This is a sad song about being estranged and isolated. Nobody is there when you pick up the phone to talk to them. It could be a friend, or a boyfriend/girlfriend.
In the Pink Floyd movie The Wall, this is about Pink's wife, whom he seems to have lost contact with.
Some Pink Floyd fans speculate that The Wall may be the life stories of Syd Barrett, not Roger Waters, and that the movie's character, Pink, is a merging of both Waters and Barrett. A piece of evidence toward Syd Barrett's presence in Pink is in this song. The line, "I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm" could refer to Syd's haircut during his prime in the '60s.
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