Bring the Boys Back Home

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Bring the Boys Back Home
Pink Floyd
publication November 30, 1979
length 1:21
Genre (s) Rock music , progressive rock , progressive pop , art rock
text Roger Waters
music Roger Waters , David Gilmour , Richard Wright
album The Wall

Bring the Boys Back Home is a song by British rock band Pink Floyd from the 1979 concept album The Wall .

content

Like all other songs from The Wall , Bring the Boys Back Home tells part of the story of the protagonist Pink , who erects an imaginary wall to protect himself from emotional influences.

Although Bring the Boys Back Home sounds like a simple anti-war song that doesn't have much to do with the plot, it plays an important role in the story. Waters said: "... it's partly about not letting people go off and be killed in wars, but it's partly about not allowing rock and roll, or making cars, or selling soap, or getting involved in biological research, or anything that anybody might do ... not letting that become such an important and 'jolly boy's game' that it becomes more important than friends, wives, children, or other people ". In other words, this song criticizes the fact that for many men, work is more important than friends and family. This is also the case with Pink, as he only ever thought about his rock star career and never really thought about his family.

music

Waters sings most of the text together with a choir, which abruptly falls silent after 48 seconds. Then Waters' voice can be heard for a second, until it also falls silent, which could mean that the drug addict Pink faints.

This is followed by voices from Pink's past, then a violent knocking and shouts from Pink's manager, who wants to tell Pink that it is time for his performance. The song ends with the line “ Is there anybody out there? “(Sung by Waters) from the song of the same name , whereupon the song turns into Comfortably Numb .

Movie

A separate version is used in the film, in which Waters does not sing along.

Pink can be seen as a little boy at a train station when the soldiers return from the war. However, his father is not there, whereupon Pink discovers that his father did not survive the war.

As the choir falls silent and the song slowly ends, memories from Pink's life that drove him crazy are shown, according to the teacher from The Happiest Days of Our Lives , the operator from Young Lust and the young woman from One of My Turns .

occupation

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literature

  • Andy Mabbett: The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. Omnibus, London 1995, ISBN 0-7119-4301-X .
  • Vernon Fitch: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. 3. Edition. Collector's Guide Publications, Burlington, Ont. 2005, ISBN 1-894959-24-8 .

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