the ballad of bill hubbard

• amused to death albumunun acilis parcasi. enstrumantaldir.
  
  // crickets fade in //
  // dogs barking //
  // switch tv channel //
  man: ---believable bargain.
  woman: it certainly is!
  man: why did you grab it, dear?
  woman: well, i bought a thread of pearls from you last year for one daughter. so, i figured, well, i'll get to the other daughter this spring.
  man: yeah, it's about once a year you'll see the six-millimeter size.
  woman: oh, they're beautiful!
  man: i'd say extremely high luster, perfect roundness, and the six-millimeter size all add up to one thing: a phenomenal giveaway---
  // switch tv channel //
  man: oh (? tape something for the album he's watching ?) so call---
  // switch tv channel //
  woman:---animals.
  (?)
  (? i love you harry! ?)
  // switch tv channel //
  man:
  (?) (? and the box ?) (? hundred seventy-nine ?)
  (?) ninety-seven cents (?) and it certainly is a top one.
  (?) so it's much desired and a marvelous way to, uh, wear your
  jewelry. have fun.
  // switch tv channel //
  woman: ---really gonna miss you and the (?) and your voice(?)) will be in my thoughts and in my heart. happy new year,
  bubba (?) tracy // sniff! //
  what do you think of canterbury station. (? take harold home ?)
  man: cheer up!
  // dog barking //
  // growling //
  man: (?) short (?)
  // switch tv channel //
  man: (?) practical beast
  // snarling //
  // switch tv channel //
  
  alf razzell (royal fusiliers):
  
  two things that have haunted me most are the days of (?) when i had to collect the paybooks, and when i left bill hubbard in no-man's-land.
  
  i was picked up and taken into their trench. and i'd no sooner taken two three steps down the trench when i heard, "ho hello razz, i'm glad to see you! this is my second night here," he said "i'm feeling bad." and it was bill hubbard, one of the men we'd trained in england, one of the original battalion. i had to look at his wound, rolled him over. i could see that it was probably a fatal wound. you could imagine what pain he was in, he was drippin' with sweat. and after i'd gone about three shell-holes, traversed that, had it been... had there been a path or a road, i could have done better.
  
  he pummelled me, "put me down, put me down, i'd rather die, i'd rather die, put me down."
  
  i was hoping he would faint. he said, "i can't go any further, let me die." i said, "if i leave you here, bill, you won't be found. let's have another go." he said, "all right then."
  
  the same thing happened. he wouldn't... he couldn't stand it any more, and i had to leave him there. in no-man's-land.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7e_f-hzouo
• roger waters'ın yazdığı, jeff beck'in de gitarda harikalar yarattığı amused to death albümünün giriş parçası.