This song, like virtually everything else on this haunting and exceptional album, is about the sad horror of man's cruelty to nature and the world and the apocalyptic end that awaits the world as a result. The first verse is about a hunter killing an animal (the slaughter of a tiger is used in the lyrics of the next song on the album, Home Life). The second is probably about a whale but is integrated as pointed out with the image of Leviathan, bound and slowly dying - a bit like the natural world as a result of man's selfish cruelty. Heavy, huh!?
This song, like virtually everything else on this haunting and exceptional album, is about the sad horror of man's cruelty to nature and the world and the apocalyptic end that awaits the world as a result. The first verse is about a hunter killing an animal (the slaughter of a tiger is used in the lyrics of the next song on the album, Home Life). The second is probably about a whale but is integrated as pointed out with the image of Leviathan, bound and slowly dying - a bit like the natural world as a result of man's selfish cruelty. Heavy, huh!?