Looking at the real lyrics, the first few lines are really puzzling.
Based on the fact that this song seems based around evolution, maybe the first few lines mean this:
These lines deal with what humans have done in the case of things that give them pleasure. The example used is for food, which obviously gives people pleasure.
Food provides nutrition, which is the reason that it provides pleasure to people. We receive feelings of pleasure because from the perspective of evolution, which shaped our bodies and minds, it is important for us to stay alive, live out our lives, and breed.
People have developed methods of eating that alter this basic system. For us, we may eat food to experience the pleasure that it gives us, without considering the nutritional content. While it is absolutely true that food with a lot of calories taste the best, it is not good for our health to consume things that contain a whole lot of sugar and fat. When we eat something like this, such as a donut, we are eating it mostly because of the pleasure eating it provides, disregarding what it is doing to our body.
In the case of the purpose of seasoning food, it actually is simpler. Seasoning on meat for example provides virtually no additional calories, but it makes it taste much better, thus making it more pleasurable. If one were to only "suck all seasoning off" as the song says, you would be eating the part of the food that is providing the most pleasure, while ignoring the whole purpose of food, which is to provide nutrition.
So basically, what the first two lines mean is that people have changed such that they do things that originally were pleasurable because they increased their evolutionary fitness, but they do them in such a way that they only get the pleasure from something, and it no longer does anything for people from an evolutionary perspective.
Looking at the real lyrics, the first few lines are really puzzling.
Based on the fact that this song seems based around evolution, maybe the first few lines mean this:
These lines deal with what humans have done in the case of things that give them pleasure. The example used is for food, which obviously gives people pleasure. Food provides nutrition, which is the reason that it provides pleasure to people. We receive feelings of pleasure because from the perspective of evolution, which shaped our bodies and minds, it is important for us to stay alive, live out our lives, and breed.
People have developed methods of eating that alter this basic system. For us, we may eat food to experience the pleasure that it gives us, without considering the nutritional content. While it is absolutely true that food with a lot of calories taste the best, it is not good for our health to consume things that contain a whole lot of sugar and fat. When we eat something like this, such as a donut, we are eating it mostly because of the pleasure eating it provides, disregarding what it is doing to our body.
In the case of the purpose of seasoning food, it actually is simpler. Seasoning on meat for example provides virtually no additional calories, but it makes it taste much better, thus making it more pleasurable. If one were to only "suck all seasoning off" as the song says, you would be eating the part of the food that is providing the most pleasure, while ignoring the whole purpose of food, which is to provide nutrition.
So basically, what the first two lines mean is that people have changed such that they do things that originally were pleasurable because they increased their evolutionary fitness, but they do them in such a way that they only get the pleasure from something, and it no longer does anything for people from an evolutionary perspective.