matter of fact, it's all dark

Okay, I am a massive Pink Floyd fan. This much is for certain. When I saw Dark Side of the Moon, vinyl, original pressing at Ten Seconds Down, for $14, I picked it up immediately. I was disappointed to see the sleeve was in a pretty bad state, but the record itself was pristine - no warps, the grooves still sharp as the day they were pressed.

General consensus seems to be that the album is about varied forms of insanity, and if that's true, then I think The Great Gig In The Sky must be about autism - or rather, the aspect of autism that means that you are incapable of speech. There is not a single lyric througout the song, but the vocals still clearly speak of immense loss and sadness. You don't need words to communicate. It's possibly the saddest song ever written, and it doesn't say a thing.

Of course, what the name seems to indicate and what I always thought was that it was about a funeral, but there's no reason it can't be both.