Meaning of “Another Brick in the Wall”: By Another Handįirst off it should be noted that this track is part of a concept album entitled “The Wall”. He concludes that he does not need anything at all and justifies his motives for isolating himself with the wall he has built. Having no arms around signifies denying himself of any sort of comfort. He now transitions into a defensive state where he does not want to have anything to do with people. The narrator can’t deal with his sadness/depression anymore. This is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, and probably the most painful. This kind of conditioning seems to have had an adverse effect on the singer who eventually qualifies it as another brick in the wall. Children were only served the extra pudding attached to their lunch if only they finished their lunch first.
The narrator also depicts the nature of certain behavioral controls that were introduced in schools during that period. The chorus urges a protest by kids against this kind of fixed technique which immaturely impedes creativity in young children. He apparently feels they gain some kind of gratification from mentally abusing and punishing children.
He describes the teachers in a negative light. In the second part, the narrator recalls his schooling days where his ‘evil’ teachers wanted nothing but to control him to do things in a particular way. This pain of having been abandoned by his father becomes the first brick he builds up to face people as he grows up. His father never returns since he gets killed, and leaves this little child with nothing but a memory, and an old photo in his family album.
Centered on the Second World War era, the narrator describes his childhood as a rather traumatic one in which his father leaves him to go and fight the war.
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