Lyric explanation for Us & Them

Anybody care to break it down and explain it line by line, or every few lines or so?

Not really.

Why do you post here? I thought this forum could have been a place away from my normal IGN board posting... hopefully not all the posters are junk

How about you do it for us.

I'm not sure what Roger meant with every line, but this song is basically Roger getting sick of war and violence, which helps you to get mad, which is the main idea of DSOTM. Welcome to the board Floydian GP BTW . Beware THEM.

What, those two? Are those the only two wastes on this board ?

Stick around.

My my, this chap sounds like a revolutionary! Welcome to the forum!

I only answered your question.

If you didn't want an honest answer why bother asking it?

Also, if you are so slow you can't figure out what the basic idea is behind a song that is pretty explicit, well, you deserve the mockery.

Unless you are 6 years old, in that case, my apologies.

What NNJ said. It's not that ambiguous.

Us & Them is about 'war'. From war between nations to the personal war you have with that weasel trying to beat you to that last parking space.

One basic human characteristic is to separate into like groups, and then perceive others as the 'enemy'.

Roger is just lamenting this fact. In his Marxist fantasyland, these nasty traits would all be gone forever.

Even in my nonMarxist fantasyland, those traits would be nonexistent.

Geez NNJ!!!!!!!

Welcome to the boards there fellow Floydian, we don't all bite.

But those who do will really take a chunk out of your ass.

I bite.

I know, and I don't remember asking you to stop.