Roger Waters explained this song to Mojo magazine December 2009: Its about the break-up of my first marriage, all that misery and pain and being out on the road when the woman declares over the phone that shes fallen in love with somebody else. Its a complete disaster, especially if youre someone like I was. I was flotsam on the turgid seas of womens power (laughs). Hopeless, really, I could do nothing but go fetal and weep. But the song is also partly an attempt to make connections with other people, to say that maybe if we act in consort, some of the bad feelings will go away. In community, there is comfort. The line, Hey you, out there beyond the wall/ Breaking bottles in the hall- that is an exhortation to come closer where I live, so we can help each other.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:49:43 +0000