This The Life We Really Want, was inspired from the following poem by Palestinian poet and writer Mahmoud Darwish.  Mr. Waters set melody to it, tweaked some words and the result, a hauntingly smart love song. Lesson From The Kama Sutra (Wait For Her) By Mahmoud Darwish (Translation by Dr. Fayeq Oweis) With a glass inlaid with gemstones, wait for her   on a pool around the evening and among the perfumed roses, wait for her… with the patience of a horse destined for the slopes of the mountains, wait for her… with a distinctive aesthetic taste of a prince, wait for her… with seven pillows stuffed with light clouds, wait for her… with the fire of women incense filling the place, wait for her… with the scent of a male sandals on horseback, wait for her… and do not rush it, if she arrives late then wait for her… and if she arrives early, wait for her… do

"Aww, for f--k's sake, stop lettin' off fireworks and shouting and screaming, I'm trying to sing the song! I mean I don't care...  if you don't want to hear it, you know. F--k you.                                                ---Roger Waters, telling some noisy fans to f--k off during a concert                         Since I'm still quite obsessing with Roger Waters’ new album ( Is This The Life We Really Want?) , I can’t help but remember this quite nasty but defining story about him. When Pink Floyd hit it big ( and I mean big) with Dark Side of the Moon ( this album stayed in the charts for 17 years and is one of the best-selling albums of all-time and IMO, the greatest album of all time with The Wall a close second), the band started performing in bigger venues (read: stadiums).        And it caused Roger some anxiety because he preferred smaller, more intimate venues where their audience clearly appreciated and treasured