Crack the Big Sky Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Islebeback 

Cover art for Crack the Big Sky lyrics by Spock's Beard

This song I've tried to decipher and I think I've figured it out. The liberation game is the protagonist (here the US) went to the aid of a war torn country and we came to liberate the, (drop torch easy...scarred king and all his men). The rain seems to be a metaphor for humanitarian aid packages as they fall from sky like rain and the people were happy they were getting fed. WHat conflict was this- well I think the answer lies in "Lincoln's Lake" as the USS Abraham Lincoln was used in Somalia in operation restore hope. There society though didnt flourish as much as the west hoped if it was westernized and the following ruling powers almost as bad as last.