The Wall is a metaphor for a man who has built psychological barriers to the cruel world because of events from his life. One of the causes for him to close himself off was an overbearing and overprotective mother. The line "...of course Mamma's gonna help build the wall" refers to her part in his mental break with the world. The last line "Mother did it need to be so high" is him realizing how much she helped in building the wall.
@@joni99. heard it 10,000 times. I know the original meaning but music, lyrics, poems, books are all up for interpretation. The wall can be a metaphor for a dozen different things.
The loss of his father, his overprotective mother, his marital troubles, the pressures of touring..." All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall..."
Yeah, I would love to see him play the movie for us on Patreon. I think I only saw it once, years ago, but don't remember much of it. I must have had a quaalude and a couple of beers when I watched it.
It's impossible to interpret these songs in isolation, they are but chapters of a whole. The basic story is of a dysfunctional guy who has built a metaphorical wall around his emotional self and it's kind of making him lose his mind, That's as nutshelly as I can get :)
Exactly! Listened to in song order (and especially watching the movie) - it makes WAY more sense than just random songs here and there for new listeners- ✌️
I disagree with you Jonny. Listening to this track on its own lets the listener correlate these incredibly written lyrics with their own life experiences, as they unfold into a bitter tale of an overbearing mother. Listening to the album in its entirety... next level.
"Wish You Were Here" makes me teary eyed every time I hear it. Brings up powerful memories of those who are no longer in our lives. Maybe you've already reviewed it? A short and simple classic.
I could see you beginning to interprate the words........ It's a really sad song about an overbearing, overprotective mother who built the wall around her son so high he couldn't get over it......... Being a mother it breaks my heart. 💔
Also, that is not Dave Mason playing drums, but the late and great Jeff Porcaro from TOTO. I'm not 100% sure about this but I'm pretty sure that it's because Dave couldn't play in these signatures.
The ending “mother did it need to be so high” is referring to the “wall” she built around him, which was referenced to 2 times before in the song. Early on he asks his mom “mother should I build a wall” to keep him safe from the cruel world out there. Next the line “of course mother will help build a wall” is because like you said the mom doesn’t want the child to grow and leave her... so the end “ mother did it need to be so high” is him asking his mom... did the wall you built need to be so high? As in did you really need to shelter me to that extreme extent?
The first time I saw the movie, I was 20, in the hospital on a morphine drip due to a car accident. My mom had just left for the night before the movie started, and it got to this song and man, it just made me cry. There I was alone in a hospital bed, broken leg, my car (89 Mustang) was trashed, and I missed my mom. There's my G.F.S. (Good F'ing Story) for the night.
Roger Waters recently (2020) put out a quarantine version of this song "Mother" as well as other songs definitely check his channel out. Btw he is singing here at the beginning than Dave and him alternate after. I enjoy your Floyd reactions I think over time you will see the deference between Roger and Dave and why pink floyd is the way they are even to this day.
Love this album bought it right after it came out and I have listened to it hundreds of times over the almost 41 years. Dude your gonna have to listen to the entire album at some point, it really is a treasure...♡
I've seen a couple of other reaction channels follow the entire album ......from start to finish......in 3 separate parts. I wish he would do that. The problem with trying to listen to the individual tracks (....as posted on TH-cam...)....is that folks miss out on those magical segues & transitions between each song. The day this album was released, I got off work & ran directly to the record store. Got home, fired up a bowl & strapped on the headphones. What a ride.
Rick Albee Love it! Another one: Lime & limpid green, a second scene now fight between the blue you once knew. Floating down the sound resounds around the icy waters underground...
Sinead O’Connor did a cool version of this one at the ‘The Wall’ concert in Berlin. Back up singers were Rick Danko and Levon Helm, and Garth Hudson (all from The Band) on accordion. 👍👍👍💖
I loved your reaction, J.. Pink Floyd did a movie-length video for the entire album. Wouldn't it be a treat if you could make an event where you reviewed that! I hope you get to watch it either way. It's a landmark experience ❤️❤️❤️
no jayvee is 100% right . his mother made him go nuts with her possession of him . he decides he wants to build a wall around him so the outside cant get to him , mother agrees n says she'll help him , she did already . now he's wondering why he's so isolated . does it need to be so high . mother would like it higher so noone can get her baby . jayvee is very open minded and read that perfectly , well done jayvee
You need to listen to the whole album in order, the way one song flows into the next is just amazing both lyrically and musically. It takes you on a roller coaster of emotions - one of my all time favs.
You really need to put the headphones on and listen to the whole album, I remeber doing just that back in "79". This was definitely the best album that was put out that year. (my opinion) The album is a story and you won't get the full picture unless you sit down and listen to these albums. With headphones
hit the nail on the head jayvee, perfect interpretation , this is what makes him build a wall , and naturally mother wants to help him , and make it really high ....
I love this whole album...the movie for this album came out when I was in high school I think and my Mom and I planned on going for a long while. She drove us to the nearest large city about an hour away which was big because she didn't really drive outside our small town. She rented a motel room for us and we went....we were going to see the movie as many times as we could before returning home. Well. The movie was not what we thought, it was about war and lots of ugly things, we saw it only once. I would love to see it now because it pertained to a whole lot of stuff I didn't know about as a kid. If you ever get the chance to see the movie do. I think the line about, "Mother, did it have to be so high?" meant did you have to put so many bricks in the wall and protect me from everything? Take some time alone, and listen to this whole album in order and watch the videos, it's wonderful. Another Brick in the Wall was about teachers and how they tortured the kids and held them back. Young Pink got made fun of for writing poetry which if you listen to it when the teacher reads it is the lines of one of their songs. Comfortably Numb is when he becomes famous and is trashed right before a concert, they have to give him something to get him up and out...it's all good.
Years ago after the bars closed and we all went to some house for an "after hours party"any PINK FLOYD tune always played on the turntable. Also " In the "Memory of Elizabeth Reed" by The Allman Bros.Then before you knew it the morning sun was peeking thru the drapes of a basement window. And for anyone who cares "Pink Floyd" got their name from 2 blues musicians named PINK ANDERSON & FLOYD COUNCIL.
One of my favourite songs from The Wall. I like how on The Wall (and to some extent on the previous album, Animals) they had become better at deliberately utilizing Roger's and David's different singing voices for effect (Roger's range is more in the tenor range while David's is more in the baritone range, in addition to them having distinctively different voices of course), like in this song where Roger sings the part of the main character with David responding as the mother. Other great examples of this utilization to great effect on The Wall is Comfortably Numb where Roger sings the part of the doctor with David responding as the main character, or in Hey You where David sings the more calm beginning of the song while Roger comes in with his intense angst towards the end
these reactions take me back 40 years and make me remember what it was like when I first started listening, and Thank GOD I had so many years to listen to them over and over and over,, it will never grow old. and yes, sometimes i still get surprised as every once in a while a new message will come out of a song. The message is each segment of the protective bubbles from mothers love was another brick in the wall, and did the wall need to be so high.
Jayvee sir tnx for doing pink floyd again, jst scrolled on you tube and saw your 3 pf new reactions, wow, its a good day today here in the philippines, tnx
The line "mother used to wait up for me" ..I used to wait up for my two sons when they went into the city centre to the clubs as I couldn't sleep until I knew they were safe. When they came home ,they used to say "aw did you wait up for us mum" but I used to make out I had just fallen asleep on the sofa as I didn't want them to think I was being overprotective and spoil their night out. Very thought provoking song...still think I'm a good mom though !
Bruh! I’m so glad I found your videos. It’s unbelievable entertaining to watch reactions to my fav tunes - and it’s even better when the person reacting can explain what’s great about the songs (probably) better than I can. Keep doing what you’re doing my brother. The capacity to realise the literary genius in pieces like this from 40 years ago is rare even amongst that grew up with it... Where is the rest of your content!? “Mother did it need to be so high?” Is a reference to them wall’ that she built around him as a child. ;)
Please please please check out David Gilmours Into the blue Live in Gdańsk. If you want to feel his music make you cry then this is the one. I have never heard anyone tame their guitar the way Gilmour does, he is a legend. Please do this one as I would love to see your reaction to it. Peace 👍
WOW! This sounds to me like a severe Mother, son co-dependent relationship. He’s a man now and struggles to break free from mom. He wants too but doesn’t want to break her heart. So he stays. He blames her though and the wall represents the barrier between the world and he and his mom. Jmo Thanks for this. 👍 Never heard before.
Roger Water is a poet and every song means something different to everyone. I first heard this album about 45 years ago. The meanings of the lyrics change as your life changes. Poetry baby.
Song is about an over protective mother sheltering her son too much.. she built a wall around him. Last line he says “mother did it need to be so high” referring to the wall she built..
I never really listen to the words of a lot of these songs until now. Rehearing them & listening to your interpretation makes me understand them better. When I heard these songs back in the day .. well, let's just say I was pretty much the last line of this song.
Listen to it 500 times and you'll change your mind about what it's about several times. Most of the time you don't care what it's about, because the song is so beautiful. Focus on how the song makes you feel, not what you think it's about...
👌 Perfect You nailed it except for the ending, "mother did it need to be so hi" refers to the hight of the wall he's been inclosed in...... Heavy heavy song...... If you want to understand the wall fully you need to watch the film "the wall" it helps 👍
one thing i've learned since listening to pink floyd since '92,..you don't have to over analyze the lyrics. they mean different things to different people,depending on what you are going through in life personally. another great reaction vid! 😎
Pink Floyd The Wall....great album and movie 🔥. Introduced to the album in late 70s by a friend at her house for a pool party. Never heard anything like it and fell in deep adoration for it's concepts 💗
As has already been stated, PLEASE watch the movie, Pink Floyd The Wall. All of the great songs from the album will make so much more sense once you've seen them in context of the entire story.
The Wall is a metaphor for a man who has built psychological barriers to the cruel world because of events from his life.
One of the causes for him to close himself off was an overbearing and overprotective mother. The line "...of course Mamma's gonna help build the wall"
refers to her part in his mental break with the world. The last line "Mother did it need to be so high" is him realizing how much she helped in building the wall.
Well said !
Is it a about Sid Barrett? Reminds me of my mother, only I was unaware there was a wall as it was too high to appreciate from my level.
The wall can be many things. Stop telling people how to think
@@MustObeyTheRules listen again to the song :)
@@joni99. heard it 10,000 times. I know the original meaning but music, lyrics, poems, books are all up for interpretation. The wall can be a metaphor for a dozen different things.
The loss of his father, his overprotective mother, his marital troubles, the pressures of touring..." All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall..."
hit like if you'd want to watch him react to watching The Wall movie! ;)
Yeah, I would love to see him play the movie for us on Patreon. I think I only saw it once, years ago, but don't remember much of it. I must have had a quaalude and a couple of beers when I watched it.
I wish I voted 👍 MANY, MANY times!
*could not voted...🙄 stupid autoINcorrect!!
@@kimberlinibambini1988 It's okay, I gave an extra thumbs up to all.
Yes, PLEASE
Gilmour's solo makes the hair on my arms stand up every time.
Find the video live from the Wall tour 1980 or 81. Fantastic. There's an extended solo about three times as long.
Gilmour is one of the most lauded guitarists in rock, and for my money he's still underrated.
Yea it wasn’t his greatest solo but D. Gilmour knows how to write a solo to match the song perfectly
Every Gilmour solo is hair raising!
Oh yes....🙌
A beautiful depiction of how insecurities are passed on in families/the culture.
His mother's sheltering and overbearing becomes another brick in his wall. In the end he asked her, 'mother did it need to be so high' ?
Glad you fixed that 😉
@@DMB088 ha!! damn voice text.
Just like the 90s hovering parents 😓
Pink floyd is just masterclass on how to touch the audience, more please everything from the concert PULSE is fire.
I prefer the Wall tour live 1980. Pulse is good but it's really missing Roger.
I was told this has to do with an overbearing mom. She wants to protect him and keeps him full of fear. So they build the wall.
It's impossible to interpret these songs in isolation, they are but chapters of a whole. The basic story is of a dysfunctional guy who has built a metaphorical wall around his emotional self and it's kind of making him lose his mind, That's as nutshelly as I can get :)
Well nutshelled.
Everybody: whaaaatttt????
Johnny: explains why nuts have shells.
Exactly! Listened to in song order (and especially watching the movie) - it makes WAY more sense than just random songs here and there for new listeners- ✌️
Kimberlini Bambini I sent him the dvd, when he sees it, he will know.
I disagree with you Jonny.
Listening to this track on its own lets the listener correlate these incredibly written lyrics with their own life experiences, as they unfold into a bitter tale of an overbearing mother.
Listening to the album in its entirety... next level.
Listening to the album in order brings much more context to each track.
Nobody can make a guitar sing like David Gilmour.
So true! 💖💖👍👍
Steve Rothery of Marillion have the same style. Every note and tone gives chills.
Dude, you're spoiling us :) I love watching you react to Pink Floyd, your joy in the music is so intense. Love it!
Mother does it have to be so high is referring to the wall
A mother unhealthily controlling her child...
I listened to this song for 20 years before realizing that the last line was talking about the wall she was creating for him
So deep....💔😭
"Wish You Were Here" makes me teary eyed every time I hear it. Brings up powerful memories of those who are no longer in our lives. Maybe you've already reviewed it? A short and simple classic.
I did already checkout my Pink Floyd playlist
@@JayveeTV Here's Roger's recent quarantine ZOOM-style version of the song....'Mother'. th-cam.com/video/9lCFaSL9aSE/w-d-xo.html
@@JayveeTV Thanks, I'll do that. Love your work! You bring a smile in this mixed up time.💙
Wish you were here and Mother are my all time favourite Floyd tracks
Both so poignant
Oh oh... excellent choice. Beautiful song thanks.
Pink Floyd’s music is both incredibly beautiful AND deeply disturbing. Sometimes it’s too much for me.
That’s a great way to put it. Disturbing, beautiful, and realistic which is why it hits hard.
Yes you are right
I could see you beginning to interprate the words........ It's a really sad song about an overbearing, overprotective mother who built the wall around her son so high he couldn't get over it......... Being a mother it breaks my heart. 💔
Sort of. The wall is a metaphor for alienation. She helped Build That Wall.
This Dave Gilmour fella is a pretty good guitar player.
Him SRV and Clapton are legends to me.
Virtuoso is the term I use.
@@mattbecham8795 His vibrato is among the best around.
FUN FACT: Mother is notable for its varied time signatures, from 5/8 to 9/8. The song is mostly sung in G Major.
You never cease to amaze me! 😂👍👍💖
Turd Ferguson Thanks 😎
Mason’s masterful work, probably his best engineered and punchy snare ever, marvelous
Also, that is not Dave Mason playing drums, but the late and great Jeff Porcaro from TOTO. I'm not 100% sure about this but I'm pretty sure that it's because Dave couldn't play in these signatures.
Love this... honestly, I had never heard this song. Very haunting...😔
The ending “mother did it need to be so high” is referring to the “wall” she built around him, which was referenced to 2 times before in the song. Early on he asks his mom “mother should I build a wall” to keep him safe from the cruel world out there. Next the line “of course mother will help build a wall” is because like you said the mom doesn’t want the child to grow and leave her... so the end “ mother did it need to be so high” is him asking his mom... did the wall you built need to be so high? As in did you really need to shelter me to that extreme extent?
Thank You...Thank You! One of my all time favorites, What an Awesome Saturday!!
I recommend watching The Wall the movie.
The first time I saw the movie, I was 20, in the hospital on a morphine drip due to a car accident. My mom had just left for the night before the movie started, and it got to this song and man, it just made me cry. There I was alone in a hospital bed, broken leg, my car (89 Mustang) was trashed, and I missed my mom.
There's my G.F.S. (Good F'ing Story) for the night.
Yes, highly recommend!!✌️
The line is...”Mother, did IT need to be so high?”...meaning the wall. Love your thought process tho. Keep rockin!
Roger Waters recently (2020) put out a quarantine version of this song "Mother" as well as other songs definitely check his channel out. Btw he is singing here at the beginning than Dave and him alternate after. I enjoy your Floyd reactions I think over time you will see the deference between Roger and Dave and why pink floyd is the way they are even to this day.
Yep it’s a fantastic version Jess and Holly are amazing
Awe man yes!!! Have you heard the quarantined version of two suns in the sunset? The two young ladies are simply angels?
David Breeden sure have my friend I couldn’t agree more 👍
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One of the most beautifully constructed songs I've ever heard. Pink Floyd is my favorite band. Songs like this is why.
Love this album bought it right after it came out and I have listened to it hundreds of times over the almost 41 years. Dude your gonna have to listen to the entire album at some point, it really is a treasure...♡
It's not saying his mother was on drugs. It says "Mother did it need to be so high" meaning did she need to install so many fears into him.
Yes. You are correct in your description of the mother.
I've seen a couple of other reaction channels follow the entire album ......from start to finish......in 3 separate parts. I wish he would do that. The problem with trying to listen to the individual tracks (....as posted on TH-cam...)....is that folks miss out on those magical segues & transitions between each song. The day this album was released, I got off work & ran directly to the record store. Got home, fired up a bowl & strapped on the headphones. What a ride.
Nobody does it like Floyd they say that they are a rock band in my opinion they are a class unto themselves ✌️♥️
'Interstellar Overdrive' is a remarkable tune for the era it was recorded. On their debut album, with Syd Barrett.
Rick Albee Love it!
Another one: Lime & limpid green, a second scene now fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down the sound resounds around the icy waters underground...
@@susanmaggiora4800 Yes Astronomy Domine! 🤘
The Floyd rabbit hole is as deep as their music. 👍😎
Sinead O’Connor did a cool version of this one at the ‘The Wall’ concert in Berlin. Back up singers were Rick Danko and Levon Helm, and Garth Hudson (all from The Band) on accordion. 👍👍👍💖
😶🙄🤢🤮
I loved your reaction, J..
Pink Floyd did a movie-length video for the entire album.
Wouldn't it be a treat if you could make an event where you reviewed that! I hope you get to watch it either way. It's a landmark experience ❤️❤️❤️
No, “does it need to be so high?” Is about the wall.
no jayvee is 100% right . his mother made him go nuts with her possession of him . he decides he wants to build a wall around him so the outside cant get to him , mother agrees n says she'll help him , she did already . now he's wondering why he's so isolated . does it need to be so high . mother would like it higher so noone can get her baby . jayvee is very open minded and read that perfectly , well done jayvee
your comments right tho . the high part is the wall .
@@durv13 Yes, I was assuming too much. All of us old Pink Floyd fans already know what the Wall is.
@@nancycunningham4225 that we do lol . :-)
I forgot how good this was! I love your reactions. You experience music!
This my favorite pink Floyd song
Great album and one of the greatest concert movies/rock operas out there. Bob Geldorf was really great in it.
It's a masterpiece!
Hi from the UK , so impressive, WOW WOW WOW 🤔🤔🤔😥😥😥 .
Saw Pink Floyd at Webley (London) - "The Wall" concert. Best day of my life.
You need to listen to the whole album in order, the way one song flows into the next is just amazing both lyrically and musically. It takes you on a roller coaster of emotions - one of my all time favs.
Omg I'm so glad you played this song it's bone chilling and beautifully amasing!
The wall was too high as you can see
Nice reference
The Wall is one of my favorite albums of theirs. And this song is one of the reasons why!!
PINK FLOYD ALWAYS HAD A HECK OF A STORY IN THERE SONGS.
Ah another great Pink Floyd classic! They get into your HEAD! 💙
An often overlooked great song.
Basically the whole album Pink Floyd the wall is one continuous song . It has various chapters and it’s a emotional roller coaster
The Wall is a novel album and the movie is a masterpiece you must watch for the full feel of the songs meanings. ✌🏽
You really need to put the headphones on and listen to the whole album, I remeber doing just that back in "79". This was definitely the best album that was put out that year. (my opinion) The album is a story and you won't get the full picture unless you sit down and listen to these albums. With headphones
hit the nail on the head jayvee, perfect interpretation , this is what makes him build a wall , and naturally mother wants to help him , and make it really high ....
His Father Died in his Childhood , Mom was always overprotecting him.
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I love this whole album...the movie for this album came out when I was in high school I think and my Mom and I planned on going for a long while. She drove us to the nearest large city about an hour away which was big because she didn't really drive outside our small town. She rented a motel room for us and we went....we were going to see the movie as many times as we could before returning home. Well. The movie was not what we thought, it was about war and lots of ugly things, we saw it only once. I would love to see it now because it pertained to a whole lot of stuff I didn't know about as a kid. If you ever get the chance to see the movie do.
I think the line about, "Mother, did it have to be so high?" meant did you have to put so many bricks in the wall and protect me from everything?
Take some time alone, and listen to this whole album in order and watch the videos, it's wonderful. Another Brick in the Wall was about teachers and how they tortured the kids and held them back. Young Pink got made fun of for writing poetry which if you listen to it when the teacher reads it is the lines of one of their songs. Comfortably Numb is when he becomes famous and is trashed right before a concert, they have to give him something to get him up and out...it's all good.
Years ago after the bars closed and we all went to some house for an "after hours party"any PINK FLOYD tune always played on the turntable. Also " In the "Memory of Elizabeth Reed" by The Allman Bros.Then before you knew it the morning sun was peeking thru the drapes of a basement window.
And for anyone who cares "Pink Floyd" got their name from 2 blues musicians named PINK ANDERSON & FLOYD COUNCIL.
I had to go back and watch this again ❤️
One of my favourite songs from The Wall. I like how on The Wall (and to some extent on the previous album, Animals) they had become better at deliberately utilizing Roger's and David's different singing voices for effect (Roger's range is more in the tenor range while David's is more in the baritone range, in addition to them having distinctively different voices of course), like in this song where Roger sings the part of the main character with David responding as the mother. Other great examples of this utilization to great effect on The Wall is Comfortably Numb where Roger sings the part of the doctor with David responding as the main character, or in Hey You where David sings the more calm beginning of the song while Roger comes in with his intense angst towards the end
these reactions take me back 40 years and make me remember what it was like when I first started listening, and Thank GOD I had so many years to listen to them over and over and over,, it will never grow old. and yes, sometimes i still get surprised as every once in a while a new message will come out of a song.
The message is each segment of the protective bubbles from mothers love was another brick in the wall, and did the wall need to be so high.
This album needs to be listened to from beginning to end to really experience it. That’s what makes Pink Floyd great.
The movie The Wall is one of the great classics of all time! It is a rock opera like Tommy! But better!
One of their best songs off of their best album in my opinion. You should react to the whole album!!
Jayvee sir tnx for doing pink floyd again, jst scrolled on you tube and saw your 3 pf new reactions, wow, its a good day today here in the philippines, tnx
The line "mother used to wait up for me" ..I used to wait up for my two sons when they went into the city centre to the clubs as I couldn't sleep until I knew they were safe. When they came home ,they used to say "aw did you wait up for us mum" but I used to make out I had just fallen asleep on the sofa as I didn't want them to think I was being overprotective and spoil their night out. Very thought provoking song...still think I'm a good mom though !
Bruh! I’m so glad I found your videos.
It’s unbelievable entertaining to watch reactions to my fav tunes - and it’s even better when the person reacting can explain what’s great about the songs (probably) better than I can.
Keep doing what you’re doing my brother. The capacity to realise the literary genius in pieces like this from 40 years ago is rare even amongst that grew up with it...
Where is the rest of your content!?
“Mother did it need to be so high?” Is a reference to them wall’ that she built around him as a child. ;)
I love seeing a guy with a senior shirt on for 2020 and listening to Floyd.
I feel like The Wall
Could represent my entire childhood/teen years. It took 25 yrs to break down my wall.. its super relatable. And beautiful 🖤
Watch the movie. It is a masterpiece.
Listen to the song "the day the tigers broke free". It is about Roger Waters father, which is the basis for the whole album of "The Wall".
i think high meant unreachable or emotionally distant
Well done bro your analogy of this song is spot on you nailed it👍
Please please please check out David Gilmours Into the blue Live in Gdańsk. If you want to feel his music make you cry then this is the one. I have never heard anyone tame their guitar the way Gilmour does, he is a legend. Please do this one as I would love to see your reaction to it. Peace 👍
Mother did it need to be so high is referring to the restrictions and ultimately the Wall.
WOW! This sounds to me like a severe Mother, son co-dependent relationship. He’s a man now and struggles to break free from mom. He wants too but doesn’t want to break her heart. So he stays. He blames her though and the wall represents the barrier between the world and he and his mom. Jmo Thanks for this. 👍 Never heard before.
I second watching the wall movie!!!! It makes the album make sense as a whole. It's amazing
Roger Water is a poet and every song means something different to everyone. I first heard this album about 45 years ago. The meanings of the lyrics change as your life changes. Poetry baby.
Song is about an over protective mother sheltering her son too much.. she built a wall around him. Last line he says “mother did it need to be so high” referring to the wall she built..
What a perfect analysis! I love your reviews!
Jayvee....😭😭😭😭😭😭 I've loved this double album since it came out in 1980.
When he says "Mother, did it need to be so high". He's talking about the wall, he's built up around him. ✌
I never really listen to the words of a lot of these songs until now. Rehearing them & listening to your interpretation makes me understand them better. When I heard these songs back in the day .. well, let's just say I was pretty much the last line of this song.
Listening to Pink Floyd albums a track at a time is missing the whole point really.
They are works that need to flow.
Glad you enjoyed it.
As with many albums at the time they had a theme. I never listen to a single song especially Pink Floyd but the whole work of art.
"High" is how high the Wall is. Love the understanding of the rest though - nice one. 👍👍
Listen to it 500 times and you'll change your mind about what it's about several times. Most of the time you don't care what it's about, because the song is so beautiful. Focus on how the song makes you feel, not what you think it's about...
👌 Perfect
You nailed it except for the ending, "mother did it need to be so hi" refers to the hight of the wall he's been inclosed in...... Heavy heavy song...... If you want to understand the wall fully you need to watch the film "the wall" it helps 👍
Love Pink's guitars!
BTW, for contrast, you could cover Paul Simon's Loves Me Like A Rock. Kinda similar in some ways, but a totally different tone.
Mother did it need to be so high, is referring to the Wall she helped build around him.
Love your stuff buddy... respect from UK
I take the last line to mean 'did the wall need to be so high'. The wall we built protected me but at what cost?
one thing i've learned since listening to pink floyd since '92,..you don't have to over analyze the lyrics. they mean different things to different people,depending on what you are going through in life personally. another great reaction vid! 😎
Pink Floyd The Wall....great album and movie 🔥. Introduced to the album in late 70s by a friend at her house for a pool party. Never heard anything like it and fell in deep adoration for it's concepts 💗
This song made me cry.
hey! Love the CCR and Bob Marley in the background !
My favourite track off this album
Very good insight into the Smother Mother.
enjoyed your reaction bro keepit flowin
Great insight, his mother loves him so much and is very overprotective, she is one of the reasons why metaphorically he builds a wall around himself
Great reaction. You were feeling it. 👌
As has already been stated, PLEASE watch the movie, Pink Floyd The Wall. All of the great songs from the album will make so much more sense once you've seen them in context of the entire story.
You should do a reaction to entire movie. This song is particularly powerful in the film when you see the main character "Pink's" life in context.
This song is the song that makes everything about the Wall.