One of My Turns Lyrics
“Oh my God! What a fabulous room! Are all these your guitars?”
(“I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean to startle you”)
“God! This place is bigger than our apartment!”
(“Let me know when you're entering a room”)
(“Yes, sir”)
“Um, can I get a drink of water?”
(“I was wondering about”)
“You want some, huh?”
(“Yes”)
“Oh, wow! Hey, look at this tub! Wanna take a bath?”
(“I'll have to find out from Mrs. Bancroft what time she wants to meet us, for her main”)
“What are you watching?”
(“If you'll just let me know as soon as you can, Mrs. Bancroft… Mrs. Bancroft”)
“Hello?”
(“I don't understand”)
“Are you feeling okay?”
[Verse 1: Roger Waters]
Day after day, the love turns gray
Like the skin of a dying man
And night after night, we pretend it's all right
But I have grown older, and you have grown colder
And nothing is very much fun any more
And I can feel one of my turns coming on
I feel cold as a razor blade, tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left
You'll find my favourite axe
Don't look so frightened, this is just a passing phase
One of my bad days
Would you like to watch TV? Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat? Would you like to learn to fly?
Would ya? Would you like to see me try?
Ah, no!
[Outro: Roger Waters]
Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it's time I stopped?
Why are you running away?
About
After calling home and discovering that his wife is having an affair, Pink invites a groupie back to his hotel room before emotionally erupting, destroying the room and chasing the groupie away.
The song was inspired by the band’s friend, Roy Harper (the man who sung on Have A Cigar), who trashed his caravan at the 1975 Knebworth festival.
Q&A
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Yes, so then the idea is that we’ve leapt somehow a lot of years, from “Goodbye Blue Sky” through “What Shall We Do Now” which doesn’t exist on the record anymore, and “Empty Spaces” into “Young Lust” that’s like a show; we’ve leapt into a rock and roll show, somewhere on into our hero’s career. And “One of My Turns” is supposed to be his response to a lot of aggro [aggression] in his life and not having ever got anything together, although he’s married, well, no he has got things together, but he’s been married, and he’s just had a… he’s just splitting up with his wife, and in response he takes another girl up to his hotel room.
- 2.The Thin Ice
- 6.Mother
- 8.Empty Spaces
- 9.Young Lust
- 10.One of My Turns
- 14.Hey You
- 16.Nobody Home
- 17.Vera
- 19.Comfortably Numb
- 22.Run Like Hell
- 24.Stop
- 25.The Trial
- 26.Outside the Wall
