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Midlake – they cannot let it expand Lyrics 15 years ago
I think this song is a criticism about the destruction of natural habitats that humans have for long been very prolific at.

The last phrase is clearly a resignation and acceptance that he can do nothing about it, that he feels completely powerless to oppose the much larger forces that govern those changes that he views unfit.

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