Raising your thumb to the sky, as Fallout has brought to many peoples' attention, is a tactic to test whether or not you are in the blast radius of a nuclear bomb. I think the song is about humanity looking at all the war and destruction it has caused in the name of peace, but only a few high up people are reveling in that peace, while the rest are left to rot away.
"I'd make a decision if granted the privilege, but I'm afraid my taste is unrefined
And no one likes cheap wine"
The one's left to rot would like to have positions of power to fix the issues, but they are hopeless because they do not believe they have the skills to productively undo the issues... taste us unrefined.
When the clouds kiss your eye
Shadows stain on the high-rise
Raise your thumb to the sky
Fossilize
Upon standing there, as the radiation blast hits you. Shadow stain: people's shadows where etched into building in Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the A-bombs dropped. Fossilize: this is imagery similar to Pompeii, people fossilized by the immediate destruction brought on by the volcano.
@E4Ducky To add: perhaps it is a song about realizing that the elite have already won and we are merely circling the drain. They are in a Sunny Disposition. Sunny is also key here because it helps support the nuclear imagery. Sunshine units is a measurement used in nuclear radiation.
@E4Ducky To add: perhaps it is a song about realizing that the elite have already won and we are merely circling the drain. They are in a Sunny Disposition. Sunny is also key here because it helps support the nuclear imagery. Sunshine units is a measurement used in nuclear radiation.
Raising your thumb to the sky, as Fallout has brought to many peoples' attention, is a tactic to test whether or not you are in the blast radius of a nuclear bomb. I think the song is about humanity looking at all the war and destruction it has caused in the name of peace, but only a few high up people are reveling in that peace, while the rest are left to rot away.
"I'd make a decision if granted the privilege, but I'm afraid my taste is unrefined And no one likes cheap wine"
The one's left to rot would like to have positions of power to fix the issues, but they are hopeless because they do not believe they have the skills to productively undo the issues... taste us unrefined.
When the clouds kiss your eye Shadows stain on the high-rise Raise your thumb to the sky Fossilize
Upon standing there, as the radiation blast hits you. Shadow stain: people's shadows where etched into building in Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the A-bombs dropped. Fossilize: this is imagery similar to Pompeii, people fossilized by the immediate destruction brought on by the volcano.
@E4Ducky To add: perhaps it is a song about realizing that the elite have already won and we are merely circling the drain. They are in a Sunny Disposition. Sunny is also key here because it helps support the nuclear imagery. Sunshine units is a measurement used in nuclear radiation.
@E4Ducky To add: perhaps it is a song about realizing that the elite have already won and we are merely circling the drain. They are in a Sunny Disposition. Sunny is also key here because it helps support the nuclear imagery. Sunshine units is a measurement used in nuclear radiation.