What does A Great Day for Freedom mean?

Pink Floyd: A Great Day for Freedom Meaning

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A Great Day for Freedom Lyrics

On the day the wall came down
They threw the locks onto the ground
And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived
On the day the wall came down
The Ship of Fools had finally ran aground
Promises lit up the night like paper...

  1. anonymous
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    Oct 7th !⃝

    The trouble with liberation is the people don't realize it. And the officials know this.

    When a communist country fell, while they had the "free market" label, the country wasn't founded on those principles. There would be growing pains, corrupt politicians, and a whole lot of nonsense that just makes capitalism look bad. This song is a beautifully done exploration of that from the perspective of a common man who helped bring the wall down.

  2. anonymous
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    Sep 16th 2023 !⃝

    Just as simple as it is: how great it was when the awful Berlin wall and shitty communists regimes finally fell. But also how rapid changes to the better, even if they are most wished, can be difficult to handle.

    An absolutely wonderful song. I saw Pink Floyd on their world tour 1994, but don¨t remember if they played this one. However, Swedish tribute group P Floyd made a great version of it in fantastic venue Dalhall August 2010.

  3. anonymous
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    Dec 8th 2018 !⃝

    Yea fuck all the bullshit this song is about Roger Waters and him leaving Pink Floyd, basically just handing David Gilmour the entire band and he has the FREEDOM to do what he wants with it.

  4. anonymous
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    Sep 11th 2018 !⃝

    Something about liberty.

  5. kooljohn176
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    Nov 16th 2016 !⃝

    A song that could also be about the Invisible Wall that was even more damaging to the psykey than the visible one coming down that ''The Leftist Ideology'' had build[or created by the illusions of unreality] between us for keeping us divided to be chopped down with our freedoms and moral values of faith. When finally one day It[the wall] was completely destroyed [like the Berlin wall and communism] that vanished from our minds. This made us feeling lighter and freer now to look at ourselves in the eyes of God as ''A Great Day Of Freedom''. In that The Good Triumphed over evil to recongnize the damage and the alienation done to our souls by The Lefty fools that ran amok and grounded the ship that they hyjacked in the first place to still be running amok in the streets and all over the field that are in last place now.

  6. anonymous
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    Jul 25th 2012 !⃝

    It's about the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the changes to the political systems of the countries of eastern Europe.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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