Nobody Home

"Nobody Home" was written late into the development of The Wall after an argument between the band and Roger Waters. David Gilmour said that the song "came along when we were well into the thing [The Wall] and he'd [Waters] gone off in a sulk the night before and came in the next day with something fantastic." == Lyrics ==

In the song, the character Pink describes his lonely life of social isolation behind his self-created mental wall. He has no one to talk to, and all he has are his possessions. The song describes what Roger Waters says he experienced during the band's 1977 tour, the band's first major stadium tour. Additionally, the song contains some references to founding Pink Floyd member, Syd Barrett. == Personnel ==

Pink Floyd • David Gilmour – bass guitar • Roger Waters – vocals, EMS VCS 3 • Richard Wright – piano, Prophet-5 synthesiser with: • Bob Ezrin – piano • New York Symphony Orchestra Personnel per Fitch and Mahon. == Cover versions ==

• An orchestrated version, arranged by Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted by Peter Scholes, appears on the instrumental album Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd (1995). • On Metric's 2011 tour, for their fourth studio album, Fantasies (2009). • On the tribute album Back Against the Wall (2005), the track is performed by Rick Wakeman of Yes. • Mark Lanegan performed the song on the tribute album The Wall Redux (2018). == Bibliography ==