To the extent that Europa and the Pirate Twins was about a real girl, it seems that she was actually from an Eastern European country. So when the Iron Curtain fell in 1989-91, it's natural that Dolby's thoughts may have turned to her and inspired a sequel. It's a song full of hope after the end of the Cold War: the lines "Joey's gone and Georgie's gone ... found a crowbar and a drill, headed for the Berlin Wall" refer to (Joey) Stalin and (Georgie) Washington (or maybe H.W. Bush), which makes it an odd sort of spiritual relative of Jesus Jones' "Right Here, Right Now." Too bad the world only woke up from history for a few short years before getting right back to sleep.
There's also a lot of personification of Europe itself in Dolby's songs (see also "The Flat Earth") and Europa herself may be more broadly interpreted as representing the continent reunited after decades of division.
To the extent that Europa and the Pirate Twins was about a real girl, it seems that she was actually from an Eastern European country. So when the Iron Curtain fell in 1989-91, it's natural that Dolby's thoughts may have turned to her and inspired a sequel. It's a song full of hope after the end of the Cold War: the lines "Joey's gone and Georgie's gone ... found a crowbar and a drill, headed for the Berlin Wall" refer to (Joey) Stalin and (Georgie) Washington (or maybe H.W. Bush), which makes it an odd sort of spiritual relative of Jesus Jones' "Right Here, Right Now." Too bad the world only woke up from history for a few short years before getting right back to sleep.
There's also a lot of personification of Europe itself in Dolby's songs (see also "The Flat Earth") and Europa herself may be more broadly interpreted as representing the continent reunited after decades of division.