Artist: Roger Waters
Suggested Track: The Bravery of Being Out of Range

Lyrics
You have a natural tendency
To squeeze off a shot
You're good fun at parties
You wear the right masks

You're old but you still
Like a laugh in the locker room
You can't abide change
You're at home on the range

You opened your suitcase
Behind the old workings
To show off the magnum
You deafened the canyon

A comfort a friend
Only upstaged in the end
By the Uzi machine gun
Does the recoil remind you

Remind you of sex
Old man what the hell you gonna kill next
Old timer who you gonna kill next
I looked over Jordan and what did I see

Saw a U.S. Marine in a pile of debris
I swam in your pools
And lay under your palm trees
I looked in the eyes of the Indian

Who lay on the Federal Building steps
And through the range finder over the hill
I saw the front line boys popping their pills
Sick of the mess they find

On their desert stage
And the bravery of being out of range
Yeah the question is vexed
Old man what the hell you gonna kill next

Old timer who you gonna kill next
Hey bartender over here
Two more shots
And two more beers

Sir turn up the TV sound
The war has started on the ground
Just love those laser guided bombs
They're really great

For righting wrongs
You hit the target
And win the game
From bars 3,000 miles away

3,000 miles away
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range
We zap and maim

With the bravery of being out of range
We strafe the train
With the bravery of being out of range
We gain terrain

With the bravery of being out of range
With the bravery of being out of range
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range

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	Roger Waters – Breathe
	[Intro] / You are the angel of death / And I am the dead man’s son / He was buried like a mole in a fox hole / And everyone's still on the run / [Verse 1] / Breathe, breathe in the
	Roger Waters – Money
	[Verse 1] / Money, get away / You get a good job with more pay, and you're okay / Money, it's a gas / Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash / [Refrain] / New car, caviar
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	So ya, thought ya / Might like to go to the show / To feel that warm thrill of confusion / That space cadet glow / I've got some bad news for you sunshine / Pink isn't well, he
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	Roger Waters – Broken Bones
	[Verse 1] / Sometimes I stare at the night sky / See them stars a billion light years away / And it makes me feel small like a bug on a wall / Who gives a shit anyway? / Who gives
	Roger Waters – Eclipse
	[Verse] / All that you touch and all that you see / All that you taste, and all you feel / All that you love and all that you hate / All you distrust, and all you save / All that
	Roger Waters (Ft. Clare Torry) – Four Minutes
	Frustrated with the world, Billy decides to hack into the world’s military using his superhuman powers, and launch various nuclear attacks around the world in an effort to bring
	Roger Waters – Comfortably Numb 2022
	[Intro] / –found at zero five [?] / Hey, here's an important reminder: / If you were below Canal Street on 911, New Orleans– / [Verse 1] / Hello / Is there anybody in there? / Just
	Roger Waters – Time
	[Part I: Time] / [Intro] / The voice had been there all along / Hidden in the stones in the rivers / Hidden in the books / Hidden in plain sight / It was the voice of reason / [
	Roger Waters – Speak to Me
	[Spoken] / The memories of a man in his old age / Are the deeds of a man in his prime / You shuffle in the gloom of the sick room / And talk to yourself as you die / Life is a
	Roger Waters – Radio Waves
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	Roger Waters (Ft. Paul Carrack) – The Powers That Be
	During the broadcast, Jim takes a break, as he plays a song for the listeners. He chooses “The Powers That Be”, a song that looks down upon the “market forces”.
	Roger Waters – Us and Them
	[Verse 1] / Us and them / And after all / We're only ordinary men / [Verse 2] / Me and you / God only knows / It's not what we would choose to do / [Chorus] / "Forward!" he cried
	Roger Waters – 4:41 A.M. (Sexual Revolution)
	[Verse 1] / Hey girl / Take out the dagger / And let's have a stab at the sexual revolution / Hey girl / Let freedom for all be our rallying call / Tomorrow let's make our new
	Roger Waters – On the Run
	Today, I awoke from a dream / It was a revelation / Almost Patmosian, whatever that means / But that's evidently another story / It began with some standard bullshit fight with
	Roger Waters – It’s a Miracle
	[Verse 1] / Miraculous you call it, babe, you ain't seen nothing yet / They got Pepsi in the Andes, they got McDonald's in Tibet / Yosemite has been turned into a golf course for
	Roger Waters – Great Gig In the Sky
	Dear Mr. Waters / Don asked me to let you know that he is in hospital now / And has been diagnosed with a cancer in his sinus / He also asked me to tell everyone that he is not
	Roger Waters – The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)
	After the events of “Four Minutes”, the previous track on Radio K.A.O.S., it turns out there wasn’t a nuclear attack at all, and that the whole thing was a hoax, orchestrated by
	Roger Waters – 5:06 A.M. (Every Strangers' Eyes)
	The penultimate song on Roger Waters' first solo album ‘The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking’
	Roger Waters – Perfect Sense, Part II
	[Chorus: Roger Waters] / Can't you see? It all makes perfect sense / Expressed in dollars and cents / Pounds, shillings and pence / Can't you see? It all makes perfect sense / [
	Roger Waters – 4:33 A.M. (Running Shoes)
	[Intro] / Brief sounds of sex / [Verse 1] / So I stood by the roadside / The soles of my running shoes gripping the tarmac / Like gunmetal magnets / Fixed on the front of her
	Roger Waters – Too Much Rope
	[Intro] / Sounds of chopping wood and horses pulling a sleigh / [Verse 1] / When the sleigh is heavy / And the timber wolves are getting bold / You look at your companions and
	Roger Waters – Picture That
	Picture That is the fourth song off of Roger Water’s 2017 album Is This the Life We Really Want? The songs presents a dystopia partially based on today’s reality. Roger talks
	Roger Waters (Ft. Don Henley) – Watching TV
	[Intro] / Switch channels / [Refrain] / We were watching TV, watching TV / We were watching TV, watching TV / [Verse 1] / In Tiananmen Square / Lost my baby there / My yellow
	Roger Waters – Perfect Sense
	The monkey sat on a pile of stones / And he stared at the broken bone in his hand / The strains of a Viennese quartet / Rang out across the land / And the monkey looked up at the
	Roger Waters – 4:50 A.M. (Go Fishing)
	[Verse 1] / As cars go by, I cast my mind's eye / Over backpacks on roof racks / Beyond the horizon / Where dream makers / Working in white plastic processors / Invite the unwary
	Roger Waters – Perfect Sense, Part I
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	Roger Waters (Ft. P. P. Arnold) – Perfect Sense (Parts I and II) (Live)
	[HAL]: Stop Dave / Will you stop Dave? / Stop Dave / I'm afraid / I'm afraid / Dave, my mind is going / I can feel it / I can feel it / My mind is going / There is no question
	Roger Waters – Brain Damage
	[Intro] / Why don't we re-record "Dark Side of the Moon"? / He's gone mad / [Verse 1] / The lunatic is on the grass / The lunatic is on the grass / Remembering games and daisy
	Roger Waters – Sunset Strip
	A new day dawns, and Billy plays with his Uncle David’s pet dog. Although he lives the wonderful, hustling and bustling Los Angeles lifestyle, he feels alienated and out-of-place
	Roger Waters – Three Wishes
	[Spoken Sample] / "I went to buy a....a gas bottle. At first, I wanted to buy a big one, but then I hadn't got enough money, so I had to buy a smaller one. And I think if I bought
	Roger Waters – When We Were Young
	[Intro] / When we were young, we could piss off the boys' bog wall / A black expanse of pitch, or tar, or whatever it was... / When we were young, we could piss off the boys' bog
	Roger Waters – The Most Beautiful Girl
	[Verse 1] / She may well have been / The most beautiful girl in the world / Her life snuffed out / Like a bulldozer crushing a pearl / [Verse 2] / The secret committee / Deep in
	Roger Waters – The Bravery of Being Out of Range
	[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / You have a natural tendency to squeeze off a shot / You're good fun at parties, you wear the right masks / You're old but you still like a laugh
	Roger Waters – Amused to Death
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	Roger Waters – Smell the Roses
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	Roger Waters – 5:01 A.M. (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking)
	[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1: Roger Waters & Hells Angel (Jack Palance)] / An angel on a Harley / Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone / (Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo) / Puts