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This is for us to discuss why the entire album was written, not just the songs individually, but for the concept behind the entire album. RelatedUnique Illustrations That Show The Disturbed World Of Pink Floyd. The general idea being that we all build these walls to keep out the cold world. Non-lyrical content copyright 1999-2020 SongMeanings, Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. Excellent interpretation. Well, it's not ABOUT WATERS, IT IS WATERS. I will refrain from going into a liberal bashing rant but when you learn about Christopher Columbus and slavery for eons disregarding the Holocaust and such, it is quite obvious that George Bernard Shaw has made his mark....carefully select the environment in which the seedling must thrive and you will have effectively grown what you intended to sow. In there was a video where Roger talked about this. So ever since those times ''the deluder satan act law'' that was eventually hijacked by the thing the Puritans rebuked the most, by which became a Satan plan anyway that may still want Christians and their children to remain ignorant and dumbed down in sin. VERY talented group of guys... Holy shit! Roger Waters turned solitude, loneliness, and emotional collapse into a powerful—and beautiful—opera with The Wall and its fictional character, Pink Floyd. 3 song meanings. Pink Floyd Song Meanings. Don’t have an account? It's about Pink thinking back to his painful past in school, and how wonderful it would be if children would revolt again the teachers. If you ever get a chance to pick up the album the lyrics and album title are all marker written on a drawn brick wall. leave the kids alone' they are talking about the kids'jews' who don't have any protection and don't know what is waiting for them when they are going to the work fields, where are killed thousands and thousands of them.

RainbowDemon, edited by Mellow_Harsher. Song meanings ©2003-2020 lyricinterpretations.com, Sorry, "Comfortably Numb" Isn't Drug-Related. The "wall" of which the authority figures are just another brick of is the wall that the protagonist has built up around himself as a shield from a world that hurts him.

), “Holy” by Justin Bieber (ft. Brick by brick you are able to build an impenetrable wall if and only if all of the bricks are identical and uniform for no one brick with flaws can formulate the whole as the subtle weaknesses could potentially cause the whole structure to crumble (fall?) It's not criticizing any education system in any way. asks. The key idea is (WE the kids/ people ) as building blocks of the future - we are all bricks in one wall or another. Pink Floyd's The Wall, much like Michel Houellebecq's Whatever, Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, or Alber Camus' The Stranger, perfectly exemplifies the social ailments of its time. The meaning of the song, of which the posted lyrics here make up only a part, is not what many think it to be; one of shrugging off the limitations imposed by authorities and going your own way. "Comfortably Numb" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on their eleventh album, The Wall (1979). This PINK FLOYD song of Roger Waters seems to speak against the modern day public school educational system's teachings. That's exactly explained (I lived it and the song also describes it perfectly, as stupid as it is). They would eliminate any creativity and humiliate the children. As social animals, we're destined to interact with other human beings. Fuck an A++! Otherwise, society itself would obviously come apart and an essential part of what makes us humans would go extinct. Obviously, his search for a substitute mother and a wife fails. And this only happens in the first recitation. This is why the album is so relevant in music history—it manages to transcend mundane artistic manifestations and touch upon profound themes that will be studied for years to come. It controls what they learn in school, which involves the children basically being brainwashed to do as the gov't. His infancy faces his father's absence (one of the casualties of war) and his mother's overprotection, who tries to shield Pink from all the dangers of life by any means necessary. We/- is the most important word - A voice from the children. I have always heard, "we don't need no forced control" as opposed to "thought control" which is why this song is amazing because both the implied and actual inferences drive the same meaning....what more penetrating and effective than forced thought control via "education."

Which seems like a great idea as Pink goes through his life relatively normal-like except for that whole, becoming a rock star bit.