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.

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.