Roger Waters wrote all of the lyrics for the album and thus began a 5 album run of simply incredible concepts, music and words, beautifully interwoven with David Gilmour's brilliant guitar solos, Nick Mason's simple understated drumming, and Rick Wright's melodic organ fills.
Dark Side of the Moon (Death, Time, Money, Greed, Desperation, Mental Illness)
Wish You Were Here (Growing old, relationships, mental illness, nostalgia, greed)
Animals (Avarice, Consumerism, Machiavellianism, Fascism, Conformity)
The Wall( Isolation, War, childhood trauma, Megalomania, failed relationships, Mental Illness)
The Final Cut (War, Trauma, grief, loss, decline of social constructs of post-war Britain)
I remember in senior year high school watching this dumb lady in a Palin t-shirt (in proto-MAGA red) insist to John McCain that Obama was an ay-rab and that she didn't trust him and McCain had to actually tell her that he wasn't an arab and actually a decent man.
We discussed it in our US government class the following day and I told the teacher that, although I felt McCain and Palin would lose, we would eventually get a male version of Palin in the WH and he would hire people like this dumb lady to work for him.
And then it happened. Twice.