Gathering Pebbles Lyrics

Lyric discussion by orendt 

Cover art for Gathering Pebbles lyrics by Dredg

I read that the original name of this song was Waterbourne, after the movie that dredg did the soundtrack to. The movie was about how nobody could drink the water because it was poisoned and everyone was freaking out about it (more or less). Anyway, on traversingboard, it is mentioned that the gathering of pebbles has something to do with childlike behavior, though I cannot actually determine what they mean by "gathering pebbles."

I guess you are wrong, the one previously calle waterbourne was "Information".

It's a reference to a fable about a crow cleverly dropping rocks into a vessel to raise the water level until it became able to drink, the moral being the familiar "Necessity is the mother of invention."

Interestingly, recent research has confirmed that corvidae do do that; they're really terrifyingly intelligent: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1204770/Rook-gets-worm-using-pebbles-water-raise-reach.html