Lyrics for Bring The Boys Back Home as interpreted by Demau Senae

Bring The Boys Back Home Lyrics
Bring the boys back home
Bring the boys back home
Don't leave the children on their own
Bring the boys back home

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Ashlyn
03-11-2003

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Bring the boys back home from war. Don't make their children fatherless. Follow the story..

This is another that can't stand out on it's own..

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CoNjOutsidersLsSm
03-14-2003

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about Pow's, Mia's.......

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kornchild60
07-04-2004

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yea this songs pretty simple to understand...but pretty wierd in the wall (movie) when the people are singing it. i dunno...just odd

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zBlade
10-25-2004

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It's also tied in with "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)".

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backupdork
02-14-2005

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the scene with this song is one of my favorites from the movie.

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werumm
07-30-2005

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What's so odd about it kornchild? Pink Floyd did a lot of stuff that was a little out of the ordinary- that's what makes them so great..and the fact the song that is just a chorus and still sounds really, really inspiring is a credit to them.

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anycolouryoulike
08-22-2005

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Good song, but it truly can't hold much meaning by itself. But when put into context with the rest of The Wall, it makes perfect sense and it fits.

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girfanman
01-09-2006

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According to Roger this song is about not letting anything (including war) become so important that you forget about what's really important to you. I would have thought it was about bringing people back from the war, but Roger said in an interview that that's what it's about. I guess it's open to interpratation anyway, though. ^_^

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werumm
02-26-2006

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Well, Roger is wrong..it's about bringing the boys back home. Hence the lyric "bring the boys back home"

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Abq_phys
03-01-2006

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It's more than literal, werumm. girfanman is right, this song is about the importance of family, society, relationships. He hates the war because it destroys these things needlessly, resulting in people creating walls around themselves. Not just wars, but also meaningless jobs, etc.

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werumm
03-04-2006

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^^ Wrong. You are talking the song and adding the context of the entire album to your opinion. This is just ONE song, and this ONE song is a plea to BRING THE BOYS BACK HOME..does that make sense? CAnt you really see how silly your over analysis sounds when there are only 4 lines to the entire song, 3 of which are identical?

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bowzer1110
03-12-2006

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Bring the men back to their familys. Their death waste perfectly good ordinary lives. Listen to "When the Tigers Broke Free" for a better understanding

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Abq_phys
03-13-2006

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Exerpt from a 1979 Roger Waters interview:

Waters: "...and that snaps him back to then and it precedes, what is for me anyway, is the central song on the whole album 'Bring the Boys Back Home' "

Interviewer (T. Vance): "Why?"

Waters: "Well, because it's partly about not letting people go off and be killed in wars, but it's also partly about not allowing rock and roll, or making cars or selling soap or getting involved in biological research or anything that anybody might do, not letting that become such an important and "jolly boys game" that it becomes more important than friends, wives, children, other people."

This is not my interpretation of the song, but Waters'.

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Abq_phys
03-13-2006

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why the hell can't we edit our posts? Anyways, I don't think a literal interpretation of this song is wrong, it's just that the authors intended for this song to say more than what is at the surface.

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werumm
03-16-2006

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welllllllll...ok. I guess you could argue that this is a universal call from all those people, being how Water's nor Gilmore sing it, rather the families, wives, children etc. BUT, lyric-wise I don't see how you can read all that into it. Maybe if you saw the video or heard the song, thro the voices of those people..you might realize the significance..
Well at least we can all agree that the song is awesome.

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girfanman
04-10-2006

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That it is, werumm. :)

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Grind838
06-04-2006

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"Wrong! Do it again!"
"Time to go!" (Knock knock knock knock)
"Are you feeling okay?"
"There's a man answering but he keeps hanging up!"
"Is there anybody out there?"

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bassturd75
10-02-2006

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I heard there were these boys who Waters knew who had a home where children were left outside, so Waters got the rest of Pink Floyd together and protested in front of the house chanting "Bring the boys back home.

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crazydiamond1to9
03-16-2007

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I heard he's a giant chicken!

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randyman28
08-10-2009

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It all has to do with the wall album story, with pink losing his father.

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