Katrina

I know Stipe said at the gigs from round this era that it's to do with Katrina and how he's sick of politicians telling him what to fear when he should be the one to decide.

However, I've always viewed this song as one which puts aside politicial beliefs to focus on the disaster and the help dished out to save people.

"If the storm doesn't kill me, the government will, I've got to get that out of my head" is like someone who thinks the government is conspiring against them but decides to leave it be when they see what is being done for them in terms of aid. Sort of 'maybe the government isn't that bad after all'.

"And so there are claims forgiven, and so there are things that are gone" - first line seems to put aside differences in political opinion, second line seems to acknowledge Hurricane Katrina has destroyed the landscape.

Also, "and some things fall to the wayside" could have that same political bent to them.

So it's not necessarily a 'I forgive the government' song but perhaps a song where political opinion is put to the side and how people can come together in times of harrowing disaster like this. After that it's back to the different ideals clashing.

Simon :)

Yup, pretty evident right from the first line.

yes its about hurricane katrina; the last verse perhaps suggesting that it is the memory of the disaster that has fallen by the wayside, or maybe simply the rebiuilding of new orleans itself.

It is interesting they mention Galveston (TX) because it too suffered a devastating Hurricane on September 8, 1900. Over 6000 men women and children died in the storm, but the island rebuilt.

They actually mentioned at the show that they talked to a few survivors of Katrina for "more detail" with this song when they played on friday.

its even crazier now that Galveston was obliterated a few months back. and even parts of Houston.

I like to think of this as a song about the land that Houston inhabits... I imagine a city that is born from the wake of Houston's storm-picked bones, built to last, wrought from stone and vertically ascending amidst the old live oaks that belong in the dirt of the bayous. Music bounces around the varied angles of its highly graffiti'd towers, muffled by the humid gardens in which fat stray cats roam, and quiet corners can be found to watch the grey clouds laden with moisture and violet energy. Houston may be a shit town, but it is also a beautiful place.

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