Pink Floyd: Mother Meaning

Mother Lyrics

Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother, do you think they'll like this song?
Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Mother, should I build the wall?
Mother, should I run for President?
Mother, should I trust the...

1. PAJOFLOYD

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   Jul 27th 2008 !⃝

   You guys should have listened more than once at The Wall (CD and Movie). If you do so, most of The Wall lyrics will come clear to you...
   The Wall is mostly Waters' biography...living his childhood without his father (which died at War), her Mom has been his only Family symbol for him. In the movie, you clearly see that in "Mother", Pink (Water) is missing his mom as hell, too much drugs, too much loneliness, he is lost in thoughts and cries out what he might to with his WALL he's building...Overall, this song is all about Pink asking what he might do than.. "Mother should I build the Wall??"
2. tatbrat

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   Jun 23rd 2008 !⃝

   A relationship between a man and his controlling mother.
3. anonymous

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   Mar 26th 2008 !⃝

   Well I know that this song isn't about a mother that overprotects her child because the Father was killed in a war. This is proven in another brick in the wall part 2. When you hear the helicopter fly in you hear a yell that Says," You! Yes, You! Son.....DEAL WITH IT! The boy whether it be pink or not was abused by his father. The mother hates it when this happens which leads why she is over protective. There's 2 things that could have happened. The mother and son ran away from the father to make the son safe and the Father is trying to find them. Or the Child services found out and took him away

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
4. dritani176

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   Aug 14th 2007 !⃝

   Try to replace the term "mother" with "the government" and everything will come clear to you.
5. AlfreRH

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   Aug 8th 2007 !⃝

   This song is about, pink´s mother, and is in the album the wall, and the movie the wall. She is a mother that overprotects him, at the limit, and that translates all the fears to him. The one that says that the song is abut Roger Waters is completely wrong! He declared that his mother wasn´t like he describes it in "The Wall".
6. anonymous

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   May 8th 2007 !⃝

   Read the liner notes from "the Wall" album, if I remember correctly he isolates him self from all the materialism in life, kind of like soloman in the old testament chasing after pleasure is meaningless.
7. anonymous

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   Apr 25th 2007 !⃝

   It's about how Pink's mom is way over protective.
8. pompey

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   Mar 9th 2007 !⃝

   I think the first guy's explanation is amazing and makes perfect sense.
9. anonymous

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   Feb 7th 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is also a reflection of Roger W.'s childhood, about his mom and that "she was so obsessed with education" (R. W. about this fact in the movie MAKING OF THE D.S.O.T.M.).
10. anonymous

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    Nov 18th 2006 !⃝

    An obvious reference to the USSR; Mother Russia and what-not.
    
    Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb
    (Cold War. Come on, people.)
    Mother, do you think they'll like this song
    (Pink Floyd was always taking tours to Russia to further the non-aggression between the USA and the USSR. To encourage the tearing down of the Berlin Wall expressed later.)
    ...
    Mother, should I build a wall
    (Aye.)
    
    Mother, should I run for president
    Mother, should I trust the government
    Mother, will they put me in the firing line
    Is it just a waste of time
    (Obvious social criticsm. As were many of the songs made around this time. Born in the USA by Springsteem, etc.)
    
    And the rest of the song is balanced out by the socialism and censorship experienced in the USSR and what was previous stated: that mother's are usually over-protective and "don't want to send their boys off to war". (As an example.)
    
    But the last line:
    Mother, did it need to be so high
    (Is another obvious reference to the Berlin Wall.)
    
    Just sayin'.
11. ramone

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    May 13th 2006 !⃝

    I always thought this song was being sang from the perspective of somebody being really really waisted or high to the point of not being able to make any right choices in life so he is seeking guidence from his mother and asks her all the questions that are in his head thinking she would know the right answers. I love Pink Floyd!
12. anonymous

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    May 4th 2006 !⃝

    I think that this song is about a boy whose father died in the war. Because of this, his mother is overly protective and the boys in his neighborhood treat him like an outcast. His mother "builds a wall" around him, i.e. She isolates him and protects him from everything. Everything he does needs approval from his mother, and he grows up not knowing his own opinions. The last line "Mother, did it need to be so high?" refers to the wall that his mother built around him.

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