The Animal World Lyrics

Lyric discussion by PairOFish 

Cover art for The Animal World lyrics by Grandaddy

I guess there's an old movie called "The Animal World" about dinosaurs. And the end of the song has dinosaur/animal sounds. I wouldn't be surprised of Jason grew up watching it, or is at least a fan of the ancient films of the days of old.

Maybe the other meaning of the song is the general theme of death/ending? Metaphorically of how cats go away to die, and how the band was ending. And maybe how earth is dying, he sings "joy to the world" in kind of an ironic depressed way, since we're killing our planet. And maybe it'll start over with another age of dinosaurs, or maybe we'll just be history/extinct like the dinosaurs? Something to think about :/

Any ideas on what the "8... 9..." at the beginning and the "Easy fella" at the end mean? I think of humans crash-landing in a land of dinosaurs, like that Twilight Zone episode? The whole sound going throughout the song is just like a jetliner going down. They countdown for liftoff? Then crash and see a dangerous jurassic animal and say "Easy fella" ?