I thought

Sandy 2022-08-21 20:54:57

I thought I wouldn't be afraid.
I thought it was outside the wall. I thought I could call someone within the wall with my education.
I thought I knew how to love and would not lose love.
I thought the war was long gone and I just needed to make money to eat.
I thought it would always be painful when you and I no longer see each other.
Turns out I was in the wall.
Thought to be afraid.
When the outside world is in chaos. All food is contaminated, all people are untrustworthy, all love becomes desire.
I thought I was hiding behind a wall and was afraid of being alone.
I thought you would understand that the barrier between us has never been destroyed.
I thought I'd forget when I didn't see you again.
I thought everything was fine, it was pure in here.
Yet this is but one part of the world.
Just a brick in the wall.
I am outside and inside.

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Pink Floyd: The Wall quotes

  • Teacher: What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? No! Poems, no less! Poems, everybody!

    [classmates laughs]

    Teacher: The laddie reckons himself a poet!

    [reads poem from Pink's little black book]

    Teacher: "Money, get back / I'm all right, Jack / Keep your hands off my stack / New car / Caviar / Four-star daydream / Think I'll buy me a football team."

    [slams the book onto Pink's desk]

    Teacher: Absolute rubbish, laddie.

    [whacks him with a ruler, growls at Pink]

    Teacher: Get on with your work.

  • Rock and Roll Manager: [Pinks Manager,Doctor and roadies trying to fix him] The boys an asthmatic.

    Hotel Manager: [Outraged] Asthmatic?

    Rock and Roll Manager: He's an Artist!