Careful With That Axe Eugene. Meaning Please?

[OPBASSMAN1994]

Is this interesting Pink Floyd instrumental (minus darkly whispered phrases and Roger Water's crazy screams) about an axe murderer named Eugene, or is it a rock star named Eugene who is betraying his destiny (Effectively killing the "star", and later "stars", or is it all a bunch of nonsense designed to scare the crap out of you as you admire it's musical dynamics, flow, and gradual build into a crazy solo passage begun with a very impressive Roger Waters inward scream?

Any ideas?

[mildbill]

I vote for the latter possibility.

[pedroims]

is about a roadie name Eugene, he was moving some guitars around and almost drop one but thanks Roger he did not. Thats the meaning of Careful with that axe Eugene !!

[mtonbass]

LSD was said to have facilitated interpretations of early Floyd material.

+1 on the roadie interpretation.

[Banky]

or is it all a bunch of nonsense designed to scare the crap out of you as you admire it's musical dynamics

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[AltGrendel]

Originally Posted by pedroims

is about a rodie name Eugene, he was moving some guitars around and almost drop one but thanks Roger he did not. Thats the meaning of Careful with that axe Eugene !!

This

[OPBASSMAN1994]

Really, so they had a roadie named Eugene?

The whole thing is Roger Waters admonishing Eugene ("The Star screams" being Roger Water's screaming as Eugene is about to drop the axe), and doing so in the disguise of an axe murderer thing. (which would be like a joke that Roger would kill Eugene if he did drop it.)

That makes sense and would fit for Pink Floyd.