From: chinagreenelvis@gmail.com   
      
   The Division Bell is basically about an end to war, and raises the question of   
   whether or not an end to war is ever really an end to war.   
      
   Pink Floyd are advocating a thing they aren't sure is even possible. World   
   Peace sounds great on paper, but is it even achievable?   
      
   This is also a metaphor for personal wars; grudges. The whole David vs Roger   
   thing runs a bit through the album because it serves as an example of such. It   
   was always a battle over something Syd started, and something inexplicable was   
   lost forever when    
   Syd was left behind. Gilmour's struggle for control over the ship of Floyd was   
   obviously a huge influence in his writing, even though he is dismissive about   
   that being the primary theme. I think he felt it served as a microcosm of the   
   way the world works    
   at large.   
      
   Gilmour was also very apprehensive about false hope. The fall of the Berlin   
   Wall is a major talking point of The Division Bell. David recognized that it   
   was a symbol that was supposed to mean that things were "all right" again   
   finally, but the Berlin    
   Wall coming down had immediate consequences that were not easily resolved, and   
   it failed to resolve larger problems that most of the world imagined it   
   represented. No doubt that parallels between the Berlin Wall and Roger Waters'   
   "The Wall" were abundant,   
    and even though I'm certain the new Pink Floyd recognized that, they were   
   definitely actively trying to downplay that as the theme lest the rest of the   
   world get distracted by those connections.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)