The article argues that Pink Floyd were right to leave ‘When the Tigers Broke Free’ off the original 1979 album *The Wall*, despite considering it an excellent song. It says the track would have reinforced the central character Pink’s grief over his father’s wartime death, but risked slowing the album’s narrative pace and repeating ideas already covered in ‘Another Brick in the Wall’.

Written from Roger Waters’s perspective, the song was later used in the film adaptation of *The Wall* and appeared on *The Final Cut*. The article describes it as a strong reflection of Waters’s personal experiences and songwriting at the time, while concluding that it worked better outside *The Wall* because the album’s time limits and structure left little need for another account of Pink’s father.