I've heard it's an active volcano.
And I think any research I did was after I finished the song.
So I really didn't know what I was talking about.
In fact, I was expecting it to be intact, like I saw on the pictures, 'cause I was trying
to do it for the video.
And I looked it up and it's actually no longer ... Because it did blow up, I think, in 1980.
I was on a business trip to Portland, Oregon.
I got back on Sunday, so I pretty much had to finish the writing and then do the song
and the video and all that by the following Tuesday.
So I had about 11 days.
So it was crunch time.
I mean I was quicker than I ever did a song.
It's a good music writing, song writing technique to write about something bad with a good sounding
melody, because if you can get people to feel good about something bad, then you're bulletproof
in life.
So that's just a nice sort of against the grain thing.
It's just nice to paint a picture that everyone is running away from the disaster, but it's
like, you know, let's see what's going on over there.
For the second verse you want another just another natural disaster to be parallel to
that.
So instead of doing a physical one, it was just nice to do a financial one.
I'm not sure what that means, but it raises a couple of questions.
Is it a good, was it a good day yesterday?
How good, which day is a good day?
The Stock Market's crashing, so you don't need the business suits.
You don't need to do business, you know, throw them away.
"And then slip into something more reasonable."
I've had an infatuation with the word "reasonable" probably ever since I saw Tim and Eric Reasonable
Shirts.
So I just love the word "reasonable."
It's just such a fun word to say.
I don't know what it means, but I know that it feels real floaty... Very slippy.
It's kind of a longer way of saying "my employees."
But the people ... I don't know.
It's just, super winding.
I just wanted to get, just once, just run away, just get lost.
That's kind of the theory with these bridges, it's just get, get lost and then find your way back.
We want to use the title just to kind of bring it back to reality here.
So yeah, what else do we have?
You know, the gift shop.
Actually I don't know if there's a gift shop.
I think someone told me there is a gift shop.
People like to argue about climate change.
I don't know.
After the climate change discussion, it sounds like we're almost going on the blimp to escape.
This is sort of a special feeling thing to me.
Just sort of the feeling of escaping from apocalyptic scenarios.
There's something that feels very nice to me about just the world is blowing up but
we're safe in some kind of escape vehicle.
Mount St. Helens is feeling crazy.
That's the stepping stone and adventurous.
And then we land back in the key of G.
So that's just the way we needed to kind of go to kind of stepping stone back into the
original key and the lyrics I can't tell you where they came from in that case.
There's a Bob Dylan song.
I've hardly listened to any Bob Dylan, but there is a Bob Dylan, I think it's called,
"Hard Rain is going to Fall."
And in the verses of that, he is like ... it's like list form, but I feel like it's going
diagonally.
I was sort of trying to do that.
So that the lines don't quite connect to the previous, but it's like diagonal motion.
I don't know if that makes any sense.