What is “Red Tide” about?
“It’s a bit of a selfish concern, really. I really love wildlife, and I spend a lot of my time in the outdoors when I’m not working, so that’s important to me. One of my main hobbies is cycling, so air quality kind of becomes of critical importance. So it is a selfish thing, and it’s something I’ve written about before, on the previous album – the song ‘Second Nature’. So, again, you want to say things in a way that is not only not preachy, but also not boring. So finding the images like ‘Second Nature’ – I was really fond of that analogy of saying ‘we want our homes to be a second nature’, you know. That was, again, taking a common phrase and being able to twist it to say what you want it to say. So, with ‘Red Tide’ it was a little more adamant, because I think the time is a little more critical, and I had to be firmer about it, but still there are ways of getting at it, and to me there are jokes in there, too, that probably no one in the world will ever get, but in the first verse, w
