Us and Them - Shirley Adamson/Waters/Wright

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 'n 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

Down

And out

It can't be helped

But that 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