Story Behind The Song

my father was a pediatric neurologist who developed a treatment for drowning victims, primary very young children, which involved putting them on ice to minimize swelling in the brain and subsequent damage. my mother was an archaelogist who found human remains on several of her digs. Tried to tie the lessons of these intelligent, compassionate endeavors into a imagistic song.

Song Description

you never know when what your parents taught you will come in handy.

Lyrics

when I was young
he took broke babies
put 'em on an ice block
they'd fallen in the water
they're heads had
got all swole' up

freeze them when they drown
it might save their brains
freeze them when they drown
the damage that remains

follow her into the desert
look under the soil
find the bones of babies
broken from their coil

frozen underground
she might find their names
frozen underground
the story of remains

what's your answer,
what's your final word?
worker bees they never
fly as free as the birds
they're gunning down the sick ones
it's getting so absurd
looking for your new fun
and breaking from the herd

we have, we have worked so hard
we carried all these stones
across a hundred yards but
we're lonelier at home

freeze us when we drown
it might save our brains
freeze us when we drown
the story of remains
the story of remains
the story of remains