In the hit album Pink Floyd's The Wall, Roger Waters shows his longing for the past in the song "Vera". In order to fully understand this, you will need some basic knowledge about Roger Waters. Waters' father fought and died in World War II, leaving the two-year-old boy without a father. Not having a father would later prove to have negative impacts on Waters' life and happiness. The lyrics of “Vera”, although confusing, are very meaningful. “Does anyone here remember Vera Lynn?” Remember how she said we'd see each other again some sunny day? The Vera Lynn mentioned by Roger Waters was a popular singer in the early 1940s. Her lyrics spoke of how, after World War II, things would be restored to the way they were before. These words brought hope to the British people who, at the time, were being bombarded on a daily basis. After gaining some basic knowledge about who Vera is and the life of Roger Waters, it becomes clear that Waters is struggling to live before his father was killed. That time is far behind him and will never be achieved, but Waters still hopes for it, just as Gatsby hopes for a moment with Daisy even though it is far behind him. Which brings me to the theme of this article; some people work very hard to bring back the past, but only throw away the future. This theme is present in the lives of people of all ages, throughout society, even in the 1920s. First of all, it will be shown that Gatsby worked so hard to achieve a dream that was already behind him. “Into her blue gardens men and girls came and I went like moths among the whispers and the champagne and the stars. 39Gatsby spends thousands of dollars hoping to make Daisy, an old friend with whom he was deeply in love and obsessed, end up in the middle of a paper......in the green light, the orgiastic future this year after year recedes before us. It escaped us then, but it doesn't matter: tomorrow we will run faster, we will stretch our arms wider. . . And one beautiful morning... So we continued, boats against the current, constantly taken back into the past. »180Gatsby did not want to give up the dream because once the dream was lost, Gatsby's life would then lose its meaning and he would not do it again. no longer want to live. Instead, he kept trying. Finally, after all these things have been accomplished, the reader arrives at the theme; some people work very hard to bring back the past, but only throw away the future. This can be seen in the life of Roger Waters trying to bring his father back even though he was long gone, Jay Gatsby trying to be with Daisy and in the lives of those who have a lost dream somewhere in the past..