Actually "surfing with a spoon" is a euphemistic Australian analogy for shooting heroin (typically the powder is mixed with water in a spoon, then heated, then injected). The song is about being stuck in a city, desperately wanting to leave and go surfing, but compensating with the self-destructive alternative: heroin. About the day-to-day drudgery of a 9-5 job keeping him from what he really wants to be doing, and what he does to get to a time when he CAN do what he wants. Some believe "surfing with a spoon" should be interpreted more literally as guys wishing their were surfing and thinking about it while using spoons to play-surf in soup/cereal/coffee, whatever (hey, I do this), but I lived in Australia and don't believe they would have used a heroin metaphor if they didn't mean it.
Actually "surfing with a spoon" is a euphemistic Australian analogy for shooting heroin (typically the powder is mixed with water in a spoon, then heated, then injected). The song is about being stuck in a city, desperately wanting to leave and go surfing, but compensating with the self-destructive alternative: heroin. About the day-to-day drudgery of a 9-5 job keeping him from what he really wants to be doing, and what he does to get to a time when he CAN do what he wants. Some believe "surfing with a spoon" should be interpreted more literally as guys wishing their were surfing and thinking about it while using spoons to play-surf in soup/cereal/coffee, whatever (hey, I do this), but I lived in Australia and don't believe they would have used a heroin metaphor if they didn't mean it.