There were at least two occasions when American Marines invaded Nicaragua, and one of them, in 1912, started at a port town called "Bluefields." That's the part of the song that Jon Anderson is signing about, and everything else the rikdad said about that part of the song fits in just right.
But Trevor's lines seem to be about something else entirely. Trevor is singing about sitting on a beach in a car with a girl and trying to get laid, but I think the twist is that the car is parked on the beach at Bluefields, years later after the amphibious assault. "We sat for hours on the crimson sand, he sings. People died there years ago, and now Trevor is basically singing about trying to the most life-affirming thing that a person can do, in that same spot where people died.
There were at least two occasions when American Marines invaded Nicaragua, and one of them, in 1912, started at a port town called "Bluefields." That's the part of the song that Jon Anderson is signing about, and everything else the rikdad said about that part of the song fits in just right.
But Trevor's lines seem to be about something else entirely. Trevor is singing about sitting on a beach in a car with a girl and trying to get laid, but I think the twist is that the car is parked on the beach at Bluefields, years later after the amphibious assault. "We sat for hours on the crimson sand, he sings. People died there years ago, and now Trevor is basically singing about trying to the most life-affirming thing that a person can do, in that same spot where people died.
Shoot High, Aim Low indeed.