Us and Them (song)

"Us and Them" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd, from their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.

The tune was originally written on the piano by Wright for the film Zabriskie Point in 1969 and was titled "The Violent Sequence".

Director Michelangelo Antonioni rejected it on the grounds that it was too unlike material such as "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", which was the style of music he wanted to use.

They describe the senseless nature of war and the ignorance of modern-day humans who have been taken over by consumerism and materialism.

[9] It was re-released on the 2001 best of album, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, where it is the seventh track of the second disc.

The ending of the song was edited in this version, with the vocals from the last bar treated with heavy delay, and the music track muted entirely, to avoid the seamless transition to "Any Colour You Like" that occurs on The Dark Side of the Moon.

[10] The following dialogue by the band's roadie, Roger "The Hat" Manifold, one of his two spoken segments on the album, is heard before the second saxophone solo (5:04), describing an altercation he had with a driver a few days prior: I mean, he's gonna kill ya, so like, if you give 'em a quick sh ... short, sharp shock, he'll never do it again.