"When The Tigers Broke Free"
It was just before dawn
One miserable morning in black 'forty four.
When the forward commander
When he asked that his men be withdrawn.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.
Of a few hundred ordinary lives.
When he heard that father was gone.
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
With his own rubber stamp.
There was frost in the ground
When the tigers broke free.
From the Royal Fusiliers Company Z.
They were all left behind,
And that's how the High Command
Took my daddy from me.
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continuing with a song as an introduction the concepts of the album.
self-imposed isolation, self-destruction, catharsis.
The protagonist Pink Floyd, from his boyhood days in post-World-War-II England.
Also
"When the Tigers Broke Free" is a Pink Floyd song by Roger Waters, describing the death of his father, Eric Fletcher Waters, during the Second World War's Operation Shingle.
