The Gunner's Dream
| "The Gunner's Dream" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Pink Floyd from the album The Final Cut | |
| Published | Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd |
| Released | 21 March 1983 (UK) 2 April 1983 (US) |
| Recorded | July–December 1982 |
| Genre | Progressive rock, symphonic rock, jazz fusion |
| Length | 5:07 |
| Label |
Harvest Records (UK) Capitol Records (US) |
| Writer(s) | Roger Waters |
| Producer(s) | Roger Waters, James Guthrie and Michael Kamen |
"The Gunner's Dream" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album The Final Cut. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd. The song tells the story and thoughts of an airman gunner as he falls to his death during a raid, dreaming of a safe world in the future, without war. It is one of the four songs on the video version of the album The Final Cut Video EP. In his lyrics, Waters references real-life events including the then very recent Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings, and takes the refrain "some corner of a foreign field" from Rupert Brooke's poem The Soldier.
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