10 Hidden Details You Never Noticed In Rock Songs
8. The Wall - Pink Floyd
It's a pretty massive undertaking deciding to sit down with Pink Floyd's the Wall. Running across 2 discs, this mammoth double album of Roger Waters' vision is one of the few times that rock and roll has felt like watching a feature film. Once you start to venture further down the rabbit hole though, some of the interwoven bits tend to go together a bit too well.
Across the main storyline, we see Pink as he tries to distance himself from reality, only to realize the error of his ways and tear down his own wall. However, once you get to the paradise on the final track Outside the Wall, you pick up on a faint voice in the very last seconds saying 'Isn't this...' Even though this might not make sense at first, it actually connects into the first track In the Flesh where the same voice says 'where we came in.'
In essence, the entire album is practically a loop of itself, never really giving you the resolution that you're looking for at the end of the record. It's actually pretty ingenious considering the subject matter as well, as Pink tears down his wall only to build it back up again whenever life gets to him. While these rock operas do have some sense of closure at the end, this little detail shows that even the sharpest creative people are condemned to repeat their past actions.