To me, this song is about the strange attitude modern culture has towards environmentalism and liberal ideals. On one hand you have the college age pseudo-hippies who love to have conversations about conservation but still live lives of comfort and capitalism that contradict this. This is best shown in the chorus:
And as the conservation conversation
Gets replaced by condensation
And hot air
Hot air is an idiom for speaking insincerely
Solar flare
Human toll
Remote control
Rhys is juxtaposing the solemn topic of murder from war, with the consumerism of watching TV.
Now the lunches are devoured
we will recline for an hour
*Lunches being DEVOURED is an obvious word choice to show consumerism and then RECLINE is a reinforcement of the remote control thing.
At the scenic nuclear power station
An oxymoron
Hear the steady drip of condensation
And the conservation conversation
Again reinforcing the idea of hot air
The songs full of juxtaposition and oxymoron. The ending of him singing Conservation Conversation faster and faster makes me think that ultimately he's saying a Conservation Conversation is an oxymoron; in order to have real conservation people have to take action not just talk about it.
To me, this song is about the strange attitude modern culture has towards environmentalism and liberal ideals. On one hand you have the college age pseudo-hippies who love to have conversations about conservation but still live lives of comfort and capitalism that contradict this. This is best shown in the chorus:
And as the conservation conversation Gets replaced by condensation And hot air Hot air is an idiom for speaking insincerely Solar flare Human toll Remote control Rhys is juxtaposing the solemn topic of murder from war, with the consumerism of watching TV.
Now the lunches are devoured we will recline for an hour *Lunches being DEVOURED is an obvious word choice to show consumerism and then RECLINE is a reinforcement of the remote control thing.
At the scenic nuclear power station An oxymoron Hear the steady drip of condensation And the conservation conversation Again reinforcing the idea of hot air
The songs full of juxtaposition and oxymoron. The ending of him singing Conservation Conversation faster and faster makes me think that ultimately he's saying a Conservation Conversation is an oxymoron; in order to have real conservation people have to take action not just talk about it.