The Trial Lyrics

Lyric discussion by goldfish 

Cover art for The Trial lyrics by Pink Floyd

"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.

@goldfish

nope,there was indeed a door in there when he got in.listen to the whole album since its a conceptual album,a story.he talks about it in Empty Spaces. the door he made was one of the empty spaces he covered.when you are isolated from other people adn build a wall to keep everyone out, you also take on a new lifestyle which involves further isolation,be it material or spiritual.material objects or hedonism which comes with the life of a rockstar like Pink(drugs and big apartments) or irrational fear,which was the root of the adulterous trait of Pink's wife.she is shown...