This song has very strong environmental undertones eg:-
"Now you've bitten off the hand that feeds you" ie. destroyed the natural food sources in the environment
"Relax - abandon ship
Turn your back on Mother Nature" ie. giving up on preserving the environment.
And of course the song's title "When the River Runs Dry". The Murray-Darling River system is the lifeblood of three Australian states and it is literally running dry and becoming more saline as more and more water is sipohoned off for upstream farming at the expense of everything downstream.
This song has very strong environmental undertones eg:-
"Now you've bitten off the hand that feeds you" ie. destroyed the natural food sources in the environment
"Relax - abandon ship Turn your back on Mother Nature" ie. giving up on preserving the environment.
And of course the song's title "When the River Runs Dry". The Murray-Darling River system is the lifeblood of three Australian states and it is literally running dry and becoming more saline as more and more water is sipohoned off for upstream farming at the expense of everything downstream.