Ol' Sam is talkin' about aboriginal people in general. Brown skin, a reference to Wounded Knee, how business and the current state affairs undermined aborginal values and now that the world is falling apart because of these conditions (global warming), he's "taking back the city one sinner at a time" when people might actually start listening again to the saint.
Sam addresses underlying racial connotations of how much of the first nations have been corrupted with the distribution of "cheques" at the hands of Captain Industry.
Trust me, I can analyze this song to death and bring up other references, but I'll leave this to other Sam Roberts' listeners and hopefully, they'll take the message to heart before it's too late...
Ol' Sam is talkin' about aboriginal people in general. Brown skin, a reference to Wounded Knee, how business and the current state affairs undermined aborginal values and now that the world is falling apart because of these conditions (global warming), he's "taking back the city one sinner at a time" when people might actually start listening again to the saint. Sam addresses underlying racial connotations of how much of the first nations have been corrupted with the distribution of "cheques" at the hands of Captain Industry. Trust me, I can analyze this song to death and bring up other references, but I'll leave this to other Sam Roberts' listeners and hopefully, they'll take the message to heart before it's too late...