Lyric discussion by Trumptyte 

The song references that self-preservation is natural in all people, especially the oppressed. Therefore the oppression causes some of the reactions of the people during the time. America had always persecuted the people and Mother Nature had begun to unleash karma on the "powers that be" in ways such as "Tricky Dick" and the Watergate Scandal. The album came out after some of the early stages of the scandal. Nixon's war on crime had taken a to on the impoverished and Mother Nature was providing payback..... "Do yaw see my point?"

@Trumptyte ....toll on the impoverished

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