Hi Anonymous - Yeah, very much so! Returning to our origin, albeit, in a most extreme and abstracted fashion, is what the song's about. It was inspired by an environmental tragedy that my friend Craig witnessed. Some idiot near to where he lives in the Northwest dumped bleach into a river just for kicks and succeeded in permanently wiping out the local salmon population. We both agreed that humans have a tendency to be the worst species sometimes, and we ought to all just turn back into single-celled organisms. This is not an original notion, as fans of the band Devo will attest, but I'd like to think it's original here in its execution. Btw, i just realized that in Spanish there's the verbs 'devolver' and 'volver,' but no 'evolver' (least, not that I know of?). Noun-wise I like that the title messes a bit w that of a well known Beatles album ;-)
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I listened to a random two seconds of this song and INSTANTLY liked it.
In Spanish Devolver means to return something. Is there a significance to it being used in the title?
ty Liam!!
Hi Anonymous - Yeah, very much so! Returning to our origin, albeit, in a most extreme and abstracted fashion, is what the song's about. It was inspired by an environmental tragedy that my friend Craig witnessed. Some idiot near to where he lives in the Northwest dumped bleach into a river just for kicks and succeeded in permanently wiping out the local salmon population. We both agreed that humans have a tendency to be the worst species sometimes, and we ought to all just turn back into single-celled organisms. This is not an original notion, as fans of the band Devo will attest, but I'd like to think it's original here in its execution. Btw, i just realized that in Spanish there's the verbs 'devolver' and 'volver,' but no 'evolver' (least, not that I know of?). Noun-wise I like that the title messes a bit w that of a well known Beatles album ;-)
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