The Trial

This song is about all the people that led Roger Waters build a wall around himself to block everyone out.

He realizes that he built the wall, and he doesn't need it, but it was revealed to him by those who gave him reason to build it: his power-hungry schoolmaster, his cheating wife, and his control freak mother. Nice little twist of irony there, isn't it?

"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.

This song brings out the three things that caused Roger Waters to build walls aroudn him self. (The teacher, the girlfriend, the mother) In the end the Judge tells Roger that he is sentenced to face up to his peers and tear down the wall hes built between them and him

It's also about him realizing how far gone he is, the emerging from his self-imposed exile.

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!!

I think ThreeDogNight is an idiot. As potatoe said, the wall came out in december 1979 and he does not miss his father, he wished he would have known him because his mom is so damn over protective that he thinks that maybe if his father were still there things would be better (the show must go on). His father died in WW2 when he was still a baby. The trial is his mental breakdown. He has build a wall to cut himself from everything that pissed him off as a protection, but he build too high and therefore he can t get out. Now, what i m wondering about is, what did he mean in the trial when he says: There must have been a door there in the wall??? You have to remember that this guy is crazy, he is actually locked in a hotel room in LA, and if any of you remember this, he beat the shit out of that hotel room in One of my Turns and smashes a window with a TV. I thought that was the door, that his only way out was suicide, through over dosing. But i m not sure, because he does get out there in the trial. And also, beside the fact that they are a symbol of decay, what are the worms, and worm your honor, how did follow the worms tied into his misery and then to the trial where he was sentenced to be exposed before his peers???

JesseDC : interesting opinion that the wall is a bit like The Matrix. I think this song means that Pink is so screwed up by the life he has led. Be it from drugs, stress his upbringing(parents, teachers, and girlfriends. That he is forced to confront his demons. and only then can he be free to be who he is.

There must have been a door there in the wall When I came in

And then at the very end of the album, you can hear him say "Isn't this where we came in?"

Interesting

to me the song is about being on trial by all your peer's own twisted thoughts bout you and in order to become one of them and leaving you with the worse of all judges A GIANT ASS