Bring the Boys Back Home

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"Bring the Boys Back Home"

Song by Pink Floyd
from the album The Wall
Released	30 November 1979 (US), 8 December 1979 (UK)
Recorded	April-November, 1979
Genre	Art rock/Progressive rock
Length	1:21
Label	Harvest Records (UK) Columbia Records (US)/Capitol Records (US)
Writer(s)	Waters
Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour and Roger Waters
The Wall track listing
Vera (4 of disc 2)	"Bring the Boys Back Home" (5 of disc 2)	Comfortably Numb (6 of disc 2)

"Bring The Boys Back Home" is a song on the Pink Floyd album, The Wall. The song appeared as a b-side on the single, When The Tigers Broke Free. Bring the Boys Back Home is about when the young boy Pink goes looking for his father when everyone comes home from the war, only to find out he didn't make it. The people around him are happy and carefree singing Bring the Boys Back Home. At the end of the song as the orchestra fades out, the sound of the telephone from Young Lust can be heard, along with the teacher from Another Brick in the Wall. Also the groupie from the beginning of One of My Turns is heard. The last vocal line is from Is There Anybody Out There?. There is also the sound of a voice, supposedly Pink's manager, yelling "time to go!" (to play a concert), and the sound of manic laughter.

According to Roger Waters, the song contains the main, unifying theme of the album- that is, unity. At this point in the album, Pink begins to realise that only unification can save the world, and ultimately himself. Although he realises the solution to his mounting problems, he is unable to set it in motion, and succumbs to his deteroriating mental health, collapsing in the hotel room.

On the album, Waters sings the lyrics. In the film it is sung by a large chorus.