(written by Roger Waters)
Lyrics:
(See Another Brick in the Wall part 3 (Wall album) for sung lyrics.)
For this song, the film intercuts extremely rapidly a number of scenes from the movie, depicting things in the past, things yet to come, and scenes that didn't make the final cut of the movie, except in their brief depiction here. These scenes of hate, betrayal, marriage, school, mother, rejection, loss, women, and violence add up to the sum total of the bricks in Pink's wall. The wall is almost complete, and in terms of the film, this is a recap of all that has gone to make it.
The riot scenes glimpsed here and there during parts of the song were also shot at the gasworks at Becton, and included 150 rioters and police. Among the rioters were the Hammer Guard skinheads, who feature later in the film.
Alan Parker: "The riot footage was an improvised affair that developed through the night. The only image I'd preconceived was the 'wall' of riot police, their shields glinting in the light, behind them a second wall of flames. As the night drew on and the skinheads and 'police' clashed for the dozenth time, tempers were rising. The skinheads had found it difficult to grasp that these were actors dressed as policeman and that we were creating a film riot, not a real one. But, however many times we reminded them, the fighting always seemed to continue long after I had yelled out 'Cut!'" [Dallas 127]
TRACK LISTING
Overture/PreludeWhen the Tigers Broke Free Part 1
In the Flesh?
Thin Ice, The
Another Brick in the Wall part 1
When the Tigers Broke Free Part 2
Goodbye Blue Sky
Happiest Days of Our Lives, The
Another Brick in the Wall part 2
Mother
What Shall We Do Now?
Young Lust
One of My Turns
Don't Leave Me Now
Another Brick in the Wall part 3
Goodbye Cruel World
Is There Anybody Out There?
Nobody Home
Vera
Bring the Boys Back Home
Comfortably Numb
In the Flesh
Run Like Hell
Waiting for the Worms
Stop
Trial, The
Outside the Wall
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