Lyric discussion by capitan 

The mind of the universe, I think, is all that exists, or God if you will. All that exists has dark things, maggots if you will. Everyone is aware of dark things, the Vietnam War, Racism, other things. A peotic way of saying you experienced the dark things in existence is saying, "I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe." For those who follow the buddhist or hindu type stuff that many were into in the 60's, one of the things that is talked about is if you get wrapped up in the negativity then it will bring you down. So you need "rise above it all or drown in ..."

The mother earth is pregnant for the third time thing is why I came to write this. There is a theory that humanity has gone through three major cycles, we are now in the third. The first two cycles mother earth had stillborns, maybe this time she can give birth to an enlightend humanity.

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