Audience in Pink Floyd's "Us and Them"

Pink Floyd's anti-war song "Us and Them" from their 1973 album, "The Dark Side of the Moon," strikes a very philosophical point of view on the US involvement in the Vietnam war.  Pink Floyd's song does this by invoking deep thoughts on war in general in the audience. People protested the Vietnam war in the 1960s through the early 1970s as well as the violence used by the police. The song "Us and Them" was geared towards politicians and everyone who was not already protesting and was meant to encourage them to rethink the purpose of war. Many references can be found in the song that are aimed to get people thinking. For example, the first few lines "Us and them, and after all we're all just ordinary men" refers to the men being drafted to the war and how they are just regular people. The next two lines takes this point and pulls it even deeper. The lines, "Me, and you; God only knows it's not what we would choose to do" are referring to the men on the battlefield. They are there but none of them actually want to take each other's lives. This is really powerful and it gets the audience thinking past the big picture of war and thinking about the individual lives of the soldiers. Pink Floyd attempts to target a large audience in the United States and encourages everyone to rethink what war truly brings. Safety from communism? Or needless death?