Talk:Wearing the Inside Out

Wearing the Inside Out
I recently contacted British musician Anthony Moore, credited with writing the lyrics to this song, in order to ask him some questions about it. He had some very interesting things to say about the title and how its double meaning is related not only to the song but also to what seems to be the running theme of the album as a whole. Of even more interest are the questions he very explicitly avoided answering...

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From: "Eric Vinyard"  To: "Anthony Moore" <****@mail.khm.de> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 Subject: Wearing the Inside Out

Hi, Mr. Moore, I hope I'm not bothering you by asking you this...

My name is Eric, I'm a rather avid listener of Pink Floyd. Lately I've been really into The Division Bell and I'm trying to gather some information about the more mysterious bits of it in order to satisfy my curiosities. I noticed that you were credited with the lyrics to one of the most interesting songs on the album, Wearing the Inside Out.

I've listened to this song many, many times now. I absolutely love it, but for the life of me, I can't figure out its true meaning. I know David Gilmour is not in the habit of explaining his work; he'd rather let the fans "work it out for themselves." If you as well are not too keen on elaborating on your lyrics, I'll understand. If you are, it would really, really make my day.

Aside from the meaning of the song and where it cames from, I have one more slightly peculiar question. I do quite a lot of research regarding the Publius Enigma (you may or may not have heard of it, but I assume that you have), and one of the funny things that has been pointed out about Wearing the Inside Out is that on page 13 of the booklet, an anagram of the word "enigma" appears in the lyrics.

There is a photo of the instance at http://llddmm.home.att.net/NI_AGME.jpg if you'd like to see it for yourself. I was wondering if this was intentional on your part, and if it was, if it had anything to do with the Publius thing.

Thanks for your time if you decide to reply, and thanks again for the music!

Eric Vinyard

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From: "Anthony Moore" <****@mail.khm.de> To: "Eric Vinyard"  Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 Subject: Wearing the Inside Out

Dear Eric Vinyard

I doubt I can really satisfy your expectations but in fact nearly all the content of the meaning in the lyrics can be extrapolated from the double meaning of the title

1. wearing the inside out - as in a worn out tyre; wearing out your inner existence, becoming exhausted with too much reflection and thinking

2. wearing the inside out - as in voluntarily revealing your inner self to the world, that is, not hiding anything

so both, pretty much opposite meanings, co-exist. and the co-existence of differences is in fact what music is all about, waves instead of particles

so searching for a single meaning is already erroneous, the true meaning is that there must be more than a single meaning for truth to exist

that could be why you sometimes have 2 sets of lyric sung simultaneously in the song

well hope that helps even if it doesn't make yr day

anthony

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--Chinagreenelvis (talk) 16:24, 8 May 2008 (UTC)