Busting Up a Starbux Lyrics

Lyric discussion by johnielsen08 

Cover art for Busting Up a Starbux lyrics by Mike Doughty

I'm not saying this song is religious at all but there are a few small lines that remind me of Bible passages

"this bitter drink" Matthew 27:34 "They gave him wine mixed with bitter drink"

"the water's red" Psalm 105:29 He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die.

"The end of the law" Romans 10:4 "Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes."

"each to each" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. T.S. Eliot, I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

Reading way into this but still random thoughts

Hmmm... this is a bit of a stretch. You cannot really take "each to each" as a quote to place against the bible. It's too general. I think most of these quotes you chose fall into that category:

"This bitter drink" -- he's specifically talking about coffee (it is, after all, called "Busting up a Starbucks"). But just about any drug, including alcohol & coffee, is bitter.

"The sky's ablaze, the see is too, THE WATER'S RED & the flame is blue" -- this is merely a hyperbole of environmentalist terrorists' claims. (For...