It is this disease, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, which forces him to use a speech synthesizer to talk, which is what you hear on ``Keep Talking.'' The phrases he speaks are sampled from a British Telecommunications commercial that Gilmour heard after the song was otherwise completed. Gilmour liked it so much--he said it almost brought him to tears--that he asked BT if he could sample it. Keep Talking - Stephen Hawking ;
"Keep Talking"
"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals [1, see notes below]
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk"
There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
No one can bother me
I think I should speak now Why won't you talk to me
I can't seem to speak now You never talk to me
My words won't come out right What are you thinking
I feel like I'm drowning What are you feeling
I'm feeling weak now Why won't you talk to me
But I can't show my weakness You never talk to me
I sometimes wonder What are you thinking
Where do we go from here What are you feeling
"It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking"
Why won't you talk to me I feel like I'm drowning
You never talk to me You know I can't breathe now
What are you thinking We're going nowhere
What are you feeling We're going nowhere
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
Where do we go from here
"It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking".
Notes:
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[1] The CD lyrics say "...just like animals."
The complete Hawking speach from the BT advert is as follows:
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals.
The something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination.
We learned to talk.
And we learned to listen.
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings
to work together.
To build the impossible.
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking.
And it's greatest failures by NOT talking.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS!
Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future.
With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded.
All we need to do is ...
make sure ...
we keep...
t a l k i n g .
[Thanks to Pink Floyd faq's, Bill the Cat, Mark Stacey and David R. Rorabaugh and Microsoft's Encarta]:
Symfo-Index.