Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
As a child, Pink begins building a mental wall between himself and the world so that he can distance himself from the pain of life, such as having to grow up without a father, killed in battle during World War II.
[Verse]
Daddy's flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
A snapshot in the family album
Daddy, what else did you leave for me?
Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me?
All in all, it was just a brick in the wall
All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall
[Outro]
Hey!
*Children playing*
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 was written by Roger Waters.
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 was produced by Roger Waters & James Guthrie & David Gilmour & Bob Ezrin.
Pink Floyd released Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 on Fri Nov 30 1979.
Assuming this question is about the movie The Wall and the tunnel is the one where Pink sets bullets on the railroad, just before “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2,” the teacher says, “You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddy!.”
The central metaphor in the album is that the narrator is building a mental and emotional wall around himself in response to the traumas of life. The wall represents the way that people tend to close themselves off from each other as they grow older. Each new trauma is represented as another brick i...
You see it works on various levels–it doesn’t have to be about the war–I mean it should work for any generation really. The father is also… I’m the father as well. You know, people who leave their families to go and work, not that I would leave my family to go and work, but lots of people do and hav...
In an interview with Jim Ladd, Roger Waters shares:
…it’s also meant to be about any family really where either parent goes away for whatever reason. Whether it’s to go and fight somebody or to go and work somewhere. In a way, it’s about rock stars leaving home for a long time as well to go on tour...