Roger Waters shares moving video for ‘The Last Refugee’

Lifted from Roger’s upcoming album ‘Is This The Life We Really Want?’, the video was directed by Sean Evans, who also co-directed the 2014 concert film Roger Waters: The Wall.

The video juxtaposes the lives of two different women - one affected by a humanitarian crisis and the other who is not - and ends with poignant footage of the displaced woman discovering a child’s washed up toy on a beach.

Watch the video here:

Roger’s first rock album in 25 years, ‘Is This The Life We Really Want?’ boasts 12 new Roger Waters musical compositions and is released on Friday 2nd June via Columbia Records.

Produced, mixed and featuring keyboards and guitar from Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, the album is an “unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times” and is kindred spirits with the thematically weighty Pink Floyd classics ‘Animals’ and ‘The Wall’.

Available to pre-order in both physical and digital formats right now, the physical version includes a double 180-gram vinyl LP in a gatefold jacket and a 4-panel soft pack CD.

The ‘Last Refugee’ lyrics are as follows:

Lie with me now
Under lemon tree skies
show me the shy, slow smile you keep hidden by warm brown eyes

Catch the sweet hover of lips just barely apart
and wonder at loves sweet ache,
and the wild beat of my heart.

Oh, rhapsody tearing me apart.

And I dreamed I was saying goodbye to my child
she was taking a last look at the sea.
Wading through dreams, up to our knees in warm ocean swells
while bathing belles, soft beneath
hard bitten shells punch their iPhones,
erasing the numbers of redundant lovers.

and search the horizon
and you'll find my child
down by the shore
digging around for a chain or a bone
searching the sand for a relic washed up by the sea.

The last refugee