Talk:Wearing the Inside Out

message: 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" <vinyardeo@vcu.edu>
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" <vinyardep@vcu.edu>
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)
thread_title:  Wearing the Inside Out