Composition
The song is 2 minutes and 10 seconds in length and features a long introductory section, which includes an airport announcement, a reference to Pink heading for an American tour. At approximately 48 seconds into the song, the tone changes, and gets slightly louder. The song reaches a climax of tension, at which point Roger Waters plays the descending blues scale to release the tension and then cueing the start of the vocals. The song ends abruptly, as the last word of the song, "wall", isn't completed until the beginning of the next track, "Young Lust".
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