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Roger Waters wrote the lyrics based on an experience of being injected with tranquilizers before a 1977 concert in Philadelphia. He later described that show as the longest two hours of his life, as he could hardly lift his arm while performing.
The song follows a character whose emotional journey into the past is interrupted when his management breaks into his hotel room and has a doctor inject him with a drug to pull him out of his drug-induced malaise so he can perform that evening.