Question regarding Pink Floyd's The Wall...(The Trial)?

Question

In the opening lines you hear (sarcastically) that "the prisoner" is guilty of "showing feelings of an almost human nature". I assume this is referring to pink, the protagonist. But this line seems to contradict the point of the song, which is supposed to be that Pink brought everything upon himself (the evidence is contravertable!). My question is how does this line "showing feelings of an almost human nature" function in the song? It just seems to contradict the message in The Trial

Sorry about that error. The thing I don't get is how it seems sarcastic. Like he should be allowed to show feelings. But he hasn't. So how did the worm convict him?

"Over the rainbow*"

Answer 1

Actually, it says "incontrovertible", but forgetting about nitpicking, the song is saying that Pink is guilty of showing his feelings, and it is this showing of his feelings which has made him unhappy and hurt his wife and mother. Therefore the penalty is to tear down the wall (the very thing which hides his feelings and his shield against being hurt by anything from the outside).

In actual fact, Pink is judging himself and all this is going on inside his own head. I agree it is contradictory. The result of the trial should be "build up the wall!". But then again, the song also says "Crazy, over the window, I am crazy, bars in the window", so it shouldn't be a surprise that a crazy person contradicts himself!

Answer 2

I think that it means that Pink has become so machine-like and cold with his wall around him that when he calls a stop to it in Stop! (the only whiney Roger song I like), he's showing that he is a human being after all, which "will not do" with the Worm judge. He had just shed his worm-ness in Stop! since he didn't want to be there any more, supporting racism and anti-Semitism. He's comparing himself to what he once was.