We don't need no education
We don't 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 don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave those kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone!
All in all you're 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 bike sheds, stand still laddy!"



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"Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" as written by Roger Waters

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    General Comment:I haven't read through every one of the 200-plus comments here, but wondered if anyone had noticed the blatant anti-feminine tone of the song, but more, the movie "The Wall." It's been decades since i saw it, and all i can remember is my disappointment at how the women--teachers, mothers--were made to represent conformity, civilization, tyranny; while the poor little boys just want to play and be wild and crazy, these big mean mommies are trying to make them behave.
    Of course we all know growing up and living in society is a compromise, and different people are comfortable with different levels of freedom and of responsibility. You can look at having to adjust to rules of social living (don't steal; share your toys; clean up after yourself; don't hit others; be nice to the doggie; make yourself presentable; eat the nutritious stuff before the junk; don't play with your wee-wee in public; etc.) as oppressive to the spirit, but then again, you can see their value in keeping a civil and healthy society. Either way, it happens, whether a government, a mob (the tribe), the family, the church, is doing it: they raise us to behave a certain way, especially in public.
    To associate the objectionable aspects of being educated, civilized, etc., with the feminine principle is childish and misogynistic.
    Seriously--i love Pink Floyd's music, but i remember when i saw that movie, thinking, "What a bunch of knuckleheads--grow up and forgive your mummies for raising you. She didn't do so badly, now did she?
    Oh well nowadays they'll just give the kids some ADHD medication--the mommies, the daddies, and the doctors seem to agree. Now there's a real brick wall--creating little addicted consumers out of normal, energetic, cloistered children! I suppose there's a song about that, or there ought to be. But hopefully the "drug-them-down" force isn't characterized as a woman.
    Flagged laurajion March 12, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:People ! leave our thought alone
    Flag Yazardshiron October 29, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:The lyrics posted here are actually ABITW, Part I.
    Flag yada3on May 11, 2012   Link
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    My Opinion:Basically it means the kids would love to give the teachers a brick to the balls.
    Flagged chorto5on May 04, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This isn't part two...
    Flag Crane42on March 13, 2012   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Am I the only one who's seeing Part 1 lyrics here instead of part 2? It's weirding me out.
    Flag EnduringChillon January 29, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:i think we should place ourselves in the time and situation where this song was written...this song is definietly about the school system that this guys went through
    Flag UNIVERSALmindon August 21, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:If you've seen the movie, where the headmaster takes his little back book with his poems in a stars to read it, derisively mockingly, outloud for the class. and says "the boy thinks he's a poet!", completely irrational.

    again to the whole album; the first part (disc 1) is why Roger decided to enclose himself in a "floydian wall", and the second part (Disc 2) is what he did inside it and how he got out.
    Flag Bachion January 23, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:NonDairy's pretty much spot on with his or her analysis. The only quibble I have is with that last sentence - the funky disco beat was co-producer Bob Ezrin's idea, the song was originally a pretty gloomy piece of music. Roger Waters was also dead-set against releasing it as a single (Floyd hadn't released a UK single since 1968), it was only when they added the beat and the kids' singing that he saw the pound signs.
    Flagged richeyeon October 11, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:The song's obviously about the school system in England at the time the writer was experiencing it.
    The "We don't need no education/thought control" speaks for itself pretty much, about how strict and controlling the system was, trying to teach the children to think a certain way.

    "Another brick in the wall" refers to a mental/emotional wall, with difficult experiences helping to create a wall around the person, making them cut off from the world, numb and unfeeling.

    Great song.
    Flag NimEdelweisson October 07, 2010   Link

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