Roger Waters shares “reimagined” version of Pink Floyd’s ‘Comfortably Numb’ with Palestinian singer Mona Miari, hopes it will be seen as “prophetic”

Roger Waters has shared a “reimagined” version of Pink Floyd‘s ‘Comfortably Numb’ with Palestinian singer Mona Miari – check it out below. ‘Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined’ transforms the song from 1979’s ‘The Wall’ into a nine-minute tribute to the Palestinian people, featuring new English and Arabic lyrics and a video with footage filmed in Gaza. The original refrain of “I have become comfortably numb” has been adapted by Waters and Miari into: “I will never become comfortably numb.” A new section written by Miari, titled ‘Hind’s Lullaby’, has also been added, inspired by the story of Hind Rajab, the six-year-old Palestinian girl killed alongside members of her family in Gaza in January 2024. Watch the video here: Proceeds from the release will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Speaking to WIRED, Waters has said he hopes that people hearing the song would resonate a decade from now. “I hope they’ll hear that it was prophetic – there is a right and a wrong,” he said. “This is not complicated, and this song is on the right side of history.” “I hope they’ll go, ‘Phew’. They were part of the resistance, and we are part of the resistance. Ṣumūd.” Ṣumūd is an Arabic term...