Lyric discussion by sashiki 

This is what a "blues" should sound nowadays. Nick has talked about this one as the depiction of the general decay and confusion ruling our reality nowadays (referring also to Hannah Montana, which is the only discording note, she's there to contrast with naivety and unaware calm all the chaos around). Of course the decay is especially spiritual; I believe that the Higgs Boson fits because its revelation in a way (in a very collateral, poetic way) denies the existence of a God. A world in which God is denied, all kind of stuff happen, some other stuff are justified by it (black babies dying, Marthin Luther shot dead, Robert Johnson dead with any given credit -- basically there's just Lucipher hanging around like it's nothing). There's also a sarcastic look at science, on the other side, when he goes like: "here comes the missionary" -- maybe a doctor without borders carrying vaccines and knownledge like everything is under control, and everything can be explained. But in a messed up world without any God, nothing can ever make sense and 2+2 always make a 5. So in the end, Cave suggests he's just accepting the way things roll and flow; we're in a mess, no matter what they discover in Geneva. He does this long journey thro the whole human chaos but ends up defied in his basement patio, just like Miley Cirus in a way. But at the end of the day who cares? Who cares what the future brings?

You broke it down precisely as I have. I wish I had friends like you who would pick songs apart with me, haha.

@sashiki curious what your thoughts are now, in 2022. Especially regarding your "doctors w/out borders" interpretation of those particular lyrics. One verse for sure is referring to monkey pox and my goodness, almost the entire song lyrics have an entirely different meaning to me than they would have in 2013. Meta is his "simulated rain". I could go on and on but I'm thinking you and most others can pinpoint them, yourselves.

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