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Definitely Not Another Brick In The Wall!

It was 2005 and my uncle introduced me to this artist. I was hooked!  The first song I heard was comfortably numb and it was right there I fell in love with the style of music. This song could relax you in the most tensed of situations. Retrospectively, it usually makes me think of the days I was a kid. As a kid, I used to suffer from severe asthma attacks and I used to lie on the bed gazing through the window sill at trees swaying to a tune made by air. It used to relax me a lot then. It was haunting. And a song to bring out those memories from a deep brain is simply an amazing feat. Each one of us would have had such abstract thoughts in our childhood which we would probably not admit today. But, each one of us will have some abstract memory flashing in our eyes if you'd listen to 'comfortably numb'.  The guitar literally sings in Gilmour's solos. And there is something in the singing of the guitars, that will relax you in any given tensed moment, like a shot of mo