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"Take It Back" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division
Bell.
While most apparently a love song, it can also be interpreted to
be about Mother
Nature, and how man abuses the Earth. This latter interpretation gains some
credibility from the video, which seems to have been made with the
issue very much in mind. Additionally, the album was named The Division
Bell by Douglas
Adams in exchange for the band contributing a sizeable donation
to Save The Rhino
International.
The opening riff bears some similarities to Marillion's "The Release" (a b-side from the
"Seasons End" sessions). The band's lead singer Steve Hogarth hints
on the band's official website, "I always thought this song bears
an uncanny resemblance to a certain Pink Floyd single... See you in
court!..."[1]
Around the middle of the song, starting at around 03:04, between
the main lyrics, can be heard children chanting lines from a
nursery rhyme "Ring-O'-Roses": "...A pocket full of posies, ashes,
ashes, we all fall down". (A strong allusion to the same nursery
rhyme can be heard in Marillion's song "Forgotten Sons", from the
first album, "Script for a Jester's Tear"
(1983): "Ring-a-ring-o-roses, they all fall down...".)
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