Yep, and it's also referring to something else. "Rape, kill, and tear asunder, chop the forest, plow it under" refers to deforestation and the degradation of land.
"Highways scar the mountainsides, buildings to the sky...Houses stand in endless rows, sea to shining sea"
refers to the constant use of Earth's resources and beauty than it can reproduce. Every time I see a subdivision going up, I think of this song because the people from St. Louis (across the river. "Across the sea, there came a multitude...") come to live here and building companies that also have factories bring them to this paradise also decide to tear down trees to make way for land and if the land's not perfect, they degrade it even more with their cheap high-income housing and mansions. Makes me sick.
Yep, and it's also referring to something else. "Rape, kill, and tear asunder, chop the forest, plow it under" refers to deforestation and the degradation of land.
"Highways scar the mountainsides, buildings to the sky...Houses stand in endless rows, sea to shining sea" refers to the constant use of Earth's resources and beauty than it can reproduce. Every time I see a subdivision going up, I think of this song because the people from St. Louis (across the river. "Across the sea, there came a multitude...") come to live here and building companies that also have factories bring them to this paradise also decide to tear down trees to make way for land and if the land's not perfect, they degrade it even more with their cheap high-income housing and mansions. Makes me sick.