This might seem kind of obvious, but I think there's a possibility that this song is about the album itself. Ween rented out a house on the beach in New Jersey and stayed there for weeks to write until they finished the album. The little boy I think represents Ween, finding the Mollusk through inspiration by the sea: "does it emulate the ocean sound?" Yes, this album does.
The second verse is the tough part though, here's my best stab at it: "does it speaketh of the Trinity" I believe asks if this album feels divinely inspired. Because it is based on a creation of God (the sea) and because it includes some very grandiose music, I would say yes again, this album does (the exuberant synth solo near the end of this song is a good example of what sounds to me like divinely inspired music, it is an aural rendering of the beauty, joy, and wonder of life).
"Casting light at the sun with it's wandering eye" is the toughest nut to crack, my only guess is that the sun is almost like a God to men because it provides the light and energy to make life possible, and so the Mollusk is a reciprocal creation of that light, casting a reflection of life using music back at the life-giving creator.
The" three things that spur the Mollusk from the sand" is also a tough one, as the song only lists one, the "waking of all creatures that live on the land." I think this might be a tongue-in-cheek reference to the supposed "awakening" or "enlightenment" the listener will experience upon hearing the album. Ween probably doesn't actually believe that their music is as profound as all that, but given that this song is sort of a take-off of ELP, who came across as enormously self-important back in the prog era, I think this is part of the joke. Ween generally likes to screw with our heads for the sake of humor, so to leave the other two things unspoken is not a huge departure from their modus operandi, and makes the joke of mocking the pretentiousness of prog even funnier. If I had to guess what the other two parts of the Trinity are, it's Gene and Dean (making the Trinity Gene, Dean, and the listener).
The "wandering eye" could either refer to Ween's predilection towards emulating a diverse array of genres, or maybe just suggests that Dean and Gene are horn dogs (which wouldn't be a huge surprise if you consider the subject the subject matter of many of their songs).
Some of this analysis is potentially way off-base but this is the only way I can make sense of it. Who knows, it could mean nothing whatsoever.
This might seem kind of obvious, but I think there's a possibility that this song is about the album itself. Ween rented out a house on the beach in New Jersey and stayed there for weeks to write until they finished the album. The little boy I think represents Ween, finding the Mollusk through inspiration by the sea: "does it emulate the ocean sound?" Yes, this album does.
The second verse is the tough part though, here's my best stab at it: "does it speaketh of the Trinity" I believe asks if this album feels divinely inspired. Because it is based on a creation of God (the sea) and because it includes some very grandiose music, I would say yes again, this album does (the exuberant synth solo near the end of this song is a good example of what sounds to me like divinely inspired music, it is an aural rendering of the beauty, joy, and wonder of life).
"Casting light at the sun with it's wandering eye" is the toughest nut to crack, my only guess is that the sun is almost like a God to men because it provides the light and energy to make life possible, and so the Mollusk is a reciprocal creation of that light, casting a reflection of life using music back at the life-giving creator.
The" three things that spur the Mollusk from the sand" is also a tough one, as the song only lists one, the "waking of all creatures that live on the land." I think this might be a tongue-in-cheek reference to the supposed "awakening" or "enlightenment" the listener will experience upon hearing the album. Ween probably doesn't actually believe that their music is as profound as all that, but given that this song is sort of a take-off of ELP, who came across as enormously self-important back in the prog era, I think this is part of the joke. Ween generally likes to screw with our heads for the sake of humor, so to leave the other two things unspoken is not a huge departure from their modus operandi, and makes the joke of mocking the pretentiousness of prog even funnier. If I had to guess what the other two parts of the Trinity are, it's Gene and Dean (making the Trinity Gene, Dean, and the listener).
The "wandering eye" could either refer to Ween's predilection towards emulating a diverse array of genres, or maybe just suggests that Dean and Gene are horn dogs (which wouldn't be a huge surprise if you consider the subject the subject matter of many of their songs).
Some of this analysis is potentially way off-base but this is the only way I can make sense of it. Who knows, it could mean nothing whatsoever.