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The track is a parable narrated by actor Dennis Hopper. The story is about the grim events that occur when a covetous people crave the jewels inside a mountain near a tribe of innocents. It follows Demon Days‘ central theme of humankind’s destructive nature and is loosely based on the war for oil.
"That came from a very naïve idea, which is: what is going to happen when they’ve taken all of the oil out of the earth? Aren’t there going to be these vast holes? Surely those holes shouldn’t be empty. Surely there is a reason why they had all of this in. It’s like bad plastic surgery, eventually it collapses." – Damon Albarn
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