Lyrics for Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) as interpreted by kevin

Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) Lyrics
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

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Scabster
12-13-2001

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I think that this song is actually a strong satire of a utopian society. If you've ever read George Orwell's book "1984" than this would be more clear. The idea that Orwell warns about in his book is that by trying to create a "better" and "more perfect" society that is agreable to everyone, all that has really been done is stripped people of free thought, free will, and basically all humanistic expression whatsoever.

The song seems at first to just say "We don't need no education" as if it's just some rebelious kid who doesn't want to go to school. But the school depicted in this song is a very restricting and controlling force. The "education" described in the song really seems to be thought control, where certain concepts are methodolically being imprinted in the minds of the students. Even the Scottish men yelling at the kids in the end, who seem to be some kind of supervisors and enforcers, are keeping them all in-line like prison guards.

Just my thoughts, anyone read "1984" that thinks the same?

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Ferthuko
01-25-2002

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I think the entire Wall album is autobiographical (Roger Waters) or could even be about Sid Barrett. Obviously Waters had much disdain for his teachers, and probably blamed them for much of the emotional problems he (or Barett??) had later in life.

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piper
02-09-2002

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the words are directed to all the people and things that have stood in his way of being who he is, a real person that sees through their "wall". and no matter how much authority or importance a person holds, he is saying they are all the same, just another part(brick) of what stands between the real people and their real society. the wall is the group of ppl, government, whoever that stops you from doing what you want


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brickinthewall86
02-15-2002

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"we don't need no education...."
there's a double negative there! are they just using incorrect english to make a point, or are they really saying that only through knowledge (transposing DON'T need NO education to its opposite) can we triumph over the government and other authoritative figures that stand between us and our ideal life?


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HubCap1438
04-23-2002

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i like what scabster said. if you ever read the time machine, its kinda like that.

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Halo Ape
04-30-2002

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it's not like it either..."Animals" was the Orwellian piece. "The Wall" is a rock opera that fuses the personalities of Syd Barret and Roger Waters into this psychologically damaged pop star who goes all neo-Nazi like Bowie...it's psychological rock opera, a commentary on the dehumanizing nature of entertainment, and a snide swipe at rock and roll fans in general (hence Pink's abuse of his audience - Roger had an idea that rock audiences LIKED being abused and grew to hate arena shows in the years prior to The Wall)

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honestyormystery
05-01-2002

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like the song, its really good, i agree w. scabster.....i think. and floyd is cool (some ppl know what i'm talkin bout)

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rocktheearth
05-03-2002

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basically, it just means that children should not be indoctrinated.

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sumo
05-05-2002

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i dont need no edumacation...

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Neon_Green_Moon
05-17-2002

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the anthem for every person who thinks utopia cannot happen.

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HubCap1438
05-21-2002

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the great thing about pink floyd songs is that they can be interpreted so many different ways. psychologists should use their songs instead of inkblots.

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liddle_mizz_punk
05-22-2002

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We played this song at our Graduation.


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pink_angel016
05-30-2002

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Scabster, I'd say you've got an excellent idea of what this song is trying to say. A very good way to understand this is to watch "The Wall" during this scene. The children all dressed alike, wearing the very similar masks, walking in the same way, following strict orders made by the teacher, showing no emotions. It's all about communism. We're always being told what to do and how to do them, but never really being told why. "We don't need no education/Wedon't need no thought control"...basically "Don't fuckin' tell us what to do, we're human beings, we can think for ourselves."

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adbinder24
06-03-2002

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Whoever listens to Pink Floyd knows what being relaxed and fell of thought means.....their music really makes u think

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IanoDublin
06-16-2002

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Maybe it agrees with that punk ideology that "knowledge is good, but school is bad".

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IronHalo
06-30-2002

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Marilyn Manson/ Nine Inch Nails do a good cover of this song.

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OzzyGurly
07-06-2002

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Great song...Pink Floyd does it best...

I came up with a whole "brick theory" and I doubt it is what this song is about but still....

I think a "brick" is basically a comformist who goes along with everybody else and follows the trend. Mindless, rectangular red bricks.

Anyways...thas just what I think...

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Shock_Resistor
07-07-2002

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If you watch the Pink Floyd movie "The wall" you will gain a better understanding of what the songs were intended to mean. Bricks respresent defence mechanisms. Each time something opresses, or hurts us it creates "another brick in the wall" making it difficult to reach us..making a person "comfortably numb".

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MSHSRocker
07-08-2002

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I listenined to this song on the radio just a second ago and I noticed that at the beginning of the song there is a sound that sounds like helicopter blades spinning, and a guy is shouting. It may have been a radio version or something wierd, but I was wondering what that guy was saying. I agree with Scabster on this one and Pink Angel016.

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UseYourIllusion
07-11-2002

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this is a very cool protest song about school. Very cool song!

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godofmusic01
07-14-2002

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one confirmed meaning of the song is a kind of battle cry i guess agains the british school system, which is very controlling, very strict and disciplinarian. i mean kids have killed themselves at such young ages as like 5 or 6 because of that school system.

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danfroman
07-23-2002

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Ozzygurly was correct. The book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey deals with the same issues of many songs from the 60's and 70's. The wall is the Establishment or what Kesey called the Combine (in the literal context it is a machine used to harvest grain by cutting or threshing, there are other machines in the book similar to what Shock Resistor mentioned). The Establishment tries to accomplish complete conformity, a great wall where everyone is the same (bricks). Read the book the parallels are endless.

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insomniac161
08-02-2002

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well personally, i dont dis agree with anyones comments, but to me the lyric.. "All in all you're just another brick in the wall." to me means that he is talking about somebody being nobody special, just another joe blow, just another brick in the wall, jsut the same as everyone else. but idk :s

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razz_matazz
08-02-2002

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according to nick mason: 'i still think it's a good record, but often misunderstood. it is not anti-education but it is anti-nasty-shitty-teachers, hopefully less common now.'

it's on the echoes website.

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jaime
08-06-2002

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In my eyes the album is about the walls we build around ourselves to protect us from the outside world . In a way each of these situations helps us build our walls . You get the idea in your head that all adults are like this and at such a young age you begin building walls around yourself .

I dont think it has anything to do with Syd Barret . There are a few of you that seem to think every Pink Floyd song has something to do with Syd Barret for christsake . I wish you could get it through your heads that besides the songs he wrote during the bands early years . The only songs about him appear on "Wish You Were Here" .

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