Pink Floyd

This song is a precursor for the rest of the album. if you imagine that others are the ice you are skating on, the more good, honest friends you have, and the more support you have the thicker the ice is and the safer you are. Since Pink didn’t have the kind of support he needed, he had incredibly thin ice. And he slipped out of his depth and out of his mind as he struggled to claw his way out. In an interview with Jim Ladd, Roger Waters explains: "It’s supposed to be about how…I think it’s about how parents start inducing, almost inject, their own fears and worries into their children from a very early age. Particularly in my case when they had just been through a world war or something like that – we all go through devastating experiences and we tend to pass them onto our children when they are very young – I suspect."