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We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone
All in all, it's just another brick in the wall
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
Wrong, do it again
Wrong, do it again
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
You, yes
You, behind the bike sheds, stand still, laddy
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone
All in all, it's just another brick in the wall
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
Wrong, do it again
Wrong, do it again
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
You, yes
You, behind the bike sheds, stand still, laddy
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Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Lyrics as written by George Roger Waters
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I haven't read through every one of the 200-plus comments here, but wondered if anyone had noticed the blatant anti-feminine tone of the song, but more, the movie "The Wall." It's been decades since i saw it, and all i can remember is my disappointment at how the women--teachers, mothers--were made to represent conformity, civilization, tyranny; while the poor little boys just want to play and be wild and crazy, these big mean mommies are trying to make them behave. Of course we all know growing up and living in society is a compromise, and different people are comfortable with different levels of freedom and of responsibility. You can look at having to adjust to rules of social living (don't steal; share your toys; clean up after yourself; don't hit others; be nice to the doggie; make yourself presentable; eat the nutritious stuff before the junk; don't play with your wee-wee in public; etc.) as oppressive to the spirit, but then again, you can see their value in keeping a civil and healthy society. Either way, it happens, whether a government, a mob (the tribe), the family, the church, is doing it: they raise us to behave a certain way, especially in public. To associate the objectionable aspects of being educated, civilized, etc., with the feminine principle is childish and misogynistic. Seriously--i love Pink Floyd's music, but i remember when i saw that movie, thinking, "What a bunch of knuckleheads--grow up and forgive your mummies for raising you. She didn't do so badly, now did she? Oh well nowadays they'll just give the kids some ADHD medication--the mommies, the daddies, and the doctors seem to agree. Now there's a real brick wall--creating little addicted consumers out of normal, energetic, cloistered children! I suppose there's a song about that, or there ought to be. But hopefully the "drug-them-down" force isn't characterized as a woman.
There's a song in this album dedicated to Roger's mother. Obviously not all Italians are mobsters but people need a bad guy in a movie and who better than an Italian born guy who went up the ranks to become a mafia king. Roger is angry at the education system and that is who ridicules in these songs. You generalize people again by implying that all mothers nowadays are incompetent and lazy.
The whole argument that, because the teachers are women and portrayed in a negative way, the movie is anti-feminine is, rather than just being stupid, also dangerous. If they had been male, had you reacted at all? No. Because portraying men as evil is accepted as standard, but in this new age of feminism any portrayal of any woman in any negative light is viewed as anti-feminine.<br /> <br /> The reason they're women is partly because of the main characters search for a father figure; there needs to be an absence of possible father figures in order for the movie to progress.<br /> <br /> As far as your problems with ADHD medication; I've been diagnosed with ADHD for 14 years now, and the medicine helps me immensely. Please don't disregard the potential help it can actually give to those who actually have problems.
I don't notice any anti-feminine tone at all. You might be juxtaposing the pattern that most British teachers, historically, are women. It's definitely a British tone – "if you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding..."