Candy and A Currant Bun
First recorded at the White Head session, it was the B side to the "Arnold Layne" single. This track was originally called "Lets Roll Another One." Record producers at EMI insisted on the change of this track and it lyrics cleary referring to soft drugs. The only lyrics from the original directly related to soft drugs is "...tastes good!" Which in all likely hood could mean anything.
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Only available on record as the B side of "Point me at the Sky" single until its release on the Ummagumma studio album release. Always a concert favorite, Roger's screams chilled the heart of the theater and left noone unhamoered. Its title was never etched in stone until around 1969 when it was recorded for the Ummagumma album and the 69' BBC sessions. Prior to this it appeared in the 68' BBC sessions under the title "Murderistic Women," and "Keep Smiling People." During "The Journey" tour it was presented as "Beset by Creatures of the Deep." An alternative studio out take of "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" was used in the film "Zabriske's Point." On the sound track it is the final song and it is the final scene in the movie. It is titled "Come in Number 51 Your Time is Up."
Carrera Slow Blues
A song during the movie of the race La Carrera Panamericana. Not a very popular track.
Chapter 24
Lyrics and title of this song is taken from "Ching" a 5000 year old book of prophecies, a kind of horascope. This song is a light drums and a key board. Not one of my favorite combonations.
Childhood's End
the last song Writen by the band without Waters assistance. Gilmours vocals are accompanied with Wright's Organ and Mason's Drums. Mason's style in the last 2 minutes resurfaced in "Time."
Cirrus Minor
Named after a type of cloud this song is simply a prerecorded bird song titled "Dawn Chorus," over dubbed by Wrights Hammond and Farfisa organ and a few gentle lines from David Gilmour. This song was later recorded on the "Laying Down Tracks"(3 disc documentary) of BBC performances.
Cluster One
A song which was used fequently to delay the bands appearance, contains a bluesy guitar solo hazed with Piano and drums that echo in and out of the back ground in the later half on this track. Opens "Division Bell."
Come in #51 Your Time is Up
This song originated from an alternative studio recording for "Careful with that Axe, Eugene." Later it became part of the sound track for the movie "Zabriske's Point." Waters leads into a motivated state of mind and hammers down some chill screams which lye at the end of a drum introduction. Very cool explosion scene in the movie and credits play during this piece.
Comfortably Numb
This song shares guitar riffs with the title track from "the Final Cut." Also it is the most popular played concert song of the Floyd's. Originally it was to be on Final Cut but band disagreements forced it to be played as scene on The Wall. In this scene drugs, people and troubles have overwhelmed Pink as he colapses into a heroin overdose of mass proportions. He is carried out to his limo and taken to the show where he preforms.
Coming Back To Life
The only song on Division Bell where Gilmours writes all the lyrics unaided. It starts and seems to picks up but never really goes anywhere. One would guess Gilmour is a shamed of his lyrics because he starts the song usually with a Bluesy Guitar passage and continues with a hoarse whisper of the verses.
Corporal Clegg
Yet another song by Waters about War or its after effects. This song features a kazoo solo at the end which id scoffed by most but enjoyed by myself. The song its self is about a now retarted ex-soldier whom lives with his mom. The old soldier seems to live in a world of illusion while his mother drinks her self away. The character Corporal Clegg probably was inspired from the Hammer Horror film, "Night Creatures, One Captain Clegg." The band never commented on these theories.
Country Theme
Why didnt they just make La Carrera Panamericana one big song? Some more back ground racing music from this racing movir.
Crumbling Land
Showcased in the movie "Zabriske's Point," Crumbling Land features both Gilmour and Wrights vocals. The version on the movie is shorted then the one released on recorded but boot legged copies are the longest of them all. This song relates to the plot of the film.
Crying Song
A jazzy collection of bass lines eases the mode of "More" (album) after "The Nile Song" gets your blood pumping. This song i birth place to a concept which Waters refers to in his future works with 'Aniamal' and 'The Wall.' The lyrics "...Help me roll away the Stone," is the beginning of his concept "being dragged down by the stone, stone, stone, stone...
Cymbaline
A song which can wrap up how the boys were feeling in the heat of the industry. The band was just getting started and had put out varied other sound tracks and albums but never with such a rush. The entire sound track was writen and recorded in 8 days. Wow!!! The song became a BBC session favorite. Quite fequently insanely lengthend versions of Cymbaline were played in tour curcuits until it was dropped from the play list in the later half of 1971. The song's title may have been taken from the Shakespeare's play 'Cymbeline' but there is no connection between the two.
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