The Happiest Days off Our Lives

The Happiest Days off Our Lives is a song of the British group of progressive Rock Pink Floyd. It appears on the album The Wall , left in 1979. The song attacks the problem of the abuse of power in the education system, in spite of its ironic title.

Composition

The song, in four times (4/4) and in major F, lasts approximately 2 minutes and during the 20 first second, one hears a helicopter which approaches followed words the principal. After this moment, one hears the low throughout all song until the transition from this song to Another Brick in the Wall (Share 2) . Several people believe that The Happiest Days off Our Lives and Another Brick in the Wall (Share 2) is in fact only one song when on the contrary they are divided.

The end of the song finishes into molten on Another Brick in the Wall (Share 2) on the album, and the radio stations generally diffuses the songs together. Some of them judge that Another Brick in the Wall (Share 2) starts too abruptly to only diffuse it, contrary to The Happiest Days off Our Lives which starts quietly with a noise of helicopter.

Analyzes words

Like all the songs of The Wall , The Happiest Days off Our Lives tells part of the history of Pink, the main character of the album. Here it is at the school where he is maltreated by his professors and where all the children are supervised unceasingly.

Roger Waters explained the song in an interview with Tommy Vance for Radio One . It mentions that the “happy” word, present in the title of the song, would not be the word which it would employ for its own memories of school:

The Happiest Days off Our Lives condemns the life to the school, my life at the school resembled that much. It was terrible. When I intend people now to complain that grammar should be given forces some with the program of the school, that returns to me really sick. I went in a school for boys. I make a point of stressing that some of the men who taught over there were really adorable. It is not a pure and simple judgment of all Profs of the whole world, because I admire much Profs. But the bad ones can traumatiser of people for a long time, and there are of them some in my school which were incredibly bad and which treated the children really badly. They wanted to make them return in the system and oppressed them in order to make them return in their mould, with an aim which they can go to the university and “to succeed”. I am sure that arrives and that there is a resurgence of this mentality in England currently. A true panic, because the small poor cannot read or write, and this resurgence of “good, we must put them at the step”, instead of wanting to interest them in things and treating them each one like single individuals. There is EC thought which thinks that all that, it is shit, and that all that you have to make is to sit them, make them be held quiet and to learn to them from the tricks, and it is it what I oppose. I am privileged because I can choose the education of my children. The majority of the gtens are obliged to pass some by state education. But my opinion it is that the public education system improves. There are many paradoxes in all that. But, you see, perhaps that one should not speak about my political opinions. Perhaps that if… That is equal for me. I do not have anything to hide. It is not political. It is also sociological. For me, it is the same thing, vraiment.

Version of film

In adapted film of the album, Pink Floyd The Wall , one sees Pink and its friends who try to put the ball of a rifle (that of the father of Pink) on the railway. Pink goes in a small tunnel where the train passes with children who carry masks and the professor appears. Afterwards, one can see Pink classifies some at the school and the professor stops at his office and takes one little book of poems that Pink wrote, whose text is exactly that of the song Money of the album The Dark Side off the Moon .

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