Meaning
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Waters explained that the song's lyrics were an attempt to describe "the potential that human beings have for recognizing each other's humanity and responding to it, with empathy rather than antipathy." He has also stated in many interviews that this song is the ideological predecessor to The Dark Side of the Moon, for in "Echoes" he began to focus the music of Pink Floyd on people and the issues facing humanity rather than fantastical space trips and psychedelic imagery.
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