All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth Lyrics

Lyric discussion by divinehammer 

Cover art for All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth lyrics by New Pornographers, The

I think this song is about the difference between primitive and modern survival. It suggests that modern man has gone, in a way, beyond the work of god, and turned the art of keeping alive amidst the wonders of nature into "survival gone too far" : something to complicated and caught up in all the trappings of money, work, possesions, etc.