Long Way Away From Eden

Prologue: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is considered to be one of the best concept albums in the history of music. A few days ago, I did a little experiment by changing the chronology that starts from Speak to Me and ends at Eclipse and playing the album starting with the track Money and ending it at The Great Gig in the Sky. Miraculously, the experiment paid off as I connected the dots and found a story about a man who is born rich into this materialistic world (Money), but later realizes the reality of the world (Us and Them), then he makes a choice where there is no choice (Any Colour You Like) and halfway through his life, he experiences his own insanity and he witnesses the harsh bitter truths of life (Brain Damage-Eclipse). He is reborn as a lunatic in the middle age crisis of his life (Speak to Me-Breathe) and towards the end, he realizes how his entire life got behind him as he missed the starting gun (On the Run & Time) and the ultimate culmination of pain, realization, life and death (The Great Gig in the Sky). 

At the end of the long winding road, there once lived a dear old friend.
Ever since he flew across the ocean, that road has a different uncared end. 

It was all just another jungle, all dark and dense and dangerous. 

But now humans live here and the killings have become far more monstrous. 

The aging Grandma's weak eyes stared far and deep into emptiness.

And the concrete in the new forest tested her for the proof of loneliness. 

It fluttered behind her, the possibility of an alternate past. 

She had to say goodbye to the clear blue skies, but time had run out fast. 

Wondering and dreaming if there'll be another day as much sunny,

The child stood watching as his parents were massacred for money. 

A thumb in his mouth and a balloon in the other hand,

The dream was snatched away from his watering eyes, it was his childhood's end. 

The papers next day rambled about a film star who passed away at ninety three, 

But none commented about the environmentalist who'd just chopped off another tree. 

Another columnist wrote about the rise and fall of a soccer legend,

But none mentioned that child who never built another castle in the sand. 

The survivors from the catastrophe look up at the Sun, wishing for a brighter tomorrow. 

The Gods refused to give the consoling speech and the last rabbit has hopped away into its burrow. 

A monk sermonizes about the inevitable quest of the search of one true heaven.

But why can't you all see? We've distanced our souls a long way away from Eden..