Outside The Wall - 2011 Remastered Version

This is the last song on Pink Floyd's epic concept album The Wall. The album deals with isolation - the emotional walls we build to protect ourselves - but "Outside The Wall" closes the album with the theme of redemption. Pink Floyd bass player Roger Waters, who wrote the song and developed the concept, explained to Rolling Stone, "We are redeemed when we tear our walls down and expose our weaknesses to our fellow man... sit around the fire and talk."

"Outside The Wall" is an acoustic song with none of the band members on the instruments. Session musicians played a mandolin, clarinet, and an accordion-like instrument called a concertina. There's also a children's choir, but it's not the same one from "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)," the most famous song from the album.

The Wall centers on a character named Pink. This song is told in either his voice or the voice of his loved ones summarizing what he learned from the ordeal: Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall