Interpret These Lyrics

• ernest_t_bass

  

  From the Pink Floyd classic track, Another Brick in the Wall (part 2).
  
  "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
  have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
  
  What do you think this means?
• UA5straightin2008

  

  if a girl doesnt "eat her meat" then she wont get the "pudding" that comes from "the meat"
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I second UA5.
  
  Quality advice for any woman.
• j_crazy

  

  If I had to guess, I'd say if you don't eat the meat then you're by God getting no pudding.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  I think to allow better interpretation to these lyrics, you also have to take into account the rest of the song.
  
  "We don't need no education..."
• FatHobbit

  

  If you don't do the work, then you don't get any results?
• ytownfootball

  

  "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
  have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"

  ernest_t_bass will allow packing of fudge for a small fee
• ernest_t_bass

  

  I interpret it as Floyd communicating to us, "We don't need education. We don't need you to tell us that we can't have our pudding. We want our pudding, and we don't want our meat."
  
  The voice, to me, is the "man" bringing them down, the educator, trying to dictate everything they do. "We don't need no education!" They are sick and tired of everything in the "system" telling them what to do.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  ytownfootball wrote:

  "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
  have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"

  ernest_t_bass will allow packing of fudge for a small fee

  That didn't take long. I laughed, however, b/c I knew this would happen before I even started the thread.
  
  So, nice original comeback, ytown. 15 internets to you. Your post has WIN written all over it. Well done. I applaud you.
• UA5straightin2008

  

  
• ernest_t_bass

  

  UA5, 24 internets to you. Well done! WIN!
• UA5straightin2008

  

  YESSS!!!!!!!
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Come on, CC. You're a Floyd fan. You know there is deep philosophical meaning behind their songs.
• BRF

  

  The meat and the pudding are all part of the same dish. So if you don't eat the meat, you can't have the pudding.
  
  The English are weird and years behind us. And I don't like Pink Floyd.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  CC... If you are interested, read "Pink Floyd and Philosophy." Some interesting takes on their music. After reading it, I see a lot of different meanings to their songs. Reason I started this thread was to see if anyone else would think that they are showing their disgust for the state, and people always telling them what they can and cannot do. They are human beings, capable of figuring things out for themselves, yet someone is always telling them what to do.
• Squirmydog

  When I put down marijuana for the last time, I put down Pink Floyd's "The Wall". It is a bitch to watch without the aid of recreational pharmaceuticals. That being said, I say that one lyric to my children (who are 7 and 8 and do not do recreational pharmaceuticals). They just think its funny. I'll roll with that.
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  It's about authority. How others dictate what we can do and when we can do it......
  
  Wow, there's really a book called Pink Floyd and philosophy????
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Strapping Young Lad wrote: It's about authority. How others dictate what we can do and when we can do it......
  
  Wow, there's really a book called Pink Floyd and philosophy????

  You think so too? Yes, there IS a book called that. It's VERY interesting.
• Trueblue23

  

  I could tell you all what it means, but that would be too easy.
  
  Indulge in some good acid, listen again, then you will know.