Just From Chevron

Fairly certain it's about the Chevron oil explosions.

I read in an interview that it's supposed to be set up like a Greek tragedy, with the girls singing the part of the chorus at the beginning and end (framing the story) and that the song in general is meant to be critical of the oil industry.

This song sounds great live, probably my favorite of the album.

There's a little bit about it in the Pitchfork interview:

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8883-dirty-projectors/

Corrected lyrics:

Where she collapses into the shore, pump her like product and ask her for more.

There a man lay dying in ice, gasket had busted and pinned him like a vice.

As the sun sank into repose, a friend knelt and listened to his dying words as her froze.

"Tell my love, 'Don't mourn too intense,' I'm going down to a great good expense.

Now all the air is quiet and still. Wish I was back home on that knell in the hill.

Don't think I won't try, when I close my eyes. Wherever the people will drive, that's where I will survive.

All of my friends, my enemies too, live in the shadows of dirtiest fuel --

burns the land and its people to ruin, while wind's always whistlin' an infinite tune.

Don't think I won't try, when I close my eyes. Wherever the people will drive, I swear I will be live."

"Now, so long," he whispered so faint, closing his eyelids and his face turning gray.

When the workers cleaned up the spill, sent the man home to his knell in the hill.