Lyrics to
Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)

This version of Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii) was released by Pink Floyd in 1979.

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We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave us kids alone
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall

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About Lyrics and Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii) by Pink Floyd

When you decide to study the lyrics to Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Pink Floyd. Some of the lyrics to Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Pink Floyd and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii) if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii)" means the words set to the music of Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Pink Floyd. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii) and the lyrics to Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Pink Floyd who came here looking just for the lyrics to Another Brick In The Wall (Part Ii), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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