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The New Pornographers – All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth Lyrics 17 years ago
I think this song is about the difference between primitive and modern survival. It suggests that modern man has gone, in a way, beyond the work of god, and turned the art of keeping alive amidst the wonders of nature into "survival gone too far" : something to complicated and caught up in all the trappings of money, work, possesions, etc.

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