Roger Waters has recorded a new version of the Pink Floyd classic Comfortably Numb with the Palestinian singer Mona Miari and has been talking about it to Wired magazine.
Waters has been a prominent supporter of the Palestinian cause for decades now, and the new version is deliberately being released in the context of the alleged genocide in Gaza and the continued occupation of both that territory and the West Bank. It includes new verses written in English and Arabic and, significantly, Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined (as it’s styled) includes the line ‘I will never become comfortably numb’. Meaning numb to the ongoing conflict, presumably.
