Lyric discussion by gschoener1 

Cover art for Dirty Paws lyrics by Of Monsters And Men

I think that this song is about the war between mother nature and us humans. The son is most likely represents us humans. Mowing the lawn we are destroying our land. The rest of the song describes the animals and bugs mother nature used to fight back against us humans (we are the bees). "The forest that once was green" The land we've destroyed trying to please ourselves. In the end mother nature wins and destroys us, the bees.

My Interpretation

Sorry about the grammatical mistakes I made, I wrote this in a rush.

THANK YOU! finally someone who gets it. all these other people are funny with their comments. war between humans and mother nature. maybe we are the beasts with the four dirty paws...xo

I agree! First thing that popped into my mind was a story of the struggle between humans and mother nature :)