Roger Waters shared a new recording of “The Gunner’s Dream” along with a black and white video of him in the studio. The track was originally released on Pink Floyd The Final Cut (1983) , the band’s last album with Waters.
Lyrically, "The Gunner's Dream" imagines a post-war life in which the world is free from tyranny, terrorism, and cruelty. The new version arrives a few weeks after the invasion of the Capitol in the US and two days before Joe Biden takes office as president of the country – which will happen this Wednesday, the 20th.
According to a statement by Waters, he chose to revisit the song after watching the 2013 The Man Who Saved The World Stanislav Petrov , a former Soviet colonel who helped prevent a nuclear war in 1983 when he received a false alarm that the US was sending missiles to the country. He convinced his superiors that it was a false alarm before they proceeded with the counter-attack plan.
Watch the video for “The Gunner's Dream” below, in which Water is joined by his bandmates Lucius , guitarist Dave Kilminster , drummer Joey Waronker , and bassist Jonathan Wilson .
