| Pink Floyd – The Trial Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "There must have been a door" isn't saying "there was a door". It just refers to how completely trapped he is, and how frustrated. It's the classic, 'What goes up must come down' scenario - he got in somehow, me must be able to reverse the process and get out. Getting out implies a door. He just shows how horrible it is to be trapped IN somewhere without a way to get OUT, even though he knows there is an out. | |
| Pink Floyd – Waiting for the Worms Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No-one seems to have mentioned the relevence of the worms as a metaphor of Pink's mental breakdown in the film (As in The Trial, and in Hey You: "and the worms ate into his brain"). Clearly at this point he sees his breakdown happening, and is at the point where he is powerless to resist. "Sitting in a bunker here behind the Wall, waiting for the worms to come" This just means he's waiting behind the metaphorical and alienating wall he has around him waiting for the final decay of his sanity, unable to stop it now. The war is an obvious theme, but only there to give the deeper level some sort of context or justification. As is true throughout the whole album. If you've never though of it like that - listen again! |
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| Pink Floyd – The Trial Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The Wall album is obviously a story. You can't listen to one song without understanding it as part of the whole - and this is the best example. On a metaphorical level, the story of Pink is about his growing up and all of the factors that built the wall around him alienating him from everybody, and all the 'bricks in the wall' which made him insane. This track is the accumulation of the whole thing! His eventual mental breakdown. All of the things that have been building up throughout the album come back to haunt him and flips him over the edge. And this is a great way to go out!! | |
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