The last stanza, about sitting home in LA watching old Cronkite, is obviously about how we become inured to the global tragedies played out on the nightly news.
The song itself, updated for more modern times, seems about the Port Royal earthquake that destroyed that entire city and left it largely forgotten in modern times.
The last stanza, about sitting home in LA watching old Cronkite, is obviously about how we become inured to the global tragedies played out on the nightly news.
The song itself, updated for more modern times, seems about the Port Royal earthquake that destroyed that entire city and left it largely forgotten in modern times.