Pink Floyd e a Segunda Guerra Mundial

É inegável o impacto que a Segunda Guerra Mundial deixou na Europa (fato que dispensa explicações). Entretanto, não só os clássicos do cinema e teatro transmitiram os seus horrores às futuras gerações, para que algo assim jamais se repetisse. O Rock também!

Um desses exemplos é o grupo Pink Floyd. Na música When the Tigers broke free (do filme The Wall) o grupo mostra como a sua geração (hoje sessentões) conheceu e lidou com a questão das crianças que tiveram entes queridos mortos na guerra.

Nesta cena do filme (abaixo) é retratado o dia que uma delas (o protagonista) descobre como seu pai morreu na guerra. Muito bom!

Letra:

When the tigers broke free

It was just before dawn
One miserable morning in black 'forty four.

When the forward commander
Was told to sit tight
When he asked that his men be withdrawn.

And the Generals gave thanks
As the other ranks held back
The enemy tanks for a while. 

And that's how the Anzio bridgehead
Was held for the price
Of a few hundred ordinary lives.

And kind old King George
Sent Mother a note
When he heard that father was gone.

It was, I recall,
In the form of a scroll,
With gold leaf and all.

And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.

And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed
With his own rubber stamp.

It was dark all around.
There was frost in the ground
When the tigers broke free.

And no one survived
From the Royal Fusiliers Company C.

They were all left behind,
Most of them dead,
The rest of them dying.

And that's how the High Command
Took my daddy from me.

Letra: Sing365