The Gunner 's Dream " is a song from Pink Floyd 's 1983 album '' The Final Cut '' . This song was one of several to be considered for the band 's " best of " album , '' Echoes : The Best of Pink Floyd '' . The song tells the story and thoughts of an airman gunner as he falls to his death during a raid , dreaming of a safe world in the future , without war . It is one of the four songs on the video version of the album '' The Final Cut '' Video EP . In his lyrics , Waters references real-life events including the then very recent Hyde Park and Regent 's Park bombings , and takes the refrain " some corner of a foreign field " from Rupert Brooke 's poem '' The Soldier
Hyde Park and Regent 's Park bombings
Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings
The Gunner's Dream