| Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow. You people. I'll bet you read "Cat in the Hat" as a metaphor. "Was the cat really ... in ... the hat?" "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt.2" has to at least be taken in context with the other two parts, if not with The Wall in its entirety. At least listen along with its intro - "The Happiest Days of Our Lives": When we grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could.... The entire first half of the album is a flashback to what made Pink have his nervous breakdown ("One of My Turns"). The bricks in the wall are purely psychological. It's not an allegory for anything. It's a mental wall. Period. The first brick in the wall: "Daddy's flown across the ocean, leaving just a memory." It's about bad teachers. "All in all, you're just another brick in the wall" - this wall Pink's building in his head; the teachers were just another brick. A father dead in WWI, just another brick. A loveless marriage, drugs, just bricks in the wall. I mean, sure, it's poetic. But it's pretty straightforward. The problem with having only certain songs on a concept album becoming hits is that they get taken out of context. Imagine trying to find the meaning in the Who's "Pinball Wizard" if you're not familiar with the narrative of Tommy. This is also true of this song. Oh, and it might be slightly about Pink Floyd wanting to record something in 1979 with a bit of a disco tinge to it. |
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