What was Pink Floyd trying to say in this song (here are the lyrics)?

Question

Mother, do you think theyll drop the bomb?
Mother, do you think theyll like this song?
Mother, do you think theyll try to break my balls?
Ooooowaa mother, should I build a wall?

Mother, should I run for president?
Mother, should I trust the government?
Mother, will they put me in the firing line?
Ooooowaa is it just a waste of time?

Hush, my baby. baby, dont you cry.
Mommas gonna make all of your nightmares come true.
Mommas gonna put all of her fears into you.
Mommas gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She wont let you fly, but she might let you sing.
Mommas gonna keep baby cozy and warm.
Oooo babe.
Oooo babe.
Ooo babe, of course mommas gonna help build a wall.

Mother, do you think shes good enough,
For me?
Mother, do you think shes dangerous,
To me?
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Ooooowaa mother, will she break my heart?

Hush, my baby. baby, dont you cry.
Mommas gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Momma wont let anyone dirty get through.
Mommas gonna wait up until you get in.
Momma will always find out where youve been.
Mommas gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Oooo babe.
Oooo babe.
Ooo babe, youll always be baby to me.

Mother, did it need to be so high?

I think that music from the "hippie-dippie" era was meant to be perceived differently by different people....that is why I asked.

Answer 1

WAR

Answer 2

Okay...

Mother is over protective. Nothing's going to hurt her little boy. She must make sure of that, since Daddy went across the ocean and he's never ever ever coming back.

"Pink" is asking his mother what he should do, trying to double check everything before he does it. But what does he do? He lets his mom build the protective wall around her little boy too high. No dates. No driving. None of this "rock and roll" that will make her little boy think bad things. She adds a brick for each "No" she gives poor Pink, until he's about trapped in.

The Wall is supposed to be the freakish love child of Syd Barrett and Roger Water's early lives (Drugs and shtuff to Syd, father dying in the war and shtuff to Roger). So I have no clue where the overprotective parent comes in.

Answer 3

according to songfacts.com:::

The movie The Wall is a semi-autobiographical story about a young boy that loses his father in the war and is raised by his overly protective mother. The child grows up alone as an outsider that absolutely does not fit in. He feels trapped by his overly protective environment while being shunned by the men around him.


Roger Waters: "If you can level one accusation at mothers, it is that they tend to protect their children too much. Too much and for too long. This isn't a portrait of my mother, although one or two of the things in there apply to her as well as to I'm sure lots of other people's mothers." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)

Answer 4

The answer to your question I think is best found on the movie "The Wall". I take it as a young mans lack of self-assuredness due to the smothering nature of an over-bearing mother

Answer 5

Its a song about a kid whos father died in war and his mother smothers him , being overly protective and the other boys make fun of him about it.

Seems pretty clear to me.

Answer 6

lifes drama and the fact he needed to build a wall to guard him from life. momma wouldn't let him live in peace. he's seen to much in life and basically it has set him crazy. mama coddles him too much

Answer 7

Its seems pretty obviously to be about a big brother government type scenario.

Answer 8

About life..

His mother is trying to sheild him from the society and everything else.
He's skeptical about things and environment in life..

SKEPTICISM vs PARANOID