Makes me think of the Cardiff Giant, a famous hoax in 1869. George Hull hired people to sculpt a giant stone figure and buried it on his property. Then he hired some men to dig a well there, who then "discovered" the giant. Of course, this was in New York, not Ohio, but whatever.
It seems like the songwriter took various myths and stories about giants and melded them into this allegory about "meaningless war" and how, like the giants in the song, people tend to assume that they are indestructible and that things will forever continue to stay the way they are.
Makes me think of the Cardiff Giant, a famous hoax in 1869. George Hull hired people to sculpt a giant stone figure and buried it on his property. Then he hired some men to dig a well there, who then "discovered" the giant. Of course, this was in New York, not Ohio, but whatever.
It seems like the songwriter took various myths and stories about giants and melded them into this allegory about "meaningless war" and how, like the giants in the song, people tend to assume that they are indestructible and that things will forever continue to stay the way they are.