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It doesn't have a strict composition, varying from venue to venue, but it usually contained themes from The Happiest Days Of Our Lives , Don't Leave Me Now , Young Lust , Empty Spaces / What Shall We Do Now? , and sometimes even Breathe . It was played onstage to allow the bricklayers to lay a considerable number of bricks missing to almost completely seal off the stage before Roger Waters appeared in the last one-brick-wide space in the wall to sing Goodbye Cruel World , and end the first part of the show.

Interestingly, before the release of the Live Album , this bridge never had an official title. Fans called the track ''Almost Gone'' on some bootleg albums of the shows, but the official name -- ''The Last Few Bricks'' -- was not used at the shows in 1980-1981, and instead was suggested to Roger Waters by producer James Guthrie during the mixing of the Live Album .