Pink Floyd: The Wall

false · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: Pink Floyd: The Wall

Does anyone else think this album is describing someone with social anxiety, specifically avoidant personailty disorder? I can't get over some of the lyrics.

The entire "wall" concept is simple enough to imagine...someone building a "wall" between themselves and the real world to protect themselves, then suddenly realizing they want back out, but can't.

I think the lyrics "there must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in" in the last song of the second disc really cinch how I feel today. I built the wall but now I want out. Yet I can't.

Of course the judge orderes the destruction of "the wall" and sentences the protaganist to be "exposed before his peers" at the end, but one thing I can't figure out is who the judge represents.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
Thanks for reading.

COALPORTER · Newbie User Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Posts: 47

I THOUGHT THE WHOLE ALBUM WAS ABOUT SID BARRET OR ROGER WATERS CRAPPY CHILDHOOD OR HIS DAD GETTING KILLED IN WAR OR SOMETHING. Shocked

Remus · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:18 am Post subject:

my favourite album of all time!!!!

as my my avatar proves lol

yes I totally connect with the album after having childhood trauma and a breakdown myself

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Tryin · Advanced User Joined: Sep 04, 2006 Posts: 411

false · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:43 am Post subject:

Hey I thought no one was ever going to reply to this, lol.

To the guy in all caps:
I admit I am rather young and I am sure many pot smoking scientists have analyzed the album over the years to determine exactly what he was singing about; I should have made it more clear that this was more my interpretation than anything else about the album.

Even though I was like.........6 when this album came out I really enjoy listening to it, and usually listen to some of one of the discs each day, in my car.

Thanks for the responses!

edit - yes, I have seen the movie, although I forget most of it due to my "state of mind" at the time. My friends convinced me there was only one way to experience that movie...