Mother, should I run for President? Roger Waters
Hearing this album for perhaps the billionth time since I turned 12, I just realised tonight that this particular piece of lyrics just doesn’t make any sense, being sung by an Englishman.
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Class president, maybe?
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I have way too much free time (not really).
Well, “Prime Minister” doesn’t rhyme with “Government”.
(assuming a suitably loose interpretation of the word “rhyme”)
How could matters of lyrical rhyming ever take precedence over a proper depiction of your country’s constitutional government system? That’s just plain irresponsible: who will teach the kids then!
I always figured the bricks were metaphorical ones placed between the conscious and un- or subconscious minds. Somewhat of a less literal “translation” than the wikipage, perhaps, but then I never had the album, just listened to the single on the radio sometimes.
Could The President be a metaphor? Just a guess: the ego?