Black and viscous, bound to cure blue lethargy
Sugar-plum petroleum for energy
Tightrope-balanced payments need a small reprieve
Oh, please believe we want to be
In North Sea Oil
New-found wealth sits on the shelf of yesterday
Hot-air balloon, inflation soon will make you pay
Riggers rig and diggers dig their shallow grave
But we'll be saved and what we crave
In North Sea Oil
Prices boom in Aberdeen and London Town
Ten more years to lay the fears, erase the frown
Before we are all nuclear, the better way!
Oh, let us pray: we want to stay
In North Sea Oil
Sugar-plum petroleum for energy
Tightrope-balanced payments need a small reprieve
Oh, please believe we want to be
In North Sea Oil
New-found wealth sits on the shelf of yesterday
Hot-air balloon, inflation soon will make you pay
Riggers rig and diggers dig their shallow grave
But we'll be saved and what we crave
In North Sea Oil
Prices boom in Aberdeen and London Town
Ten more years to lay the fears, erase the frown
Before we are all nuclear, the better way!
Oh, let us pray: we want to stay
In North Sea Oil
Contributed by Federico Mina - 2022/3/6 - 11:40
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Concept album dalle tematiche piuttosto pessimistiche, legate al rapporto uomo-pianeta terra.
Album in cui il leader Ian Anderson condanna il comportamento umano, sempre alla ricerca della massima soddisfazione economica e del totale disinteresse per le conseguenze ambientali ed umanitarie. La tempesta citata nel titolo dell'album in questione é infatti la rappresentazione delle conseguenze causate da questi comportamenti umani.
La canzone con cui si apre l'album descrive la brama di ricchezza che contraddistingue l'industria del petrolio ma anche i pericoli d'inquinamento per l'ambiente. La Scozia, terra natìa di Anderson, si affaccia sul Mare del Nord.
(Da Wikipedia.)