The Wall; The Message Behind It

No one really knows just how much you can get out of listening to Pink Floyd. The musical arrangements are fantastic and the words are symbolic. They explain the way our lives change. You just have to look at the album The Wall. It is the story of a rock star who is in a Los Angeli's hotel room somewhere who is watching a movie which is reminding him about his past life. It starts with In the Flesh which shows how his father died in WWII. Then it goes on to Thin Ice which shows the damage of war. Happiest Days Of Our Lives and Another Brick In the Wall are about how his teachers make him feel small. This contributes to the building of a metal barrier around his mind to protect him from the out side world, alienating him self from society. This is the beginning of the building of the wall. Then his mother adds even more blocks to the wall as she tries to protect him from the out side. Goodbye Blue Sky is were he remembers the war and the woes of it. He is building even more of the wall in empty spaces before he tries his luck with love. This goes wrong and he trashes the hotel he stays in and then asks why she is running away in Don't Leave Me Now. Then he builds more bricks in Another Brick In the Wall Part III by rejecting help. Then he says goodbye to the would in Goodbye Cruel World and retreats behind the wall he has built around him self. Everyone out side is asking for him in Hey You and he is asking is there anybody out there. He then remembers his marriage in Nobody's Home. Then He remembers himself as a boy looking for Vera. The the world is asking for the men to be withdrawn from the fight in Bring The Boys Back Home. Then in Comfortably Numb he becomes intoxicated from his memories and isn't well. In In the Flesh Part II Roger Waters sends us a message through out the rest of the movie. That if we were all behind out walls, alienated behind society then we would be like this. A mob of politics. Then he has a trial with in himself and decides to tear down the wall. The last song is a home hitting message that everyone you love is on the other side of the wall. "After all it's not easy banging your heart against some mad buggers wall." This is a album that certainly makes you think and shows us that we should not alienate ourselves from the rest of humanity.