anonymous May 4th, 2006 01:04PM  

I think that this song is about a boy whose father died in the war. Because of this, his mother is overly protective and the boys in his neighborhood treat him like an outcast. His mother "builds a wall" around him, i.e. She isolates him and protects him from everything. Everything he does needs approval from his mother, and he grows up not knowing his own opinions. The last line "Mother, did it need to be so high?" refers to the wall that his mother built around him.

anonymous May 8th, 2007 05:16PM  

Read the liner notes from "the Wall" album, if I remember correctly he isolates him self from all the materialism in life, kind of like soloman in the old testament chasing after pleasure is meaningless.

dritani176 August 14th, 2007 05:29PM  

Try to replace the term "mother" with "the government" and everything will come clear to you.

tatbrat June 23rd, 2008 01:27AM  

A relationship between a man and his controlling mother.

PAJOFLOYD July 27th, 2008 05:06PM  

You guys should have listened more than once at The Wall (CD and Movie). If you do so, most of The Wall lyrics will come clear to you...
The Wall is mostly Waters' biography...living his childhood without his father (which died at War), her Mom has been his only Family symbol for him. In the movie, you clearly see that in "Mother", Pink (Water) is missing his mom as hell, too much drugs, too much loneliness, he is lost in thoughts and cries out what he might to with his WALL he's building...Overall, this song is all about Pink asking what he might do than.. "Mother should I build the Wall??"

anonymous August 12th, 2008 08:48PM  

This song is a piece from the album The Wall, which is a rock opera about the alienation every person experiences in their life. This particular song is about the main character Pink, whose father died in WW2, leading to his mother being too over protective for his own good. She essentially starts the building of the wall in his life, which separates him from his emotions and the outside world.

anonymous November 13th, 2008 08:52PM  

Good interpretation. The truth is Roger Waters dad died in war. Not just a regular person.

anonymous January 9th, 2009 11:36AM  

I think this song is just about "another brick in the wall". And that brick is the high protection by the mother. She handles her child like it was still a baby or something.