"We'll get crushed by the ocean but it will not get us wet" has been an uncontrollable montra for me all day. On the surface, its obvious meaning is that global warming's effect on the oceans will be catastrophic for the majority of the earth's human population (though the flooded cities' dead will get wet). Maybe it's a testament to our helplessness (the writer's ironic respect for the God he apparently doesn't believe in)?
And for the "orphaned sea"...Man is apparently at the highest evolutionary point in earth's history. Though terrestrial, he's treated the sea worse than the land (trash, human waste, genocidal fishing[though the land's not exactly cared for]).
Given the 10% of the time (1 time out of 10, everything is perfect for us all {Bukowski}) positive attitude of the writer, a reference to the 10% of our population that will survive in the event of every major catastrophy that likely will happen in the next century (natural distasters, famine, energy crises, loss of MAJOR cities due to global warming (New York, Los Angles, all of Florida (surprisingly given it's own song on this album), not even to mention Southeast Asia.
They manage to non-pretentiously make songs about every major concern of humanity, should you subscribe to this interpretation.
Maybe this is the real root of the drug culture's attachment to the writer's lyrics - they are saying things that we don't can't quite contemplate the full meaning of (Stars Are Projectors). If you've ever gotten too loaded on mushrooms (everytime I've even looked at a mushroom) you probably fully understand this.
"We'll get crushed by the ocean but it will not get us wet" has been an uncontrollable montra for me all day. On the surface, its obvious meaning is that global warming's effect on the oceans will be catastrophic for the majority of the earth's human population (though the flooded cities' dead will get wet). Maybe it's a testament to our helplessness (the writer's ironic respect for the God he apparently doesn't believe in)?
And for the "orphaned sea"...Man is apparently at the highest evolutionary point in earth's history. Though terrestrial, he's treated the sea worse than the land (trash, human waste, genocidal fishing[though the land's not exactly cared for]).
Given the 10% of the time (1 time out of 10, everything is perfect for us all {Bukowski}) positive attitude of the writer, a reference to the 10% of our population that will survive in the event of every major catastrophy that likely will happen in the next century (natural distasters, famine, energy crises, loss of MAJOR cities due to global warming (New York, Los Angles, all of Florida (surprisingly given it's own song on this album), not even to mention Southeast Asia.
They manage to non-pretentiously make songs about every major concern of humanity, should you subscribe to this interpretation.
Maybe this is the real root of the drug culture's attachment to the writer's lyrics - they are saying things that we don't can't quite contemplate the full meaning of (Stars Are Projectors). If you've ever gotten too loaded on mushrooms (everytime I've even looked at a mushroom) you probably fully understand this.