(01-12-2011 01:57 PM)Joe Wrote:  I really doubt that. I think Roger himself experienced The Wall. And, no, he doesn't talk about himself in Dogs. But, in Pigs On The Wing, he refers to himself as a dog "Somewhere safe to bury my bones [...] and any fool knows, a dog needs a home". Moreover, I would think of dogs as bourgeois, and I think Roger can be classified as a bourgeois.

Pigs On The Wing pts. 1 & 2 were love songs to his then-girlfriend, so the "dog" in question is him talking about how through his relationship with her, he found some place he could go to avoid/escape the things which at the time, were weighing heavily on him.

The notion of dogs as presented in the song Dogs is not the same as presented in those two songs.