Song Name: The Fletcher Memorial Home Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Final Cut, Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd Run Time: 4:11 Year: 1983 Track Number: 8 Sung By: Roger Waters Written By: Roger Waters Info: * The song deals with Roger Waters' personal views on the Falklands War, mentioning many world leaders by name, including Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, suggesting that these "colonial wasters of life and limb" be segregated into a specially-founded retirement home. It labels all the world leaders as "overgrown infants" and "incurable tyrants", and suggests that they are incapable of understanding anything other than violence, or their own visages on a television screen. * Its concluding lyrics have the narrator collect all of the "tyrants" into the Home, and apply "the Final
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