I think the title is probably a loose reference to "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
I think the song is calling out other musicians, especially those on the west coast, Seattle, etc., who might consider themselves very liberal with respect to issues like the environment. There is a huge amount of hypocrisy there and he's saying, in rather mocking and satirical tones, "try not to think about it how much it's hurting the environment for you to make music about things like saving the environment."
Kind of the same thing with the painter in the second verse. Another profession where the practitioners tend to think of themselves as rather liberal and environmentally conscious but are actually doing more than their fair share to damage the earth just like everyone else.
The irony, of course, is that he's doing the same thing. You can buy this song on the very vinyl he's talking about. He's admitting that he's part of that process... that he's jealous and vain and wasteful, but trying to at least be humble enough to recognize that he's just this ephemeral cog that's going to be decaying in the ground some day.
I think the title is probably a loose reference to "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
I think the song is calling out other musicians, especially those on the west coast, Seattle, etc., who might consider themselves very liberal with respect to issues like the environment. There is a huge amount of hypocrisy there and he's saying, in rather mocking and satirical tones, "try not to think about it how much it's hurting the environment for you to make music about things like saving the environment."
Kind of the same thing with the painter in the second verse. Another profession where the practitioners tend to think of themselves as rather liberal and environmentally conscious but are actually doing more than their fair share to damage the earth just like everyone else.
The irony, of course, is that he's doing the same thing. You can buy this song on the very vinyl he's talking about. He's admitting that he's part of that process... that he's jealous and vain and wasteful, but trying to at least be humble enough to recognize that he's just this ephemeral cog that's going to be decaying in the ground some day.