Us & Them - Pink Floyd
Us, and them
And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end it's only round and round.
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside.
"I mean, they're not gunna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short, sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off lightly, 'cos I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once! It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh?"
Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about.
With, without.
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.
This is the longest song on DSOTM. The saxophone solos (one in the beginning and one towards the end of the song) give the track a mellow, bluesy feel, underlining the jazz influence. On his website, "Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon," Vincent Amendolare offers up an interesting interpretation of the Pink Floyd song. He notes what Roger Waters once said about it: "Rick wrote the chord sequence for this and I used it as a vehicle. I can't remember when I wrote the top line and the lyric, but it was certainly during the making of 'Dark Side Of The Moon' because it seems that the whole idea, the political idea of humanism and whether it could or should have any effect on any of us, that's what the record is about really - conflict, our failure to connect with one another.” According to Amendolare, "Us and Them" comments on the human tendency to "partition" themselves from those who they are not familiar with. According to Waters, "the first verse [and chorus] is about going to war, how in the front line we don't get much chance to communicate with one another, because someone else has decided that we shouldn't.”
Us, and them
And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end it's only round and round.
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside.
"I mean, they're not gunna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short, sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off lightly, 'cos I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once! It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh?"
Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about.
With, without.
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.
This is the longest song on DSOTM. The saxophone solos (one in the beginning and one towards the end of the song) give the track a mellow, bluesy feel, underlining the jazz influence. On his website, "Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon," Vincent Amendolare offers up an interesting interpretation of the Pink Floyd song. He notes what Roger Waters once said about it: "Rick wrote the chord sequence for this and I used it as a vehicle. I can't remember when I wrote the top line and the lyric, but it was certainly during the making of 'Dark Side Of The Moon' because it seems that the whole idea, the political idea of humanism and whether it could or should have any effect on any of us, that's what the record is about really - conflict, our failure to connect with one another.” According to Amendolare, "Us and Them" comments on the human tendency to "partition" themselves from those who they are not familiar with. According to Waters, "the first verse [and chorus] is about going to war, how in the front line we don't get much chance to communicate with one another, because someone else has decided that we shouldn't.”
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