Im laughing with all those explanations. The song was originally titled Keep Smiling People when it was written. One theory is that in the early 's there was a small serial killing spree in the area of London near the river Thames.
After three or four murders, a suspect was caught. That suspect's name was Eugene Craft. He was tried and found guilty.
Hence, "Careful" might be a reference to that incident. But Floyd to my knowledge has never admitted where it came from. This might be about Hesus the ancient Druid god who was often depicted with an Axe.
Human sacrifices were not uncommon and were often done with axes, somewhere in the woods at night. Hence the screaming sounds and references to stars. Nowadays, we globally witness that project implementation. Some humanoids that play gods certainly hold horrible weapons not just a symbolic axe.
Nothing to do with conspiracy theory. I rather suggest we turn around, collect data as well as available info and analyse. And Eugen does not seem to be careful at all, just persistent I say the guitar dropping roadie sounds right. Famous roadies. I have a nephew who had a childhood friend named Eugene. The kid was supposed to come over to play video games or something and when I heard what his name was, I said to my nephew, "Careful with that axe, Eugene.
I always found this title amusing, too. I would see it listed on the back of a Pink Floyd album and I would chuckle to myself. I just played it on youtube and this might have been the first time I have ever taken the time to actually give it a listen. The title is the best thing it has going for it, because there is nothing particularly great about this track. The great thing about such a song as Careful with that Axe, Eugene is a sort of polyphonic symbolism that it contains within its structure of drumbeats, whispers, screams and scat vocals.
On the surface level it narrates the story of an incident in the forest where a woodcutter may have murdered his friend in a frenzy. Metaphorically it reminds one of several cultural tropes such as the killing of Abel by Cain symbolic of murder of nature; a primal scream of creation and destruction, of angst and Oedipal horror upon seeing the real; mankind horrified by murder of nature by human beings bursting out in an expressionist frenzy like in Munch's painting Scream. One can also perhaps relate the song to a Rashomon phenomenon after Kurosawa's classic film where the nature of truth is obfuscated and any attempt to know what happened in the forest or who's the actual culprit remains opaque.
On another level its Waters reminding human beings to be careful with the machinery and not to mess with nature, to refrain from wars and destruction. Tribute to Jerry Garcia. Got his finger chopped off by his brother??? The song to me represents an lsd trip: the beginning being a nervous come up shown with the eerie keyboard and random note picking , the main section the peak of the trip ecstatic guitar soloing with screams and drums representing the ecstasy and confusion of the peak and finally the come down at the end of the song shown with sedateful whispers by waters and calming vocals by Gilmour over his guitar notes.
My middle name is Eugene, as was my father's and his father's and as far back as I have traced. As a child, my father would admonish me with "Careful with that ax Eugene" when I was about to do something I could hurt myself or someone at.
This predated the song and it is safe to say my father never heard the song or of the song in his life. It was with astonishment that I first learned of the title. When I asked my father about the often used phrase, he said it was just something his father used to say to him. My father's clan Machpie originates in the Hebrides and I often wondered if the phrase may have as well. Though I have no real idea. This song is all about losing your religion. The axe is the symbol for the struggle a person meets when doing so.
And at the top of this struggle please note the climax in the music the primal scream arises. Not so lost for words in the end, herein lies the most complete examination, review, and discussion of all lyrics and meanings behind every Pink Floyd song. As the main Uncle Custard column unclecustard. Jump to the Alphabetical Song Index top right column below to begin your exploration.
Post a Comment. Subscribe to Pink Floyd Lyrics. This was the fourth version of the song, but the first one to be officially released. Careful with that Axe, Eugene is an acknowledged Pink Floyd classic. It was performed live from , and brought back one more time in The piece is incredibly effective in creating a dense mood of paranoia and anxiety, a subtle hypnosis of feeling; Roger's quiet whispering and screams provide just the right touch.
The piece is one of those like Pow R. Toc H. This version ends with strange eating noises, which given the title of the song though 'axe' does have a double meaning, also referring to a guitar , conjure up rather disgusting images. The 'one-chord wonder' continued to develop over the course of its performance; note the difference between this single version and the live cut on Ummagumma less than a year later.
Compared to what came later, this version, in the words of Nick Mason, is "extremely mild, jig-along stuff.
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