Alon Mizrahi on X

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Can you imagine how much bleaker, hopeless, and shitty this world would be if Roger Waters were on the side of the massacres, starvation and mass-scale brutality and sadism?

‘Thanks for small mercies’, the cliche goes, and it is so true in the case of the political stances one of the greatest, most glorious, and admired musicians in history took in real time, in defiance of the cultural and political establishment of his era Personally, I’d be heartbroken if the musical hero of my youth went from singing ‘Mother do you think they’ll drop the bomb?’ to supporting genocide; it would have been too terrible. I hate to even think about it.

Waters remained true to his lyrics, his vision, and his integrity. His pain as a fatherless child who lost his political and brave father in WW2, and who made generations of listeners cry and feel the wound of his fatherlessness. I remember listening to The Final Cut as a teenager and being mesmerized by ‘The Gunner’s Dream’, which starts

‘Floating down, through the clouds

Memories come rushing up to meet me now

But in the space between the heavens

And the corner of some foreign field

I had a dream I had a dream’

We all had a dream. We all do. Roget Waters remained true and faithful to his. and for this, for this absolute show of character and grace, he has my eternal love and admiration