This is a video of Pink Floyd performing Comfortably Numb Live off the Film Delicate Sound Of Thunder which is a Pink Floyd concert video taken from the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. See…how I always saw this song was as a sick or dying man that was in severe pain. The speaker at the beginning is a doctor or medic of some sort. Hense the “I need some information, first/Just the basic facts/Can you show me where it hurts.” The next stanza is, of course, the man in pain speaking. He is reliving a childhood experiance, perhaps the first time he was hurt or sick. At this point he is becoming so engroused in his feelings and the pain that it all just stops hurting. The only thing he can concentrait on is the childhood experiance that he has forgotten but is trying to grasp now. The first time he says comfortably numb means he has lost all sense of reality and is just in his mind, completely lost from the world and engrossed so much into this memory from his past. Now, the next time the doctor speaks to him, he is giving him a shot, or fixing him in some way. In the line “That’ll keep you going through the show” I believe that the “show” is either life, or going with the theme of The Wall album and movie, war. The last stanza is of course, him recovering. But in a very different way. He still cannot hear the doctor at first, and is still in his memory. Slowly, though, the memory begins to fade and slip away from him. The second time he is “comfortably numb” is either ……

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