Staring at the Sun

What an intense kickass tune! I love the "stun" guitar warbling along playing notes at 8,500 meters per second, and the slidey grunge bass underneath it all. This second, pre-grunge neo-psychedelic phase of the Angry Samoans is so underappreciated.

As for the song meaning, there is a long tradition of using fire and sun imagery as a metaphor for temptation and overreaching or overdoing it, eg playing with fire gets you burned, the flight of Icarus, etc. The sun provides light which allows us to see, but paradoxically staring at it makes one blind.

In the song, our narrator says that when they were young they didn't know the dangers of the sun. Whatever foolishness they did involving the sun, now it seems they're far from it, stuck on the 85th planet away (this would have to be in the future since we haven't discovered 85 planets yet, or another solar system), many thousands of miles out in space, freezing, and staring at the sun, which comes out only twice each day, maybe wishing they were back home or trying to think of some way to get back.

On this record and "STP not LSD" the Samoans turned from hardcore in a very psychedelic direction, so my guess is this is some metaphor for taking too many hallucinogens and the resulting warped state of mind. Or it could be a science fiction song, or about something else entirely, you decide!