It's about how we're all driving around in the sad punk known as the dinosaur. While there are plenty of theories, there isn't really a "smoking gun" for what caused dinosaurs to die altogether. But we still "smell smoke" from cars which run on fossil fuels and drive on roads of tar, despite dinosaurs being extinct.
"and evolving from the sea
would no be too much time for me
to walk beside you in the sun"
This is a theme throughout Charles' music. Evolution and our aquatic fraternity.
I think he ends the song with "I read something about a SON of a gun named extinction" which could be commenting on environmental factors that might lead to our own extinction. Like, with the dinosaurs, there was a "gun named extinction" that wiped them out. Now he has read something about "a son of a gun named extinction" or the next big live wiper-outer.
@edbanky If you ever find it (and I can't remember the magazine I read it in), there's an interview Siouxsie Sioux made a comment about the album and 'The Sad Punk' song in 1992. It was apparently to do with Kim Deal telling her what the song was really about. It was very much nothing like what people seem to think it's about in these comments, either. And I was utterly impressed
@edbanky If you ever find it (and I can't remember the magazine I read it in), there's an interview Siouxsie Sioux made a comment about the album and 'The Sad Punk' song in 1992. It was apparently to do with Kim Deal telling her what the song was really about. It was very much nothing like what people seem to think it's about in these comments, either. And I was utterly impressed
It's about how we're all driving around in the sad punk known as the dinosaur. While there are plenty of theories, there isn't really a "smoking gun" for what caused dinosaurs to die altogether. But we still "smell smoke" from cars which run on fossil fuels and drive on roads of tar, despite dinosaurs being extinct.
"and evolving from the sea would no be too much time for me to walk beside you in the sun"
This is a theme throughout Charles' music. Evolution and our aquatic fraternity.
I think he ends the song with "I read something about a SON of a gun named extinction" which could be commenting on environmental factors that might lead to our own extinction. Like, with the dinosaurs, there was a "gun named extinction" that wiped them out. Now he has read something about "a son of a gun named extinction" or the next big live wiper-outer.
@edbanky If you ever find it (and I can't remember the magazine I read it in), there's an interview Siouxsie Sioux made a comment about the album and 'The Sad Punk' song in 1992. It was apparently to do with Kim Deal telling her what the song was really about. It was very much nothing like what people seem to think it's about in these comments, either. And I was utterly impressed
@edbanky If you ever find it (and I can't remember the magazine I read it in), there's an interview Siouxsie Sioux made a comment about the album and 'The Sad Punk' song in 1992. It was apparently to do with Kim Deal telling her what the song was really about. It was very much nothing like what people seem to think it's about in these comments, either. And I was utterly impressed