First of all. It's Waters.
And calling Water's lyrics infantile and silly while defending Barrett? Sure post Syd Floyd have some songs with rather simple or silly lyrics, like Money. But they also have Wish You Were Here and Animals.
I wouldn't call Waters a genius, but thats because I think Pink Floyd were a band greater than the sums of its parts. Waters, Gilmour and Wright are all great musicians and contributed to the songwriting and were important in defining the band post Syd. I wouldn't call them geniuses as individuals, but I think they are more deserving of the term than Syd, and as a team I think they really were pretty genius.
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