Human Condition

“The Gunner’s Dream” is a Pink Floyd song off of the 1983 album “The Final Cut”. This song shows the thoughts of a gunner in World War 2 “floating down, through the clouds” towards the battlefield. During his descent, the gunner dreams of his future after the war. He envisions himself not living through the war. His family members are walking away from a service in November, presumably a Remembrance Day Ceremony. His dream carries onto a peaceful world, one away from the useless death…