Considering the overall theme of this album, I think the lyrics are literally about unhealthy, earth-destroying diets (agricultural-based = destruction of topsoil and the conversion of the living planet into a desert), fast food, and unnatural processing.
People don't care that the (terrible) food they are (quite literally) addicted to can only exist at a cost to the planet. Overfishing for cheap fish (destroys ocean), factory farmed meat (destroys animals right to natural and trauma-free life), GMO'd grains on monocultural plots (that destroy topsoil, and required the removal of the ecosystem that existed there prior). Our food industries are terribly, terribly destructive, and "fast food", especially, comes at a cost.
I agree completely. I also think Damon is being very subtle, but mocking our culture. Fast food is an icon of over-indulgent, selfish, modern behavior. We are all in such a rush to get things done, we lose the value of it all. Our rushed, hectic, unhealthy lifestyles are ruining exactly what we mean to enjoy.
I agree completely. I also think Damon is being very subtle, but mocking our culture. Fast food is an icon of over-indulgent, selfish, modern behavior. We are all in such a rush to get things done, we lose the value of it all. Our rushed, hectic, unhealthy lifestyles are ruining exactly what we mean to enjoy.
Considering the overall theme of this album, I think the lyrics are literally about unhealthy, earth-destroying diets (agricultural-based = destruction of topsoil and the conversion of the living planet into a desert), fast food, and unnatural processing.
People don't care that the (terrible) food they are (quite literally) addicted to can only exist at a cost to the planet. Overfishing for cheap fish (destroys ocean), factory farmed meat (destroys animals right to natural and trauma-free life), GMO'd grains on monocultural plots (that destroy topsoil, and required the removal of the ecosystem that existed there prior). Our food industries are terribly, terribly destructive, and "fast food", especially, comes at a cost.
I agree completely. I also think Damon is being very subtle, but mocking our culture. Fast food is an icon of over-indulgent, selfish, modern behavior. We are all in such a rush to get things done, we lose the value of it all. Our rushed, hectic, unhealthy lifestyles are ruining exactly what we mean to enjoy.
I agree completely. I also think Damon is being very subtle, but mocking our culture. Fast food is an icon of over-indulgent, selfish, modern behavior. We are all in such a rush to get things done, we lose the value of it all. Our rushed, hectic, unhealthy lifestyles are ruining exactly what we mean to enjoy.