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On Saturday, August 28, 1999, the show at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, was almost at an end...Roger Waters gets the crowd to quiet down before the Bleeding Hearts begin the encore...


A few years ago, an Italian journalist from a Florentine newspaper, involved in the Iniziativa contro la tortura, which is the initiative against torture in Northern Italy, sent some lyrics to Roger Waters written by a South American man who had been tortured. The English translation (which represents the first stanza of the song) proved to be very moving, and was set to music. The words remained untouched.. Until Kosovo.

The London Times had a piece which told the story of a Serbian soldier who saw an Albanian (Kosovar) woman lying wounded in a burned-out building. He left his platoon, went over and helped her, and then joined his men and marched off. There was sense in that image. The rest of the song lyrics are a reflection of that event.

Each Small Candle

Not the torturer will scare me
Nor the body's final fall
Nor the barrels of death's rifles
Nor the shadows on the wall
Nor the night when to the ground
The last dim star of pain, is held
But the blind indifference
Of a merciless unfeeling world
Lying in the burnt out shell
Of some Albanian farm
An old Babushka
Holds a crying baby in her arms
A soldier from the other side
A man of heart and pride
Breaks ranks, lays down his rifle
And kneels by her side
He binds her wounds
He gives her food
And calms the crying child
She gives him absolution then
Across the great divide
He picks his way back through the broken
China of her life
And there at the kerb
The samaritan Serb turns..
Turns and waves.. goodbye
And each small candle
Lights a corner of the dark...
When the wheel of pain stops turning
And the branding iron stops burning
When the children can be children
When the desperados weaken
When the sea rolls into greet them
When the natural law of science
Greets the humble and the mighty
And the billion candles burning
Lights the dark side of every human mind
Each small candle
Lights a corner of the dark...

Lyrics copyright 1999 Roger Waters all rights reserved...

The first new song from Roger Waters since "Amused To Death"...

On August 28, 1999, Roger Waters plays this moving anthem for the first time live, encoded here in mp3 format for you...

Click below and download "Each Small Candle",

After some excited applause, Roger announces that "this is the last song" and the Bleeding Heart Band finishes the last show of the "In the Flesh" 1999 tour with "Comfortably Numb"
. Click below to hear this .mp3 file...

Learning to Fly The Division Belle - soon to be released docu-musi video about the little known airships that toured both North America and europe to promote Pink floyd's 1994 World Tour...

The above image is of a ticket to a show in New Orleans that was cancelled about a week after the tickets went on sale...

Here is a listing of commercial videos related to Pink Floyd that are "in the vault"

- Pink Floyd -
London 66 - 67 - (30 minutes) VHS NTSC PFVN 1

Live at Pompeii - 1972 (60 minutes) VHS 080 731-3

Live at Nassau coliseum - February 27, 1980- (Dub from private collection)...

La Carrera Panamericana - 1987 (70 minutes) VHS 19V 49128

In Concert Delicate Sound of Thunder - 1989 (100 minutes) VHS 49019

P.U.L.S.E - 1995 (145 minutes) VHS 24V 56121


- Roger Waters -

The Wall Live In Berlin - Saturday, July 21st, 1990 (120 minutes) VHS 082 649-3

"What God Wants, Part 1 - 1992 (15 minutes) VHS 9V 49148

In The Flesh -Live- 2000 (150 minutes) VHS CV 54185 (note: "Each small candle" is played on this show, but is much more refined, yet less raw and emotional than the Kansas City version months earlier...)

-David Gilmour -

David Gilmour (About Face Tour) 1984 (101 minutes) VHS 7078

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