The screamingly obvious thing in this lyrics is that the singer is NOT making the best of what's still around, or at least it's a poor set of options – he's adopted a life of unspeakable isolation, and there's no indication that that isn't by choice. He gets his food from cans, his sex from watching one porn video over and over, and his only stated human contact is from listening to music and watching videos, and he "ain't been out for years."
Either this man has chosen a hermit's lifestyle by choice or the world literally has run down in some unstated way – is he living in a bunker or fallout shelter in a post-apocalyptic world? If the radio is truly only playing static, then perhaps he's living in the ruins of a world destroyed by nuclear war or some other catastrophe, and his pitiful surroundings are the best he has available. But if human civilization and its handiwork have all fallen apart, then where is the electricity for all of his appliances coming from?
This is either or both of a warning about isolation in material things and/or the threat of nuclear war – both are things that Sting has spoken out about in other songs. The canned food makes me suppose that the nuclear war hypothesis is the correct one, and the rain is perhaps a reference to fallout. And then the detail about his electricity is nitpicking, or the lyrics spare us boring details about his personal generator.
The screamingly obvious thing in this lyrics is that the singer is NOT making the best of what's still around, or at least it's a poor set of options – he's adopted a life of unspeakable isolation, and there's no indication that that isn't by choice. He gets his food from cans, his sex from watching one porn video over and over, and his only stated human contact is from listening to music and watching videos, and he "ain't been out for years."
Either this man has chosen a hermit's lifestyle by choice or the world literally has run down in some unstated way – is he living in a bunker or fallout shelter in a post-apocalyptic world? If the radio is truly only playing static, then perhaps he's living in the ruins of a world destroyed by nuclear war or some other catastrophe, and his pitiful surroundings are the best he has available. But if human civilization and its handiwork have all fallen apart, then where is the electricity for all of his appliances coming from?
This is either or both of a warning about isolation in material things and/or the threat of nuclear war – both are things that Sting has spoken out about in other songs. The canned food makes me suppose that the nuclear war hypothesis is the correct one, and the rain is perhaps a reference to fallout. And then the detail about his electricity is nitpicking, or the lyrics spare us boring details about his personal generator.