Yeah, I’ve heard the nuclear interpretation from there. The number still could have a meaning tho…
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themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m going to go out on a limb and say, Was (Not Was) did not fact-check their lyrics while writing Walk the Dinosaur. The whole song is basically an acid trip stream of barely-consciousness. One of the writers has said it was about nuclear armageddon, so there’s that.
Elvis landed in a rocket ship
Healed a couple of lepers and disappeared.
But where was his beard?
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
fubo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
To be clear, it was the '80s. Everything was about nuclear Armageddon.