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“The Happiest Days of Our Lives“ is a song by Pink Floyd. It appeared on The Wall album in 1979. “The Happiest Days of Our Lives“ concerns Pink's youth, attending a school run by strict and often violent teachers who treat the pupils with contempt. According to Waters, the lyrics were a reflection of his own negative experience in school. He described this in an interview with Tommy Vance of BBC Radio One. Pink and his two friends go down to a railway track to lay bullets on the rails and watch them explode under the passing train. Pink, putting himself up against the tunnel wall, sees that the train cars are packed with faceless people. He sees his teacher at the other end of the tunnel yelling at him to stand still. In the next scene, in Pink's school, the teacher discovers Pink writing a poem (which contains lyrics from “Money“) and, as punishment, ridicules Pink by reading his poem out loud to the entire class then slaps his left hand with a ruler
