"Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying" is him talking to himself again, he says he knows he shouldn't do drugs, but it takes the pain away so he isn't going to listen to himself. "You are only coming in through waves" is him talking with himself, its hard to think when you're tripping acid so his thoughts are only coming in waves because he can't focus. Just a little pin prick There’ll be no more aaaaaaaah But you may feel a little sick. "There is no pain that you are feeling" is him telling himself that he doesn't really need drugs to feel better, everyone has it tough. 1979 : The Wall Album, Pink Floyd Lyrics 46 Views. Then the lighter tone voice comes in, and this is the better voice in his head. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Letra e música para ouvir) - The child is grown / The dream is gone / And I have become / Comfortably numb. You know it's the bad voice in his head speaking, because it has a deeper more dark tone to it. Comfortably Numb is a song interpreted by Pink Floyd, released on the album The Wall in 1979. The reason he used drugs was because of some event that took place in his life, this is where "can you show me where it hurts" because the drugs "speak" to him before he takes them, and when he trips L.S.D is whenever the event in his life starts to take over his mind and make him depressed, and the drugs ensure that he will feel better once he takes them. He just uses the time he got shot up with pain meds before a show as an example. The darkness being the temptation of drug through his entire life, almost speaking to him.
But it's also a discussion in his head between lightness and darkness.
Also he caught a terrible fever when he was younger and it compares the fever from when he was younger, to him being high on painkillers during a show.
The meaning is about when he thought he got the stomach flu so they pumped him full of painkillers before a show, so he could go on and preform.