10 Rock Songs That Left Us All Hanging

10. Outside the Wall - Pink Floyd

Anyone who’s looking to get into concept albums is in for a fairly long ride if you start off with the Wall. Though Roger Waters created one of the greatest spectacles in rock history with this one album, hearing him comb through the layers of his own psyche to create Pink is a lot more emotional than you might bargain for on first listen. Once the trial ends with Pink tearing down his wall, it does have a bit of a happy ending…right?

For the most part, Outside the Wall feels like a subtle way to roll credits on the entire album, being a serene piece of sound design that plays as Pink finds out what it really means to not have borders around himself anymore. The sun seems to be shining on the final moments of this record until the final few seconds where Pink starts to say something before the album gets cut off. While we only hear him get out the first two words of “Isn’t this,” we don’t really know what he was saying until you play the record over again.

Once you have the last piece of the puzzle, going back to the first version of In the Flesh on disc 1 starts off with the line “where we came in,” completing the thought that Pink has at the end as we start things up. If anything, this cliffhanger makes you feel worse after you hear the ending. Even with all of the pain that he went through on this album, Pink is doomed to repeat himself again and again.