Roger Waters wrote "Mother," a track on Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall, as a thinly veiled account of his own difficult relationship with his mother. Although the song is framed through the album's fictional protagonist, Pink, Waters later confirmed that its themes of overbearing, suffocating parental control drew directly from his own upbringing, making it one of the more openly autobiographical moments on a record largely built around fictionalised alter egos.

In the song, Waters voices Pink, seeking guidance from his mother, while David Gilmour sings the mother's replies, which sound comforting but are actually stifling and controlling. Waters told Mojo magazine that his mother "always had to be right about everything" and that he grew up feeling unheard, describing her as a wall he was banging his head against. The mother character reappears later in The Wall during "The Trial," where she defends her son in court, and "Mother" is considered one of the key "bricks" symbolising the emotional isolation at the heart of the album's concept.