The Thin Ice

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"The Thin Ice"
Song by Pink Floyd
from the album The Wall
PublishedPink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
Released30 November 1979 (UK)
8 December 1979 (US)
RecordedApril – November 1979
Genre
Length2:27
LabelHarvest (UK)
Columbia (US)
Songwriter(s)Roger Waters
Producer(s)

"The Thin Ice" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd.[1] it is the second track on their 1979 album The Wall.[2]

Composition

The song, which is two minutes and 30 seconds in length, begins with the sound of an infant crying. The main body of the song is a

augmented fourth of the key. Then Roger Waters takes over the lead vocal. The piano becomes staccato
, as the lyric takes on a warning tone, with Waters singing "If you should go skating/On the thin ice of modern life...."

As the lyrics end, the diatonic sense of C Major is abandoned, as the melody heard earlier (E, D, F, E, and A) becomes stripped to a simple power chord riff, played loud by distorted guitars, with brief soloing. The song ends on a sustained C Major chord, but through crossfading with the next song on the album, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1", a D minor chord is interpolated, contributing to uneasiness intimated by the lyrics.[3][4]

Plot

The Wall is the story of Pink, who grows up to become an alienated and embittered rock star, with a failing marriage and feelings of

In The Flesh?" is chronologically placed later in the album's narrative, and then the story is begun via flashback
. "The Thin Ice" introduces Pink as a baby and young child, and while the lyrics assure the listener that "Mama loves her baby, and Daddy loves you, too", it warns that "[T]he sea may look warm... the sky may look blue", but "Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice/Appears under your feet".

Film version

The film shows hundreds of soldiers in the war, either wounded or dead, then cuts to Pink floating in his hotel pool. As shown later in the film (in the segment for "One of My Turns"), Pink has cut his hand, and the amount of blood in the water is exaggerated, until he appears to be floating in a pool of blood.

The film version has an extended piano intro that plays before Gilmour's vocal.

Personnel

Personnel per Fitch and Mahon.[6]

References

  • Fitch, Vernon. The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd edition), 2005.
    ISBN 1-894959-24-8
    .

Notes

  1. ISBN 0-7119-4301-X
    .
  2. ISBN 1-84195-551-5
    .
  3. ISBN 0-8256-1076-1
    ])
  4. ISBN 1-896522-17-3
    ]
  5. ISBN 978-0-283-06127-1
  6. ^ Fitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, Comfortably Numb — A History of The Wall 1978–1981, 2006, p.72

External links

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