The Happiest Days of our Lives

  The title of this song is without any doubt an irony when we read and listen to the lyrics. They tell how harsh was growing up to be surrounded by a system that humilliated and repressed them, as well as manipulated, mainly by their teachers at school.

  Moreover, we can think of the title literally as well, taking into consideration that life after school, as adults, was much harder. Grown up people had to face the system in other aspects than children had and it may have been more difficult, as they had tools to raise against it if they did not agree with it but they knew if they did they had to brook the consequences.