| Primus – Pudding Time Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[PuddinTaine:30717] Definitely it refers to Les's anger over SanFran Bay (specifically San Pablo Bay) being destroyed. Both by dumping and by water diversion, which he specifically mentions in Toys. I picture a little girl in the Inland Empire getting a brand new bike, while their sprawling suburbia is fed by water diverted from the San Joaquin Delta through the Aqueduct, where it should by feeding the Bay. | |
| Primus – Pudding Time Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Primus hail from El Sobrante, CA on San Pablo Bay. They have seen the destruction of the estuary waters, and have several lyrics about water diversion ruining the delicate ecology of San Francisco Bay. In "The Toys Go Winding Down": We used to pull the strippers out of San Pablo Bay / Now the delta waters go down So. Cal. / And the strippers start to fade away / It's pudding time! I have thought for a while that the "pudding" in "pudding time" referred to the mud left behind when the waters receded. So, while the song is overtly about commercialism and greed, I think there's also resentment towards commercial and greedy Southern California as they grow and sprawl and demand more water from other parts of the state. As Mark Twain is rumored to have said, “Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting.” |
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