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146. According to Nick Mason Roger Water's wrote that mainly with his new wife in mind.

"Pigs on the Wing" is a two-part song by progressive rock band Pink Floyd from their 1977 concept album Animals, starting and wrapping up the album.[1] According to various interviews, it was written by Roger Waters as a declaration of love to his new wife Lady Carolyne Christie. This song is significantly different from the other three songs on the album, "Dogs", "Pigs", and "Sheep" in that the other songs are dark, whereas this one is lighter-themed.[1]

According to Nick Mason, and confirmed by Waters, it is a love song directed towards Waters' new wife at the time, Carolyne. She was really the only one Roger's friends had ever met who could hold her own in an argument with him; according to Mason you had to be very good with semantics to win an argument against him. Waters wrote the song because that's all he had been looking for all along: someone who could stand up to him, an equal. Carolyne, later noted by Waters, could not understand the strength, and consequently, the beauty he saw in her. The former piece of the song conveys a theme of despondency and isolation imposed upon the individual resulting from the societal pressures which work to separate the masses, a theme developed in the proceeding track, "Dogs". Waters conveys a hopeful theme in the latter portion of the song, illustrating the strength and emotional safety as a result of unity among individuals, a safety Waters felt quickly upon meeting Carolyne.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_on_the_Wing

The photoshoot for the Animals album cover was shot at Battersea Power Station in south London using an air balloon pig tethered to one of the chimneys. I can remember the hue and cry when it became unleashed and floated off south east eventually to be recovered in Kent.

I'd thought Pigs on the Wing was an allusion with "when pigs can fly"