Does anyone else get a sort of biblical end-o'-the-world feel from this song? "That I had not become a cephalopod I still had legs and arms" seems to suggest a kind of transformation like the one Milton describes coming over Lucifer and his underlings in Paradise Lost (although I don't think they were transformed into squids and mollusks).
Also, with the less confident (read: meek) waking up to find themselves in charge (read: inheriting the earth), among a number of other references, it sounds to me like Bird is trying to describe someone's surprise at the apocalypse not happening... perhaps criticizing the notion of the apocalypse? It all sounds kind of grandiose, when I put it like that....
Does anyone else get a sort of biblical end-o'-the-world feel from this song? "That I had not become a cephalopod I still had legs and arms" seems to suggest a kind of transformation like the one Milton describes coming over Lucifer and his underlings in Paradise Lost (although I don't think they were transformed into squids and mollusks). Also, with the less confident (read: meek) waking up to find themselves in charge (read: inheriting the earth), among a number of other references, it sounds to me like Bird is trying to describe someone's surprise at the apocalypse not happening... perhaps criticizing the notion of the apocalypse? It all sounds kind of grandiose, when I put it like that....