1. When the Tigers Broke Free, Part I
It is a pity that Pink Flody did not include this sad song in "The Wall" album, but thankfully they included it in the movie. "When the tigers broke free" is about British soldiers building a bridgehead in Anzio, Italy during World War II. "The tigers" refers to the German tanks driving back and forth in Anzio, and the last line of the song The phrase "hundreds of ordinary lives" refers to Pink's father's team. In the movie, the first thing we see is the hotel where Pink is staying, and then the camera quickly cuts to a man lighting up, smoking a cigar and cleaning his gun. In fact, he is Pink's father, who is preparing for the war with Germany. In the movie, a song by Vera Lynn called "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forget" was played before and after this song, which is about a little boy who prays for Santa Claus to send him a gift. He received a bongo as a Christmas gift, but his wish did not come true. In little Pink's mind, Santa Claus is actually his father.
2. “In the Flesh”
In the Flesh” has two meanings in this album. When this song appears in the movie , there is a shot of a girl knocking on the door, and then there is a shot of a group of people pushing against two chained doors, and then the chains are broken and thousands of young people rush out. This sequence of shots suggests what is obvious ( Just like the title of the song). The newborn child (Pink) longs to feel the warmth and love in life, but a rational voice reminds him: "Life is not all joy and happiness as you imagine." It is said that if you want to know what life is and what humanity is, you must dare to face all the disguises around us. This song also hints at the pain and loneliness hidden behind his eyes. It became a dark comedy at the end of the song, with the sound of the plane and the cry of "Throw it at them!" "It's deafening, and this plane is the one that dropped the bomb on Anzio land and killed Pink's father. From the strobe of light, sound effects and movements, we can seem to hear Pink screaming. This can't help but make people feel Thinking of Shakespeare's famous play "Macbeth", Macbeth in the play compares life to acting: "Life is just a walking shadow, a poor performer / Supporting and eroding the emotions he performs on the stage. The hour/It's all over, it's just a myth/The madman says, full of echoes in rage/The meaning is over. "It is said that some attentive listeners heard a voice saying in the vague prelude of this song: "...we came in? ” And at the end of the album’s last song, “Out side the wall,” the voice can also be heard saying, “Isn’t this where we came in?” ” Put it upside down and connect it to “Isn’t this where we came in?” ” (Isn’t that where we come in?) In response, Roger Waters explained that the story of The Wall doesn’t just happen to one generation, but to everyone in every generation. When the movie ends, the child They are collecting bricks again, maybe building a wall of their own. Pink is not the first or the last person to build a wall. The nightmare will continue forever.
3. Thin Ice ( The Thin Ice)
The song begins with a child crying, probably the same cry that Pink made when he was born in the movie, as his father's hand slides into a shallow ditch towards a phone. The machine seems to want to ask for help, followed by many scenes of war. As the song says: the innocence of childhood is quickly lost in the so-called "modern life" (such as war).
At this time we can feel the symbol of blue. Blue is a very pure color, often used to represent innocence and melancholy. Pink’s mother calls him “Baby Blue”, which not only represents the child’s innocence, but also It hints at his rough fate in the future. When the quiet voice pleading for hopes and dreams ended, the harsh and harsh voice representing the cruel reality remembered that it compared life to thin ice and warned that if Pink continued to survive, it would be on top of the thin ice of modern life. slide. The thin ice will one day crack under his feet. As he struggles, the cracks will swallow up his life and spirit.
4. Another Brick in the Wall, Part I (Part I)
"Another Brick In the Wall (Part I)" Another Brick One) is the first song on the album to introduce the concept of "The Lost Wall". "Mystery wall" refers to the wall in people's spirit, and it is also the wall that separates people. All people long to interact with others and be understood by others, but the strange thing is that all people build a protective wall for their hearts to prevent others from getting too close and hurting themselves. "Another Brick In the Wall" appears three times on the album, and each time it feels different. This first part is dull, as Pink recalls that his father is gone, flying across the ocean to fight in the war. All his father left him were memories, like old photos in a photo album. His father's death forces him to face a stark reality, even if he doesn't want to. Pink then began to build walls around herself to prevent herself from getting hurt again. There is a dark scene in the movie: Pink and his mother are on the playground, and his mother lets him play by himself. The sensitive little Pink found that all the children had their fathers playing with them, so he walked towards a father and asked him to carry him to the swivel chair. When the man hugged him, the joy on Pink's face was obvious because he had found a father. A father. But this joy soon disappeared, because the man took his child off the swivel chair and walked away. Pink followed him and tried to hold his hand, but he just told Pink to go away and asked Pink where his father was. Disappointed, Pink could only jump on a swing and swing hard. In fact, this is the first time that little Pink realizes that he has lost his father.
5. When the Tigers Broke Free (II) When the Tigers Broke Free (II)
This is the second part of the song at the beginning of the movie. During this section of the music, Pink discovers a letter in a drawer full of memorabilia, sent by the king to his mother, telling him of her husband's death. So Pink learned that his father's Royal Fusiliers (actually the same regiment that Roger Waters' father belonged to) was attacked one winter day. Waters sings the last two lines of the song himself. In the movie, when the song starts, Pink looks in the mirror wearing his father's military uniform. The camera quickly switches between Pink's father in military uniform and little Pink in his father's military uniform, indicating that young people will inevitably continue to suffer a lifetime of suffering, including war.
6. Goodbye, Blue Sky Goodbye, Blue Sky
On the album, this song appears after "Mother", but in the movie, it appears here. I like where it is now because it continues the pain and desolation of "When the Tiger Breaks Out of the Cage (II)". Although the war is over, memories and scars remain. "The fire of war has been extinguished but the pain remains." In this song we once again feel the symbol of blue. "Blue Sky" symbolizes innocence and simplicity, and "Goodbye Blue Sky" is actually Pink saying goodbye to innocence. It also means that the world itself has become no longer innocent after being ravaged by war. When this song was played in the movie, little white pigeons were flying in the blue sky, but a big bird flying down from the Nazi flag drove all the pigeons to death. The bird of war spreads filth while flying across the land, awakening the undead on the battlefield. The stripes on the Union Jack became confused and the blood of Christ spilled onto the ground. No matter how "just" the reasons for war may seem, in the end it is just a waste of life.
7. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
This is a truly ironic song, mainly about Pink's school life. It talks about teachers mocking their students by exposing their shortcomings. In the movie, Pink's teacher accidentally catches him writing a poem in class (actually the poem is the lyrics to Pink Floye's "Money"), and forces him to stand in front of the class and beats him severely. But Pink just wanted to express what makes her unique through poetry. When the teacher returned home, his wife forced him to swallow the inedible meal. This scene of the teacher beating the student alternates with the scene of the teacher's wife forcing him. It is really "karma" and it is also the verification of Waters' "circulation theory".
8. Another Brick In the Wall (II) Another Brick In the Wall (II)
A famous song that continues to tell the story of Pink's life when she was in school in England. Many people think that this song is Pink's attempt to subvert the British education system, but this is not the case. What it emphasizes is that education cannot erase individuality. When children (children's voices) sing "We don't need no education" they are not targeting the education system as a whole, but they are trying to show that they do not need teachers to teach them how to think, do not need to be ideologically controlled, and do not want to be punished for committing crimes. He made small mistakes and was laughed at. Education is not a product mold. In the movie, all the students wear identical expressionless masks and walk at the same pace toward a meat grinder, neither looking back nor looking either way. There are hammers that are constantly beating in the machine, which looks as uniform and powerful as an army. After passing through the meat grinder, all the children were drained of their souls and flesh. What came out of the other end of the meat grinder was a group of walking corpses. Because of the teacher's tyranny, Pink added another brick to the wall.
9. Mother
This is a song about a conversation between little Pink and his mother.
In the movie, the accompaniment of this song sounds less like an acoustic guitar and more like the sound of a music box. This makes the song sound more childlike and innocent, which is dramatic when juxtaposed with the mother's cynical tone. The beginning of the song is Pink's views on the war. She also wants to know whether the world will accept his song or will disappoint him. He asked his mother if she should build a wall and asked him if he should run for president. Of course, I think this question does not really mean that he is running for president, but it means that little Pink still has dreams and hopes.
As for "Am I dying", it refers to Pink's serious illness, which will be mentioned in the song "Comfortably Numb" later. From Pink's mother's words, we can understand that she overprotects her children. But for her there was a good reason: she had lost her husband to the war and didn't want her children to suffer any harm. To me, her love for her children was almost pathological. “Mama is going to make all your nightmares come true/Mama is going to put all your fears on you.”
Unknowingly, Pink's mother put all her fears of war on her child, and then tried her best to protect him from harm. When she agreed to help him build a wall, she was actually helping him escape reality. In fact, she is a brick in Pink's wall.
In the second conversation, Pink asked his mother if his girlfriend (wife) was good enough for him, was dangerous to him, controlled him, and would break his heart. In the mother's answer, we once again understand her pathology: help you choose all your girlfriends, and don't let anyone "dirty" you. She will always wait for her only son to come home, and he will always be her "Baby blue" . The last question is because Pink is worried that if the wall is built too high, he will never be able to come back.
In the movie, when this song is played, there are several descriptions of Pink's post-marriage life. The relationship between the couple is very indifferent, which also lays the groundwork for the future breakup of the two.
10. What Shall We Do Now? What should we do now?
This song only appears in movies and is a song about society.
Pink asks: How do we accept materialism in our daily lives? How can we avoid mental breakdown? The last sentence is particularly wonderful: Our backs are against the wall, but we never rest. We don't want to find a new way out, or care about others. We just have our backs against the wall and we only care about ourselves.
11. Empty Spaces
What should we use to fill the remaining space
Where did we talk in the past
I How to fill the final gap
How can I complete building the wall
Although Pink's relationship with his wife was not good, he still became depressed when he found out that his wife was having an affair. .
In this song, Pink asks his wife what they should do. The most critical thing is the last sentence: "How can I finish building the wall?" It shows that Pink's wall is almost completed. Once the wall is completed, Pink will be completely isolated from the real world. The "remaining space" refers to the several small holes in the wall that Pink needs to fill.
Also, if you play this song backwards, you will find a little secret hidden in it. You will hear Roger Waters say: "Congratulations, you found the secret, please send the answer to Pink." Then the second person says: "Roger, Carolyn called you." The correct answer is that old Pink ended up living in a In a lunatic asylum (or an asylum for the mentally ill). Among them, Carolyn is Roger's wife. Roger Waters often said that if it weren't for Carolyn, he would have ended up in a lunatic asylum like Pink.
12. Young lust
"Young lust" shows a party held by Pink backstage after a concert. In the movie, a few people infiltrate the party, and some of the "lucky ones" return to Pink's hotel bedroom. Pink did this as punishment for cheating on his wife, and although at the time I thought it was just a flashback, I now find out that was not the case. Judging from the plot, it does happen after Pink discovers his wife's cheating. Although the furnishings in the house seem to be different, this may just be some artistic technique of the director.
13. One Of My Turns
When this song played in the movie, Pink was sitting on a chair watching an old war movie, which may have made her He thought of his father. The song starts with a very simple and soft melody. Pink asks his wife why their love is fading and why their relationship has become so cold. Pink discovered how difficult it is to love someone for a long time in today's society because everyone is afraid of being hurt. Pink spoke of his loneliness and the pressure placed on him by society. The "tourniquet" hinted that he had started taking certain medications. Soon the singing stopped being so simple and soft, and Pink started to get angry and ask the woman next to him, "Do you want to watch TV?" His anger suddenly erupted like a volcano, and this was not the first time he lost control of his emotions. As the lyrics say: "This is just a transitional stage, one of my saddest days." It seems that Pink is trapped in this situation on the verge of collapse. He has been in this state for a long time, but the girl around him still can't understand him at all. The old war movie Pink is watching is called "The Dambusters". It is an autobiographical film about the scientist Barnes Wallis who invented a new type of bomb. In the film, the new bombs are everywhere in Germany. All the factories are flooded and all the walls are blown down. So you can also interpret it as Pink wanting some bombs to blow up the walls in people's minds.
14. Don’t Leave Me Now Please don’t leave me now
“Please don’t leave me now” is what Pink said to his unfaithful wife. He tried his best to help her recall the happy times between the two of them in the past - "Do you still remember the flowers I gave you, I need you dear", but he also expressed it by "twisting it into pieces" and "beating it until it couldn't move" Inner anger.
We can feel from this song that the relationship between the two is indeed on the verge of collapse, although his wife insulting him in front of friends or beating him on weekends may just be the imagination of the mentally disturbed Pink. Pink didn't actually hit his wife, but she hurt him emotionally so much that he imagined how to beat her to comfort himself. The last question Pink asked, "Why are you running away?" did not really mean that his wife was running away from home, but a "spiritual escape", that is, his wife already had another lover. This also shows Pink's confusion and loss. However, from our point of view, the relationship between the two has developed to this point, and Pink's wife is seeking new spiritual comfort. It is not entirely her fault. The breakup between the two was caused by Pink constantly adding bricks to his own wall.
15. Another Brick in the Wall (III)
My favorite part of "Another Brick in the Wall" . The song contains many emotional factors such as anger, fear, anxiety, etc., and just a few lyrics capture the essence of most songs in the album. In this song, Pink rejects the world and expresses his unwillingness to accept any help from anyone because he recognizes the cruelty of real society. He "has seen the writing on the wall." I noticed that the "bricks" mentioned in this song have taken the plural form (the first two parts are basically in the singular form). This implies that Pink's mental wall has been built and all the bricks are in place. In the movie, Pink's life is intertwined with carnivals and troublemaking. Life is essentially the same as a chaotic carnival; we cannot control it with our own hands.
16. Goodbye Cruel World
Although from the lyrics, Pink wants to commit suicide, the actual connotation of the song is not like this. Pink did not leave this world by death, he just wanted to live in seclusion behind the wall. At the end of the last "Goodbye", the entire song ends, not to its counterpart "Outside The Wall", where the lyrics end but the music is still going on. This actually shows Pink's determination to leave the people around him. "Goodbye, Cruel World" is a wonderful summary of the album and the first half of the film. In the movie we see Pink looking for cracks in the wall of his huge mental fascination.
17. Hey You
"Hey You" is another famous song from the album "The Wall". Unfortunately, it was not included in the movie. middle. This is Pink's request, because he realizes that being isolated from the world is not as simple as he imagined. In this song, Pink calls for help. Each of us is building a wall, but the height is different. Pink's words are like a pamphlet of translation and meaning: "Don't help them bury the light/Don't give in before the struggle." Pink wants someone to help him remove the "rocks" that are the psychological stress he has endured throughout his life and throughout the process of building the wall. After the guitar solo, a voice representing reality sounded. It says that Pink's idea that someone can help him is purely an illusion because his walls are too high and too strong; he can't get out and no one can get in. "No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't regain his freedom." Despite his efforts, Pink could not free himself from behind the wall. "A swarm of maggots were eating his brain." This phrase explains the metaphor of "maggots." "Maggot" in the traditional sense can have two interpretations. The first explanation is "death", but it is not suitable here. The second explanation is "knowledge", which is Waters' original intention. The knowledge Pink accumulated in his early life led him to start building walls. But once he hid behind the wall, he discovered that life was not as easy as he imagined.
The maggots that devoured his brain cells were knowledge from the real world; although it made people guard against reality, it was also cruel, because while he was isolating danger, he was also isolating himself from the real world. All good mistakes. After "The Sound of Reality" ended, Pink started singing again, but instead of asking people to "feel" or "sooth" him, he asked people to "help" him. In the last sentence, "Together we win, apart we lose." Pink realizes the mistake of building such a high wall.
He realized that he had to admit that sometimes people need each other and that he would surely lose to this cruel world.
18. Is There Anybody Out There? Is there anyone outside the wall?
This song is the most difficult one in the album "The Wall" because it only has one lyric : "Is there anybody out there?"
This is Pink imprisoned inside the wall calling out to the people outside the wall.
In the movie, Pink keeps hitting the wall hard, hoping to be freed, but as sung in "Hey You": "This is just fantasy, as you can see, the wall is lost It has been built too high, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't get out..." After the four depressing sentences of "Is there anybody out there?", a section played by acoustic guitar, and occasionally violin and piano, sounded. sound interspersed period. I think this is the most exciting section of The Wall, and it is also worth recording in the history of rock music. From this, we can feel that what Pink really needs is not to tear down his mental wall, but to live a normal and peaceful life. Readers must still remember the crazy mental state shown by Pink in the song "Don't Leave Me Now". In fact, he was very fragile and in pain. In fact, living a peaceful and ordinary life is what everyone desires deep in their hearts. As we grow older, this desire will become stronger and stronger.
18. Nobody Home
This song is relatively easy to analyze. The lyrics basically say it all and there’s nothing subtle about it. The sentence that people question the most is "those swollen hand blues". Why does Pink have a pair of swollen hands? It has been suggested that when the "swollen hand" blues was sung, it may have been a reference to Pink's use of syringes to inject drugs, as this often caused swelling in the hands. However, I think it could also be a reference to a serious illness Pink had as a child, which is also mentioned in the song "Comfortably Numb", where he says his hands were "swollen like two balloons." Due to the departure of his wife, Pink is experiencing both mental and physical torture. "Every time I call you, no one is home." In fact, no matter how hard he tried to save their relationship, it was impossible for his wife to come back to him, especially when Pink knew that his wife had another relationship. After lovers. Roger Waters uses a very melancholic voice to perform this song, which is moving. A friend of mine says this song is his favorite on the album because it contains some "deep emotional resonance" that few people realize.
In a sense, it describes the incredible fact that a man who seems to have everything actually has nothing. Pink is a "star". His "star" status gave him wealth and power, but it also brought him too much pressure, forcing him to use sex and drugs to anesthetize himself. He had it all, but he realized it meant nothing to him. In fact, thousands of rock stars face the same problem as him. So he began to retreat and pursue a kind of pure love that could only be possessed as a child. This kind of love rejected the interference of the material world and the desire to possess, and was a kind of pure and selfless emotional giving. I think this is not Waters' original intention. "Nobody Home" is actually a metaphor, implying that Pink has lost the opportunity to enjoy family happiness. In "Nobody Home", the movie "The Dambusters" that appeared in the song "One Of My Turns" appears again. From this, we can see that the root cause of Pink's mental torture is actually the war.
19. Vera Does anyone here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember she once said that we will meet again on a sunny day
Vera! Vera! How are you?
Is there anyone else here?
Vera was a famous singer during World War II and was very popular in Europe, especially the United Kingdom.
“We’ll Meet Again” is one of her famous songs, and one of the lyrics is “We’ll meet again some sunny day.” The song is a sketch of Pink's childhood fantasies, but also serves as a lead-in to the next song, "Bringing the Boys Back Home."
20. Bringing the Boys Back Home
"Bring the Boys Back Home" is another war-related song after "Vera Lynn". In the movie, the song is sung at the station with relatives and friends who survived World War II. What is sad is that although young Pink knew that his father had been killed in battle, he still searched hopelessly for his father at the station. In the song, people believe that all soldiers should return to their relatives alive, and that their wives cannot live without them. A husband or a mother cannot lose her son, and a child cannot leave his father...
21. Comfortably Numb Comfortably Numb
"Comfortably Numb" is the most popular song in Pink Floyd's "The Wall" album One of the songs that attracted attention, the reason is: this song is extremely "fun" and makes people feel relaxed. You can even find a Midi version of this song on the Internet. Pink, who was hallucinating due to drugs, was asleep in the hotel. His boss and some friends found him, hoping that he could continue his concert. The first few lines sung by Roger Waters may sound like the voice of Pink's boss or a doctor, but more like a doctor. The doctor was trying hard to wake Pink up and get him moving. So he asks Pink to see if he can understand him: "Hey, is anyone in there/Nod if you can hear me/Is anyone home?" In response, this time it's "Is anyone home?" "
In the previous song, Pink sang: "Is there anyone outside?" The doctor then asked Pink where the injury was so that he could treat Pink's wound. Waters's voice here is dreamlike, as if it's the sound coming through the mud and dense fog. At this time, "Pink" began to speak, saying that he felt no pain and that he could not hear the doctor's voice clearly.
Pink was lost in the memories of her childhood: "The ship was smoking on the distant horizon." The doctor's voice seemed to be riding on the waves. Pink saw the doctor's lips moving, but But couldn't hear clearly what he was saying. Then Pink was completely immersed in memories of her childhood. He said he had a high fever as a child, which is featured in the film version of "Mother": "Am I really dying?" He then recounted the symptoms: "My hands were swollen like two balloons. "Now Pink is suffering from the same mental pain, but doctors can't understand it. "I'm in a comfortable state of numbness," Pink said, feeling numb to her illness, numb to painful memories, and numb to the world around her. He uses his mental wall to keep himself in this state of "comfortable torpor".