i doubt the blackwater as a defence company idea. in my mind blackwater is an omen of doom which the songs lyrics feature thoughout.
'black birds singing and fish floating on the sea'
black birds, crows and ravens that feed on dead flesh always show up before a massive battle or storm. fish floating on the sea, not IN the sea but on it, floating becasue theyre dead.
'No horizon is obscured by the clouds
While the bells of the buoys all rang in harmony'
=stillness
'Settlements make nary a sound'
'Build a keep and dig a moat,'
=fortify and prepair
the swollen goat is the blast tyrants flying ship if you look at the album art. FLYING ship, hence 'barnacles barking at the sun' and also...
'The governor he been long gone, anchor dropped on his front lawn'
blast tyrant has laid anchor in the local goverments front lawn first, so he ran for the hills
'Can you hear the fife and drums'
both instruments traditionally used for colonial armies marching to war
'Bury your treasure, burn your crops'
prepair/run
albertorss, burdon, the hooker on the shore, whore of babylon. the album is full of biblical referances so this is plausable.
Ain't no chance, so don't you try, now everybody got to die
all of the above.
Also of note is that Clutch is from Maryland, and their lyrics are intertwined with the natural world in many of their songs. Blackwater is a National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland about 80 miles south of Annapolis, and I have read several articles about how it is being reclaimed by the sea due to the rise in sea levels caused by global warming. I have even been there. (Lots of blackbirds singing, aand there are ringing buoys in the bay...did not see any fish floating on the sea, though.) One of the old governors of Maryland...
Also of note is that Clutch is from Maryland, and their lyrics are intertwined with the natural world in many of their songs. Blackwater is a National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland about 80 miles south of Annapolis, and I have read several articles about how it is being reclaimed by the sea due to the rise in sea levels caused by global warming. I have even been there. (Lots of blackbirds singing, aand there are ringing buoys in the bay...did not see any fish floating on the sea, though.) One of the old governors of Maryland had a home there, and it was an historic site until it was eventually destroyed by floodwater tides. "The governor, he been long gone; anchor dropped on his front lawn" Blackwater is sinking as black water rises, and it ain't gonna stop. I have no proof this is the meaning, and I think the references to the Blackwater Company are also most definitely relevant, but still, this is the sort of multidimensional lyric I have come to expect and treasure from Mr. Fallon.
i doubt the blackwater as a defence company idea. in my mind blackwater is an omen of doom which the songs lyrics feature thoughout. 'black birds singing and fish floating on the sea' black birds, crows and ravens that feed on dead flesh always show up before a massive battle or storm. fish floating on the sea, not IN the sea but on it, floating becasue theyre dead. 'No horizon is obscured by the clouds While the bells of the buoys all rang in harmony' =stillness 'Settlements make nary a sound' 'Build a keep and dig a moat,' =fortify and prepair the swollen goat is the blast tyrants flying ship if you look at the album art. FLYING ship, hence 'barnacles barking at the sun' and also... 'The governor he been long gone, anchor dropped on his front lawn' blast tyrant has laid anchor in the local goverments front lawn first, so he ran for the hills 'Can you hear the fife and drums' both instruments traditionally used for colonial armies marching to war 'Bury your treasure, burn your crops' prepair/run albertorss, burdon, the hooker on the shore, whore of babylon. the album is full of biblical referances so this is plausable. Ain't no chance, so don't you try, now everybody got to die all of the above.
Also of note is that Clutch is from Maryland, and their lyrics are intertwined with the natural world in many of their songs. Blackwater is a National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland about 80 miles south of Annapolis, and I have read several articles about how it is being reclaimed by the sea due to the rise in sea levels caused by global warming. I have even been there. (Lots of blackbirds singing, aand there are ringing buoys in the bay...did not see any fish floating on the sea, though.) One of the old governors of Maryland...
Also of note is that Clutch is from Maryland, and their lyrics are intertwined with the natural world in many of their songs. Blackwater is a National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland about 80 miles south of Annapolis, and I have read several articles about how it is being reclaimed by the sea due to the rise in sea levels caused by global warming. I have even been there. (Lots of blackbirds singing, aand there are ringing buoys in the bay...did not see any fish floating on the sea, though.) One of the old governors of Maryland had a home there, and it was an historic site until it was eventually destroyed by floodwater tides. "The governor, he been long gone; anchor dropped on his front lawn" Blackwater is sinking as black water rises, and it ain't gonna stop. I have no proof this is the meaning, and I think the references to the Blackwater Company are also most definitely relevant, but still, this is the sort of multidimensional lyric I have come to expect and treasure from Mr. Fallon.